§ Mr. CHARLES DUNCANasked the Secretary of State for War whether his Department have any contract with the Hoffman Manufacturing Company, Limited, Chelmsford; and, if so, whether he will make inquiries into the wages and conditions of labour, in order to ascertain whether this firm are observing the Fair Wages Clause in their contract?
§ Mr. HAROLD BAKERIt is understood that a dispute is in progress at this firm's works on a general question, and without any special reference to an Army contract. In these circumstances it is not considered that the intervention of the War Department would lead to any useful result. The firm holds two small local orders of the value of a few shillings.