§ Mr. FOREMANasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether there is any reason for withholding the Civil Service war bonus from the foremen and timekeepers in the Departments of the Office of Works in view of the fact that the award was intended to apply to un-established as well as established officers of this class?
§ Mr. PARKERThe pay of foremen, timekeepers,. and assistant timekeepers has hitherto been augmented by a special war bonus regulated in such a way as to preserve the relation which existed before the War between the wages of these grades and of the workmen they supervise. The question of increasing this bonus or of substituting for it the general Civil Service war bonus is now under consideration.
§ Mr. FOREMANasked the First Commissioner of Works the percentage of increase of the consolidated rates of pay of the foremen and timekeepers in his Department since the commencement of the War, and how this percentage compares with that granted to the men whom they supervise?
§ Mr. PARKERThe percentage of increase for foremen at the mean of the scale is 97.3 and for timekeepers 84.3. The average increase in the case of workmen is 123 per cent.