CONTROL OF EMPLOYMENT (CIVIL SERVICE) ORDER Memorandum by the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War.

-2- 5. It may be argued that as we already suffer handicaps in respect of some of our temporary staff (in the Admiralty two or three hundred individuals directed under Regulation 58A and in the case of the War Office the number who are employed in industrial establishments scheduled under the Essential Work Order) we cannot lose anything by the extension of the practice. So far as the Admiralty is concerned the answer is that a condition of affairs which can be tolerated in respect of two or three hundred individuals in a large Department is not tolerable when it applies to 30,000 persons or three-quarters of the total civil staff, of the Admiralty alone.