§ 23. Mr. HOPKINSasked the Secretary of State for War if he will explain wiry highly-skilled technical men are retained in labour battalions in this country when pay and domestic allowances cost the tax payer £6 a week and the taxpayer is at the same time paying doles to unskilled men who are out of work?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLThere is only one labour battalion in this country, and this is being disbanded. The strength is 299 other ranks, all of whom are awaiting discharge.