A DOCKYARD DISMISSAL

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 351, 4 February 1937, Page 5

A DOCKYARD DISMISSAL

CASUAL FITTER.

EX-SIGNALLER

Not Dismissed On War Office Information.

Press Association—Copyright. Received 1. p.m.

London, Feb. "3. Mr Gallacher (Labour) in the House of Commons, asked on whose instructions plain clothes police were called to Unicorn Gate; at Portsmouth dockyard on January 27 to confiscate leaflets relating to the recent dismissals at Sheerness and Devonport which were being distrulbuted there. Sir Samuel Hoare replied that the local authodities, who were informed of the intention to distribute leaflets, the dissemination of which would be contrary to regulations, drew the attention of the Portsmouth City police who were responsible for the action.

In reply to a question by Mr. John Jagger, why a man H. S. R. Easthope of the Army Signal Corps' at Devonport, was> dismissed without reason after 12 years service . and later dismissed from the dockyard after only one week’s employment, Sir Samuel Hoare said that Easthope was employed at the dockyard for a particular job which ended after a iveek. He added that Easthope was not dismissed from the dockyard, where he was engaged on a casual basis as a fitter, as a result of anw communications 1 from the war office. Mr. Jagger said that he would raise the subject again at the earliest possible moment.