§ Mr. SNOWDENasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if men belonging to the mechanical transport section of the Army who have joined since the 10th November, 1915, and who were signed on at 6s. per day, have now been informed that the rate will be altered, and that they will have to sign new forms redicing the rate to 2s. 4d. a day; and if he will take steps at once to prevent the Army authorities for committing such a breach of contract?
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§ Mr. FORSTERRecruiting for mechanical transport drivers at 6s. per diem closed on 10th November, 1915, and all men enlisted after that date are only entitled to ordinary rates of pay. A number of men enlisted after that date have been paid 6s. per diem erroneously, and in these cases the 6s. has been allowed up to the date on which the error was discovered, no recovery being made from the men of the past erroneous issue of the special rate. In future these men will be held to serve at the ordinary rates of pay, which they should have drawn from the commencement.