§ Mr. CHURCHILLasked the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence whether he has yet been in consultation with the trade unions upon the expansion of the 1210W supply of skilled labour for the execution of the rearmament programmes approved by Parliament?
§ Sir T. INSKIPIn my reply on the 25th March to the hon. Member for Doncaster (Mr. Short) I stated that the employers' and workpeople's organisations in the industries concerned with the defence programme would no doubt wish to discuss through their joint machinery any problem in which they were mutually concerned and that they might be relied upon to seek consultation with the Government, either directly or through their central organisations when it appeared to them to be desirable. As my right hon. Friend is aware, there is in each of these industries joint negotiating machinery of an effective character, and further experience has satisfied me that this is being successfully used in the settlement of the various questions arising in conection with the Government programme.