The Government postal runners who carry mails at a trotting pace for several miles a day, often making two trips in 24 hours, are paid the following salaries in the different provinces of your Indian Empire: Bengal 1913, R7.75 a month, $2.58 Behar and Orissa " 6.33 " 2.10 United Provinces " 6.25 " 2.08 Panjab and N.W.F " 7.75 " 2.58 Bombay " 7.5 " 2.35 Central Provinces " 7. " 2.33 Madras " 7.11 " 2.40 (The equivalents in dollars are approximate.) Postmen who are supposed to be literate, received from R10 to R16 a month (_i. e._, from $3.33 to $5.33 a month) in the different provinces in 1913. The scale of wages allowed to unskilled labor in the railway yards of Mirzapore and Cawnpore (U. P.) is given between R5 to R6 per month (_i. e._, less than $2.00). These are figures of 1914. In the canal foundry and workshop at Roorkee (U. P.) the daily wage in 1916 was only 4 annas a day (_i. e._, 8 cents). In the Cawnpore saddlery establishment, the bullock drivers, the sweepers and the _Bhishties_ received only R5 and R6 a month (_i. e._, less than 8s. or $2.00); the lascars from R6 to R7 (_i. e._, $2.00 to $2.33). In the woolen mills in Northern India unskilled labor was paid at R8.12 (_i. e._, less than $3.00) a month in 1914. These are the rates allowed in big cities. For other big cities the rates may, in some cases, be somewhat better, but in small rural towns and villages, they are considerably less. Does the Indian laborer, considering his standard of life, the size of his family and the requirements of decency, get a living wage? I am sure that a humane inquirer, not so much interested in the good name of the Government as in truth, will have no hesitation in answering the question in the negative. Any increase in wages has to be divided over the average strength of a family, which will show how disproportionate the increase in wages is to the increase in prices. In a family of five with one or two earning hands the increase in wages is two-fold at the most. While the increase in the cost of living by the increase in prices is five-fold. Your Official Report writers always ignore this important consideration. As for the housing conditions in which Indian workmen live, let me present to you the following testimony from a recent issue of the _Times of India_, Bombay (quoted in the London _Times_, June, 1917):