Mr Charles White: 21. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that there is great anxiety amongst officers of the Territorial Force as to the terms of a recent Army Order, whereby gratuities are to be paid on substantive or temporary rank, and not on acting rank, and specially in view of the fact that in February, 1917, temporary rank in the Territorial Force was abolished, and that many...
Mr Charles White: 74. asked the Minister of Labour whether any provision has been made yet for the assistance of apprentices who have lost several years of training owing to the fact that they have been serving in His Majesty's forces?
Mr Charles White: I am a new Member, and I certainly cannot aspire to the eloquence or verbosity one hears from both sides of the House. I am an uncompromising Radical and shall find myself in most Divisions in the Lobby with the Labour party. I started life to work at ten years of age at one shilling per week. In a year it was increased by another shilling, and so on to sixteen years of age, so that I claim...
Mr Charles White: 34. asked the Secretary for War whether he is aware that dissatisfaction exists amongst men serving in His Majesty's Forces, and also amongst discharged men, in respect to the amounts debited or credited to them in respect of pay; and whether he will immediately give instructions that in future every soldier, whether on home or foreign service, shall be provided with a pay book in which the...
Mr Charles White: 35. asked whether the promise to issue quarterly statements of accounts to all men in His Majesty's Forces is now in operation?
Mr Charles White: 51. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government are prepared, in view of thefact that the necessities of life have increased in price to the extent of 130 per cent., to recommend an immediate increase of 2s. 6d. a week to old age pensioners pending the Report of the Committee which it is proposed to appoint?
Mr Charles White: Is the hon. Gentleman aware that many old age pensioners are on the verge of starvation on 7s. 6d. per week?
Mr Charles White: May I ask who are the Sugar Beet Society, how much of this £51,000 was working capital, and how much was used for the management of the estate?
Mr Charles White: I should like to ask how many officers and how many men who are not officers are receiving the advantages of this higher education, and what is the meaning of the phrase "men of like standing." Why is that qualification put in? I should be very pleased to support a Vote of double this amount, but I want to know just the position and just how the selection is made?
Mr Charles White: My object in raising the question was to see that as far as possible the money went only to those men who cannot help themselves.
Mr Charles White: May I call attention to the fact that there are not forty Members present in the House while we are discussing this very important question?
Mr Charles White: I want emphatically to endorse practically all that has been said from these benches with regard to de-moblisation and leave which should have been granted to soldiers before now, but which has not been granted. I refer especially to men serving in Egypt, Palestine, Salonika, Mesopotamia, and India. It is the private Member of Parliament, and especially the new Member of Parliament, who gets...
Mr Charles White: 16. asked the Secretary for War whether he is aware that many Englishmen are still serving in different theatres of war who came over at their own expense from the Colonies and joined English regiments in the first months of the War; whether he is aware that Colonial troops who came over a long time after have been demobilised some time; and whether he will at once inquire into the case of...
Mr Charles White: 71. asked whether in the deliberations of the Committee of Inquiry into Police Pay, Pensions, and Conditions of Service, men of all ranks will be allowed to give evidence personally, and not through a superior officer?
Mr Charles White: 72. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will consider the desirability of amending the existing Regulations so as to allow members of all grades of the police force to become members of registered social or political clubs in the same manner that their superior officers are; and whether any Regulation exists which prevents an inspector, sergeant, or constable...
Mr Charles White: I will not indulge in wild rhodomontade, but give a concrete instance of how this question affects myself. I have to pay £66 10s. a year for a season ticket, which is third-class. At the time of my nomination I was receiving £300 from the Ministry of Food, but I was ordered to give it up at a moment's notice at the time I was nominated. As a consequence, from 1st December to 5th February I...
Mr Charles White: Very humble mine are.
Mr Charles White: 11. asked the Pensions Minister whether he has now inquired into circumstances relating to the pension to the widow of Lance-Corporal William Tenniswood, No. 501153, of the Isle of Wight Territorial Section of the Royal Engineers, who was killed on active service on the 17th May last; whether he is aware that this woman received full separation allowance for herself and three children up to...
Mr Charles White: Will that be paid up to 18th November last?
Mr Charles White: The date is in the question.
