§ Colonel ASHLEYasked the Secretary Secretary whether he is aware that the following enemy alien workers, who hold exemption certificates from the Home Office, are employed making Army clothing in London at wages varying from £2 10s. to £7 10s. a week, namely, J. Aaron, B. Fallman, M. Fallman, who are Austrian subjects, and H. Lauria, A. Rabbonity, B. Steinberg, H. Stelofsky, S. Geidenberg, who are Turkisk subjects; why these enemy alien workers are permitted to draw the ordinary full rate of pay while our fighting Infantry soldier draws 1s 3d. a day; and whether he will arrange that a condition of their continued exemption from internment shall be that any moneys earned by these men above strictly necessary amounts shall be credited to some fund raised to benefit the dependants of our sailors and soldiers?
§ Sir G. CAVEThe names in the question were probably incorrectly spelt when given to the hon. and gallant Member, as some of them cannot be traced. So far as identified, they are persons who were exempted from internment on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee in 1915. Exemption from internment has 1395W never been made conditional on submitting to deductions from wages. These cases will be reviewed by the Advisory Committee recently appointed.