Have arrangements been made to ensure fair wages and fair conditions of labour on the work carried out under the Convention regulating the transit of the mineral oils of the Iraq Petroleum Company through the territory of Palestine? Mr. David Adams (Labour) asked the Colonial Secretary in the House of Commons to-day, and if so, would wages and conditions be similar to those in force on the Haifa Harbour construction.
Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, the Colonial Secretary, said in his reply that the Company had given the Government a formal assurance that they would observe fair conditions of labour on the execution of all contracts carried out under the Convention. He was not yet in possession of information as to these conditions of labour, but the matter was engaging the attention of the Palestine High Commissioner with reference to the assurances given by the Company.
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