§ Sir CLEMENT KINLOCH - COOKEasked whether the masons of the engineer managers' department, Keyham Factory, are entitled to the sliding scale of pay granted some little time back to the civil engineers' department; and, if not, can he explain, seeing the Order stated that all masons employed on furnace work were so entitled, why the masons of the engineer managers' department, Keyham Factory, have been excluded, in view of the fact that these men are mostly employed on furnace and building work?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe Admiralty Order referred to did not contain any such stipulation as is alleged. The rate for bricklayers in the engineer managers' department corresponds with the normal rate of the scale for bricklayers and masons in the works department, the former of whom, it has been ascertained, are engaged chiefly upon brickwork of buildings, and the latter upon stonework. There is not such a large range of bricklayers' work of2660W a specially skilled nature in the engineering department as in the works department and it is therefore not considered necessary to apply the higher and special rates of the works department scale generally to the men of this trade in the engineering department.