§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether, seeing that the staff of the Post Office have been informed repeatedly by Ministerial statements in this House that they possess the rights of combination in the same measure as those possessed by ordinary workpeople, he will institute inquiries into the treatment of the local secretary of the Telegraph Clerks' Association at Portadown by the postmaster since he became the secretary of his branch.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Lord STANLEY,) Lancashire, WesthoughtonI will inquire into the matter.