§ Captain Markhamasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that men of the 155th Railway Workshops Company, Royal Engineers, have recently been transferred to Class W Reserve, and ordered to take up work at Derby, Wolverton and other railway centres where there is already insufficient work for existing staffs; and whether he proposes to recall any of these men for active military duties?
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§ Mr. EdenOn its return from France, the unit in question was not immediately required for military purposes, and it was agreed that men of the unit who had previously been in the employ of the railway companies should be temporarily released, provided that the railway companies required their services and they themselves were willing. My hon. and gallant Friend may rest assured that the skilled labour thus made available is needed and is being fully employed.