§ Captain PLUGGEasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether, in following the example of the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation to increase wage rates by 2s. a week, the Admiralty will apply the increase to all employés in Admiralty establishments irrespective of grade or trade?
Lord STANLEYIt is not possible to undertake that any increase in wages, which might be given to industrial employés in His Majesty's Dockyards following increases in the outside shipbuilding and engineering industries, would be applied irrespective of grade or trade, as the existing rates of pay of the various grades would obviously have to be considered in relation to those paid to corresponding grades of workpeople in the outside industries.