MR. T. F. RICHARDSI beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that men are employed doing postmen's work on Sundays at Bournville and are only paid 4d. per hour; and whether he will take steps to see that proper payment is made for these duties.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. SYDNEY BUXTON, Tower Hamlets, Poplar)The established and auxiliary postmen at Bournville are paid at the authorised scale rates for Sunday duty which, at their present wages, are 9d. an hour and 8d. an hour respectively, and the man who is employed on alternate Sundays as substitute for the established postman is paid 2s. for a duty of three and a quarter hours. On Sunday the 24th ultimo it was necessary to obtain assistance to deliver a large batch of election circulars, and the ordinary rate authorised for outdoor Sunday overtime work performed by sub-postmasters' assistants, namely, Id. an hour, was paid.