§ Captain Pluggeasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, in view of the recent decision to increase the bonus paid to workers in His Majesty's dockyards to enable them to meet the increased cost of living, he will also consider granting a similar increase to women employed in the dockyards?
§ Captain A. HudsonThe increases in the wages of male dockyard workers, referred to by my hon. and gallant Friend, were made in pursuance of the Government's undertaking to observe, in the regulation of the wages of industrial employés, the principles of the Fair Wages Resolution of the House of Commons. Claims for increases in the pay of women industrial workers will similarly be dealt with in accordance with the principles of that resolution, and an increase of 2s. per week has already been made since the outbreak of war, to certain women workers.