§ 71. Mr. GILBERTasked the Minister of Munitions whether he is aware that the 1057 extension of war bonuses to temporary Government employés, recommended by the Conciliation Arbitration Board for Government Employés in the award of 17th December, 1917, has not been made to the temporary staff of the Ministry of Munitions; whether an increase of salary Amounting to less than such war bonuses is to be substituted in the case of the temporary staff; and whether, as this involves hardship to a large staff in his Department, he will take steps to have the above award paid in his Department the same as it is carried out in other Departments?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe Conciliation and Arbitration Board awarded an increase of war bonus only to certain temporary classes engaged at the normal Treasury rates. These awards did not apply to the Ministry of Munitions staff, whose rates were fixed on a different basis; but the Treasury approved certain increases to that staff in so far as their rates of pay were not already equivalent to the normal Treasury rates plus the increased war bonus. In this way the rates of pay in all Departments are now, as far as practicable, uniform, and I need hardly say that such uniformity seems to me most desirable.