HC Deb 07 March 1916 vol 80 c1398W
Mr. FIELD

asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that dissatisfaction exists amongst the Post Office clerks in Ireland; and whether he will make inquiries with a view to satisfy their complaint?

Mr. JOSEPH PEASE

I have received resolutions passed at a recent conference of Irish Post Office clerks. Among other things the conference is dissatisfied with recommendations of the recent Select Committee of the House of Commons upon Post Office Servants, with the arrangements for leasing private wires to newspapers, with the growth of female labour during the War, with the method of recruiting the service, with the surveying system, with censorship arrangements, and with the failure to place the Irish Post Office "under a proper system of democratic Irish control." I am afraid no inquiries that I could make would be likely to satisfy their complaints.