§ MR. CONYBEARE (Cornwall, Camborne)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether his attention has been called to a paragraph in the Evening News and Post, in which it is stated that, while two postmen were walking home on Friday night last, one of them was seized by the throat by an overseer of the Eastern District Post Office, with the object of turning down the man's collar in order to get his number; whether he is aware that the man assaulted was suspected of attending the Postmen's Union meetings, and that this overseer had been shadowing him all the evening in order to report him for punishment; and whether the Post Office Authorities have power to engage overseers on such work?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. RAIKES,) University of CambridgeSo far as I have been able to ascertain, the statement in the paragraph to which the hon. Member refers is absolutely without foundation. I am not aware that any one was assaulted, or that any one, to use the hon. Member's words, was shadowed, and think it in the highest degree improbable.