§ Mr. MORGAN JONESasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company, Limited, which is on the list of Government contractors and has undertaken to observe the Fair Wages Clause usually inserted in Government contracts, in seeking to enforce a rate of wages considerably lower than the nearest district rate, has locked out its employés in the engineering works; and whether the Government will take steps to get this 917W firm removed from the list of its contractors until it has observed the Fair Wages Clause referred to?
§ Major BOYD-CARPENTERI have been asked to reply. I understand that the Admiralty has placed contracts with the firm, and if the hon. Member will supply that Department with particulars of the alleged breach of the Fair Wages Clause the matter will be inquired into.