Mr. J. JONESasked the Postmaster-General whether it is the practice for the Post Office authorities to require that clerks employed in sub-offices shall be paid the standard rate for the industry; whether it is the practice to insist that the conditions shall not be worse than those enjoyed by the established staff; and, if not, whether he will issue instructions that the trade union rate of wages paid by him to his organised counter-clerks and telegraphists shall be applicable to all clerks employed in sub-offices whose whole time is devoted to the transaction of Post Office, business?
§ Mr. PEASEIt is not the practice of the Post Office to intervene between sub-post-masters and their assistants except when their pay and conditions of service fall below the standard for shop assistants in the service of good employers in the same district.