§ Mr. BYRNEasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if he is aware that the 4s. war increase granted to the Army Ordnance Department workers, Island Bridge, was not paid from the same date as to other ordnance depots awarded by the Committee on Production from the 10th May last; and if he will give instructions for these workers to be paid the award from the above date?
§ Mr. FORSTERThe awards of the Committee on Production applying to certain ordnance depots run from different dates. There has been no award of the Committee to ordnance depôts generally, or to Island Bridge in particular. The advance there given was given in the ordinary course of 2327W administration, and the date was determined on the usual lines. I am not prepared to carry it further back.
§ Mr. BYRNEasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office when the employés in the main supply, Kingsbridge, Dublin, and the barrack labourers, Dublin, are to be paid the increase of 4s. of 1st August, 1918, and paid out to other employés, namely, the Army Ordnance Department, Dublin, so as to make all working under the same Schedule equal?
§ Mr. FORSTERThe 4s. advance given in the Army Ordnance Department is the special advance referred to in the hon. Member's preceding question to-day, and is not applicable in other Departments. The rates of wages of the barrack labourers and of workmen employed in the main supply depot are, however, already under consideration, and I will inform the hon. Member of the result in due course.