Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 25 July 1935.
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that temporary non-service clerks in the employment exchange service are rendered immune from discharge when raised to a higher grade; and whether, as the protection thus afforded to non-service men is contrary to the spirit of the recent agreement that non-service temporary clerks should be discharged before ex-service men, he will issue instructions that non-service temporary clerks, irrespective of grade, should in cases of redundancy stand first for discharge?