§ Dr. M'DONALDasked the Minister of Transport if he is aware that chief foremen of the Cheshire Lines Committee, Great Western Railway, and London and North Western Railway are graded 1, while the chief foreman of the Great Central Railway, Birkenhead, is graded 3; and could he furnish the tonnage handled by these respective companies in order to explain this apparent anomaly?
§ Sir E. GEDDESI am not aware of the circumstances referred to in this question, but I would point out that if the chief foremen, as I assume they do, come within the scope of an agreement entered into by the railway companies and the railwaymen's unions in April, 1920, as to male supervisory staff, that agreement provided machinery for dealing with appeals from men dissatisfied with their classification.