§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny)To ask the Postmaster General whether, in view of the fact that successive Post-masters General have declared that postal employees have the right to form defensive organisations, he will state if members of the Postal Telegraph Service who are also members of the Postal Telegraph Clerks' Association have the right to obtain the assistance of the officials of that Union at the time or during the progress of a case between the individual telegraphist and his superior officer, on matters affecting his emoluments or conditions of service.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) There is no objection to such assistance being sought, provided that official documents are not made public.