Oral Answers to Questions — Mercantile Marine. – in the House of Commons at on 30 January 1940.
Mr John Parker
, Romford
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that many air-raid precautions workers are members of trade unions to which other local government employes belong, and that some local authorities are trying to prevent such membership; and whether he will make it clear that membership of these unions is not a bar to air-raid precautions service?
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security (Mr. Mebane):
The air-raid precautions services include many members of trade unions and I am not aware that any local authorities are seeking to prohibit such membership. Membership of a trade union is certainly not a bar to enrolment in the services.
A group of workers who have united to promote their common interests.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
A group of workers who have united to promote their common interests.
