§ MR. BELL (Derby)To ask the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the repeated assurances made to postal telegraphists that they have perfect freedom with reference to joining trade 1226 unions, and that officials of the Postal Telegraph Clerks' Association are not treated differently to others, he will direct that an investigation be made into the administration of the telegraph service at Hanley with a view to preventing the treatment meted out to members of the Postal Telegraph Clerks' Association.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) I have had special inquiry made on the subject, and I am satisfied that, in the treatment of the officers of the telegraph staff at Hanley, no difference whatever is made between those who are members of the Postal Telegraph Clerks' Association and those who are not.