Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 25 July 1935.
Temporary clerks are not rendered immune from discharge when raised to a higher grade, but it has never been the practice to regard them as liable to discharge owing to redundancy in a lower grade. My right hon. Friend is afraid that he cannot agree with my hon. and gallant Friend that a change in this practice is in any way required by the recent agreement to which he refers.