§ MR. W. T. WILSON (Lancashire, Westhoughton)To ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that when joiners are discharged from the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke a large and undue proportion of those discharged are men who are members of a trade union, the reason being given that they will receive 10s. per week from their trade society, whilst those that do not belong to a society will get nothing; and whether he will take steps to put a stop to this treatment of workmen who belong to a trade union.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) No joiners have been discharged at Pembroke Dock during the last three years. The selection of the joiners who were discharged in 1904–5 was determined according to service and capability, and, so far as can be ascertained, there is nothing to support the suggestion that membership of a trade union or otherwise was taken into consideration.