§ Mr. SNELLasked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he is aware that examiners employed in the Inspection of Naval Ordnance Department at Woolwich Arsenal are being paid at a lower rate than men who are doing similar work in the ordnance [...]ries; that there are further inequalities in regard to sick pay; and will he consider the possibility of bringing the conditions under which men are employed in the inspection of naval ordnance into harmony with those prevailing in the ordnance factories?
Mr. DAVIDSONThe pay and conditions of service of the examiners and other workmen employed under the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance are based on those prevailing in the Royal Dockyards for similar classes of men. Only some of the men employed in the Inspection Department are serving at Woolwich, and it would lead to serious administrative difficulties elsewhere if their conditions of service were based on those obtaining in the ordnance factories.