§ 78. Mr. Jaggerasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the three organisations representing ex-Service messengers, paper keepers, record keepers, and press keepers wrote to him in June, and again on 12th July, asking that an interview be granted them in order that they might have an opportunity of pressing the claims of their members; and whether he can see his way to grant the interview at an early date?
§ The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Lieut.-Colonel Colville)The organisations concerned were informed on 23rd July that discussions were proceeding through the machinery of the National Whitley Council with regard to a claim for the extension of the area of establishment in the Civil Service and to the possibility of removing any anomalies arising from the existing measure of establishment. It was added that in these circumstances no useful purpose would be served for independent discussions relating to a part of the main issue to be carried on concurrently.