COLONEL BOWLESTo ask the; Financial Secretary to the War Office if he will state the number of men employed at the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield who have not earned 22s. a week at piece work during the last six weeks; and whether the orders for the machine gun department are likely to be such as will keep the hands employed during the present year.
(Answered by Mr. Bromley Davenport.) The number of men generally employed on piece work who have not earned 22s. a week on piece work at Enfield during the past six weeks is 152. The orders for machine guns are very much reduced, and will involve the discharge of about seventy men.