§ MR. BOTTOMLEY (Hackney, S.)To ask the Postmaster-General under what circumstances he has refused to recognise officially the duly-constituted association of Post Office writers, seeing that he has announced to the staff generally his readiness to recognise any duly-constituted organisation or federation of postal servants, and has already granted that privilege, not only to the service associations generally, but, in the case of the London postmen, 43 to two distinct organisations; and whether he is prepared to reconsider his decision, with a view to removing the disabilities under which the members of the Writers Association now labour.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) The officers to whom the hon. Member refers are members of the general class or sorters employed temporarily on writing duties, and, as I have already informed them, I am not prepared to recognise more than one association as representing the class to which they belong.