HC Deb 20 November 1912 vol 44 c298W
Mr. WILLIAM THORNE

asked how many workmen have been unable to resume their former employment of the 2,299 who were evicted from the shipbuilding yards and engineering works in Belfast during the recent riots?

Mr. BIRRELL

lam informed that there are about 350 shipyard workers still out of employment in Belfast, and that about 300 left the city at the beginning of the trouble and obtained work elsewhere.