Letter from S.C. Harrison to Sir Matthew Nathan, 1 February 1916
National Archives of Ireland
<note>Miss Galway (continued.)</note> Society, Every tenter is paid according to the output<lb/>
of the looms for which he is responsible, each week<lb/>
he has to report to the Sec. of his union what looms<lb/> have been stopped or started. The tenters are mechanics<lb/> & each one is responsible for a share (about 60) of the<lb/> looms at which the women work, to see that the<lb/> machines are in order & that the cloth made is up<lb/> to standard.</p>
Miss Galway infomed me that munition work<lb/> for women was just about to be started in Belfast.<lb/> A notice was put up on Wednesday the 12.<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> January<lb/> at James Mackey & Sons factory, Springfield Road, <lb/> saying that women desiring munition work should<lb/> apply by letter only. This factory & <sic>Coombe</sic><lb/> Barbour's on the Falls Road are called 'black shops'<lb/> by the workers because they do not pay trade union<lb/> rates except perhaps to a few engineers, & on this<lb/> ground it was regretted that Government work<lb/> had been given to them. Miss Galway had<lb/> advised some of her members, who are on very short<lb/> time, to write applying for work, & said we should<lb/> hear from them in the evening what the result had<lb/> been.
<hi rend="underline">W. Greig</hi>, National Amalgamated Union of Labour—<lb/> deplored the fact that the Government work was given to<pb/>
