§ Mr. SNOWDENasked the Minister of Munitions if two women named Mrs. Allen, a war widow, and Miss Dicker have been dismissed from the shell-filling factory in Middlesex for having accepted a cup of 313 tea during working hours; if he is aware that it was formerly the practice to allow the women twenty minutes in the morning and in the afternoon for refreshments, this practice being stopped by the new manager; and, as under the present arrangements the women have in many cases to go seven hours without food, will he have an inquiry made into the provision for the welfare of the women workers at this place, and also into the complaints about the conduct of the new manager there?
§ Dr. ADDISONI will make inquiries into this matter, and communicate the result to my hon. Friend in due course.