HC Deb 03 February 1913 vol 47 cc1787-8
56. Mr. O'GRADY

asked the Post master-General whether he can now state the result of his inquiries into the wages paid and hours worked by mail van drivers in Belfast, and as to how such wages and hours compare with those of drivers in the employ of private cartage contractors in the same city?

The POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. Herbert Samuel)

I do not find that any mail van drivers in Belfast received as little as 17s. 9d. a week or worked as much as eighty hours. But since a scale of wages and hours for mail van drivers was settled with the contractors in 1910, there has been a rise in the rate of remuneration of men in similar employment, and I have therefore arranged that there shall be a similar rise in the wages of the mail drivers forthwith.