§ 28. Major HORE-BELISHAasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty why the Admiralty is adopting the practice of degrading skilled men to the status and pay of unskilled labourers in the Government establishments?
§ Mr. AMMONI cannot accept the hon. Member's description of Admiralty practice. Work as skilled labourers has been offered to and accepted by certain craftsmen who would otherwise have to be discharged. It seems to me a beneficent arrangement.
§ Major HORE-BELISHAWill the Parliamentary Secretary undertake to see that men of peculiar aptitude are not degraded in this way, because the country is hound to suffer in the end?
§ Mr. AMMONI am anxious to see that men of peculiar aptitude are not placed amongst the unemployed.
§ Mr. W. THORNEIf these men are put on unskilled work, are the unskilled men to be discharged?
§ Mr. HARMSWORTHDoes the hon. Member not consider it more important to keep skilled men on rather than unskilled men?