Страница - 140Страница - 142- Lacon, telegraphist at Birmingham, Case of, [195]-[196]
- Laissez-faire, [12];
- Alleged breakdown of, [36]-[56];
- a better policy for the public interest than State intervention, [391]
- Lawson, H. L. W., on interference of members of Parliament in dismissals from service, [252];
- Learners, Promotion of, [291]
- Leeds, Extension of service in, [77]-[78]
- Leeman, G., cross-questions Mr. Scudamore, [65]-[66n], [68n], [92];
- on Mr. Scudamore’s estimates of cost of reversionary rights of railways, [68]-[69], [76]
- Letter sorters, Scale of wages for, [349]-[350]
- Letter sent, Scudamore’s misleading comparison of telegrams with, [52]-[53]
- Liberal Party supported demands of civil servants, [8]-[9]
- Lickfold, J. R., on medical certificates, [356]-[358]
- Lingen, Lord R. R. W., on difficulties in public departments due to triennial change of Government, [256]-[257];
- on trouble to secure efficiency, [272]
- Log-rolling by members of House of Commons, [10]-[11]
- London and Provincial Telegraph Company, [40];
- rates charged by, [40];
- Government purchase of, [58]
- London Central Telegraph Office, Employees not drawn from, [169]-[170]
- London District Telegraph Company unsuccessful as result of low rates charged, [33]-[35];
- London local telegraph system enlarged, [77]
- London Trades Council, Complaints from, [159]
- Lowe, Robert, on the immense price paid, [74]-[75];
- division of the service under, [271]
- McDonald, G., on grievances of news distributors, [355]
- Macdonald, J. A. M., questions Mr. Gladstone on Civil Service pressure, [149];
- demands a Select Committee, [150];
- motion for, lost, [151]
- M’Dougall, ——, promoted by merit, [283]-[284]
- MacIver, David, on complaints of telegraphists, [131]-[132]
- Maddison, F., on a non-official committee, [191]
- Magnetic Telegraph Company, [39]-[40]
- Malingerers’ grievance, J. R. Lickfold on the, [357];
- Manchester, Extension of service in, [78]
- Manners, Lord John, on Glasgow postmasters’ mistake, [269]-[270]
- Mears, ——, Case of, [160]
- Member of Parliament, Should interference of, in behalf of public employee, lead to dismissal? [248];
- influence of, may annul power of dismissal in public departments, [251]
- Members of House of Commons intervene in cases of discipline, [302]-[322]
- Members of Parliament and the rank and file, [303]
- Mercer, ——, Interference for, [297]
- Merchants, General, used telegraphs little, [16]
- Messages, Annual increase in, [16];
- relating to personal affairs an important part of traffic [17]-[18];
- annual increase of, in United Kingdom, [51];
- Mr. Scudamore’s estimated increase of, [83]-[84];
- fully realized [87];
- traffic of, [104];
- increase in number of, [110], [111];
- sent to individual newspapers, [122n];
- annual loss on newspaper, [119]-[120], [122], [123];
- delivered to newspapers, [124n];
- remained nearly stationary, [153n];
- increase of, [181]
- Mileage of telegraph lines in United Kingdom, [43]-[44], [45n];
- of extension, [80], [81n];
- increase of, through reduction of tariff, [108]
- Mitford, F., Power of dismissal in public departments may be annulled by pressure from individual members of Parliament, [251]
- Money order issuing Post Office, A telegraph office promised at every, [20]
- Money order post offices and telegraph facilities compared, [48]
- Monk, Charles James, introduced and carried Bill to enfranchise revenue officers, [6], [96];
- Mr. Gladstone on the Bill, [6]-[7]
- Morgan, ——, Case of, [290]
- Morley, Arnold, Postmaster General, [149];
- Mowatt, Sir F., member of Tweedmouth Committee, [163], [165], [177]
- Municipalities and National Government as violators of permanent interests of the people, [391]-[392]
- Murphy, Dennis, Interference for, [297]
- Murray, Sir George H., on change in attitude of House of Commons on expenditures, [366], [385]
- Nannetti, J. P., questions promotion of two female telegraphists, [293]-[295];
- National Expenditure, Select Committee on, Evidence before in 1892, on intervention of House of Commons in Departments of State, [363]
- National Joint Committee of the Postal Association, Resolution of, against the Bradford Committee, [212]
- National Telephone Company, Obstacles to development by, [388]-[389]
- National Union of Teachers, brings influence against inspectors, [321]
- Nationalization of the telegraphs, [4];
- Newnes, Sir G., Intervention by, [298]
- News distributors complain about Saturday holiday, [352]-[353];
- other grievances laid before Tweedmouth Committee, [355]-[356]
- Newspaper sorters, No work for first class, since 1886, [258]-[259]
- Newspapers, Subscription charges to, for press bureau, [113]-[115];
- Nicholson, A. S., on grievances of telegraphists, [334]-[335]
- Non-paying telegraph offices, Guarantees required for, [99], [100]-[101];
- Norfolk-Hanbury Committee recommended further concessions, [179]-[180];
- work done by, [197];
- did not give satisfaction, [218];
- increased expenses from, [221]
- Norfolk-Hanbury compromise, [359]
- North, A. W., Grievance of, as to female telegraphist, [356]
- North, Lord Frederick, ordered civil servants to support the Government, [185]
- Northcote, Sir Stafford, Disillusionment of, [100]
- Norton, Capt. C. W., an aggressive champion of civil servants, [11];
- on technical examination of telegraphists, [190];
- moves a reduction in expenses, [201];
- charges Government with breach of faith, [201]-[202];
- motion lost, [205];
- on rights of postal servants as voters, [211]-[212];
- moved reduction of Post Office Vote, [233];
- on Civil Service agitation, [233]-[234];
- motion lost, [236];
- vote, [236n];
- made a Junior Lord of the Treasury, [237];
- intervention by, [296];
- for senior telegraphists, [338], [339]
- O’Brien, P., Intervention by, [297]-[298];
- O’Connor, James, Intervention by, [353]
- Official documents, List of, used as authorities, [14n]
- Operators, Increase in number of, to meet reduction of tariff, [108]
- Overseers in postal service, Relief from duty of, [352]
- Oxford telegraph clerks secure intervention against dual duty, [346]-[347]
- Palmer, G. W., intervened for learners punished for carelessness, [315]
- Parliament warned against Government’s estimates, [65]-[69], [76];
- enacted Purchase Bill, [72];
- responsible for telegraph deficits, [91]-[92];
- reduced tariff on telegrams, [91];
- not competent to judge, [188]-[189];
- has never an influence for economy, [320].
- See also House of Commons
- Parliamentary committees, Titles of reports of, [14n]
- Parliamentary Secretary, Duties of the, [361]-[362]
- Parties, Both political, committed to nationalization, [4]
- Party, Neither, in open alliance with civil servants, [7]
- Patey, C. H. B., on guaranteed offices, [102];
- Penny postage precedent, cited by Mr. Scudamore, [82]-[83];
- Pensioners, Retired, recalled to service, [340];
- protest against before Tweedmouth Committee, [340]
- Pension system no remedy for getting rid of incompetents, [256]
- Pensions, State’s system of, contrasted with system of London and North Western Railway, [264]
- Pensions to the incompetent, Cost of, [263]
- Permanent Secretary, Duties of the, [363]
- Personal bribery replaced by class bribery, [246]
- Playfair, Sir Lyon, Testimony of, before Royal Commission on Civil Establishments, [139]-[140];
- Playfair Commission, Scale of wages for government clerks recommended by, [130]
- Pledge contained in circular issued by the Fawcett Association, [148n]
- Plummer, Sir W. R., intervenes for retirements, [338]-[339]
- Political influence, Effect of, on Post Office administration, [305]-[306]
- Political pressure not all in one direction, [138];
- Politics forces the Government’s hand, [58]-[59]
- Post Office, The, a revenue department, [166];
- denied by A. K. Rollit, [174];
- technical work of the, [188];
- no part of its duty to make a profit, [205];
- net revenue from, [220];
- expenses increased, [221]
- Post Office Department, Complaint of stagnation of promotion in, [152];
- Tweedmouth Committee on, [171];
- apparent net profits of, [227n];
- compelled to deal leniently with violators of rules, [306]-[320]
- Post Office employees denied by the Conservative Ministry a Select Committee on their pay and position, [8];
- vote with Liberals, [9];
- and secure the Committee, [9];
- press House of Commons for increase of wages and salaries, [127]-[164];
- Circular of, objected to by Lord Stanley, [223]
- Post Office officials can only recommend for promotion, [276]
- Post Office Servants, Select Committee on, [359]
- Postal clerks and telegraphists, Comparative chances for promotion of, [344]-[345];
- Bradford Committee on, [348]
- Postal servants, Are, fairly paid, [217];
- expenditure demands of, called for, [221];
- not satisfied with Bradford Committees’ recommendations, [221], [229];
- demands were “blackmail” and “blood-sucking,” [231]-[232], [233];
- largely in hands of agitators, [238]-[240];
- and the general election of 1906, [240]-[241]
- Postal Telegraph Clerks’ Association, a powerful political organization, [9];
- Postal telegraph offices, Increase of, [101];
- Postmaster General, Concessions made by, [10];
- and the party following, [277];
- limitations of power of, to promote or to remove, [286]-[287];
- interviewed first in cases of intervention by a member of Parliament, [304]
- Postmasters general, Anxieties of, regarding promotions, [279], [280], [306]
- Postmasters, Demands of, from Tweedmouth Committee, [288];
- salaries of, and volume of business, [288]
- Postmen, W. C. Steadman on grievances of the, [194]-[195];
- Thos. Bayley asks for a Committee on, [198]
- Postmen, London, Abolition of classification of, [341]-[242]
- Preece, W. H., on ignorance of telegraphers, [157];
- offers increased pay for technical knowledge, [270]
- Press Bureau maintained by telegraph companies, [113];
- Press hampers heads of departments in matter of promotions, [268]
- Price, R. J., sought to intervene in House in a case of promotion, [280]
- Private enterprise, Adequate results of, [41]-[42]
- Private enterprise in telegraphy broken down, [36], [37];
- Mr. Scudamore’s arguments to prove, [45];
- his errors show his failure, [49]
- Probationers, Difficult to dismiss, [260]
- Problem of government, The, and its solution, [12]
- Promotion, Employees claim a vested right to, [153];
- misleading table of, [154], [158];
- Tweedmouth Committee, on, [170]-[172];
- Bradford Committee on, [230];
- E. Graves on preference for, [270];
- by routine the real evil, [27], [274];
- tact and honesty needed in, [272];
- selection of officers for, an invidious task, [306];
- right to fix rate of, claimed, [335]-[336]
- Promotion by merit hardly takes place, [274];
- recommended by the Royal Commission, [275];
- regulations for, [276n];
- political element in, [277];
- anxieties of postmasters general regarding, [279];
- cases of, cited, [279]-[285];
- opposed by rank and file, [289];
- complaints against, [289]-[301]
- Promotion by seniority the great evil, [274];
- demand for, widely established, [381]
- Promotions revoked through pressure from members, [283];
- secured for men reported as “not qualified” by influence of C. Bradlaugh, [283]-[285]
- Prussia, Effect of reduced rates on increase of messages in, [17], [18]
- Public interest promoted by activities of speculator and dividend seeker, 37
- Public opinion, Change of, in matters of public expenditure, [363]-[366];
- no body of intelligent and disinterested, [391]
- Public ownership a parasite, [37]
- Public service, British, an attractive haven of refuge, [10]-[11];
- “Public Service” messages, Allowance for value of, [26]-[27]
- Purchase by the State, Threat of, arrested extensions, [41]
- Purchase of the telegraphs, [57]-[76];
- Bill introduced for, [57];
- estimated price, [58];
- provisions of Bill, [59];
- the Economist on, [61];
- Scudamore on the terms of, [62];
- Hunt on, [63];
- amount asked for, [73];
- Robert Lowe on government monopoly, [74]-[75]
- Purchase price of telegraphs estimated, [58], [63];
- of reversionary rights of railways, [64]
- Raikes, H. C., scheme of increased wages for telegraph employees, [140]-[141];
- rebukes the House for interference, [144];
- on the management of his Department, [145]-[147];
- on personal attention of Postmaster General given to cases of dismissal, [257];
- explains a case of promotion by seniority, [275]-[276], [306]
- Raikes’ Revision of wages and salaries, 1890-91, [140]-[147], [152];
- Railway companies, M. H. Foster’s views on reversionary rights of, [70]-[71];
- Government’s proposition to, [71];
- cost of the reversionary rights, [75]-[76];
- wires released to, [78]
- Railways, Reversionary rights of the, in the telegraphs, [57];
- purchase of the, necessary, [64];
- Mr. Goschen on, [66]-[67];
- Mr. Scudamore’s estimates for, erroneous, [68]-[69];
- leases of way-leaves, [69]-[70]
- Rates for messages, Control of, lost by the Government, [5], [91], [92];
- effect of reduction of, on increase of telegrams, [18];
- charged by British companies, [19];
- irrespective of distance, not remunerative, [28], [31]-[35];
- Mr. Scudamore’s forecasts on, [83]-[84]
- Reformed Parliament, Class influence the great reproach of the, [6]-[7], [97]-[98]
- Reilly, Thomas, Case of, [308]
- Reorganization out of service, [262]-[266]
- Representation of the People Bill, [94]
- Reuter’s Telegram Company, Property of, purchased, [73]
- Revenue, Estimated gross, [84];
- net, [86];
- proved appalling blunders, [87];
- receipts, [88]-[89];
- and interest on capital, [90]-[91n];
- net from messages, [104];
- large loss in, [109]-[110], [111];
- a diminished balance of, and increased expense, [146]-[147], [181]
- Revenue Department Estimates, Select Committee on, Report on deficit in Telegraph Department, [110]-[111]
- Revenue officers, Enfranchisement of proposed, [94];
- Reversionary rights of railway companies, [69]-[70];
- sum paid for, [75];
- estimate of, and cost, [76]
- Richardson, ——, Case of, [290]-[291]
- Right, The Sole, to transmit messages by electricity acquired by the Government, [5]
- Roberts, ——, auxiliary postman, Case of, [308]-[309]
- Robinson, postman at Liverpool, appointed inspector, [281];
- case cited as a grievance to Tweedmouth Committee, [282]
- Rockingham, Marquis of, disfranchised revenue servants at their own request, [184], [185]
- Rollitt, Sir Albert K., on demands of telegraphists, [155];
- on examinations for promotion, [156];
- moved reduction of salary of Post Master General, [173];
- endorses complaints, [174]-[176];
- demands a Committee of business men, [176];
- withdrew amendment, [179];
- reminds Commons of civil servants’ votes, [196];
- charges breach of contract, [202];
- record of, [224];
- supported Norton’s motion, [234]
- Ronalds, Mr., attempts to interest British Government in telegraphy, [37]
- Rothschild, Baron F. de, on civil servants, [143]
- Royal Commission of 1888 declared promotion by seniority the great evil, [274]
- Rutherford, W. W., a merchant in politics, [227]
- Salary, see Wages
- Salisbury Government succeeded by the Gladstone, [149]
- Samuel, H., intervenes for telegraph clerks at Oxford, [346]
- Saunders, Mr., on gratuitous sporting messages, [124]-[125]
- Schackleton, D. J., Intervention by, [353]
- School Board of London, Influence of, [321]
- Schwann, C. E., Intervention by, [298]-[299]
- Scudamore, F. I., commissioned to report on private and State telegraphs, [4], [13];
- report of, [14]-[22];
- reports based on incomplete returns, [42]-[45];
- errors in his figures, [44]-[45], [79], [80];
- standards of service, [45]-[48];
- errors of estimate of cost of extension and operation, [49];
- misleading comparison of telegrams with letters, [52]-[53];
- failure of his evidence, [54];
- argued for State monopoly, [55]-[56];
- previously opposed the same, [56n];
- on a Post Office system of telegraphs, [61]-[62];
- on the terms of purchase, [62];
- estimated cost, [63], [64];
- cross-examination of, [65]-[66n], [68n];
- ignorant of relations between telegraph and railway companies, [68];
- report on reorganization of telegraphs, [78n];
- estimate of revenue, [63], [81]-[82];
- influence over two ministries, [81];
- argues from penny postage, [82];
- revenue forecasts, [83]-[87];
- increase of messages, [84];
- gross revenue, [84];
- working expenses, [84]-[85];
- stood by his estimates, [86]-[87];
- revenue predictions of, appalling blunders, [87];
- responsible for, [92];
- to committee of newspaper proprietors, [115]-[116];
- yields to newspaper demand, [117]
- Select Committee on Post Office Servants, Composition of, and reference to, [243];
- asks for reappointment, [244]
- Service, Mr. Scudamore’s standards of, [45]-[48]
- Service, Change in conditions of, resisted, [351]-[353]
- Shares, Proposed way of selling, [56]
- Shaw-Lefevre, G. J., on the reduction of the tariff on telegrams, [108]-[110]
- Shehan, D. D., Intervention by, [297]
- Shephard, J., Complaints of, before Tweedmouth Committee, [289]-[290], [295]-[296]
- Sloan, T. H., Intervention by, [300]-[301], [313]
- Smith, J. S., on the Webster case, [307];
- Smith, Llewellyn, member of Tweedmouth Committee, [164], [165], [177]
- Smith, W. H., on the purchase of the telegraphs, [60]
- Smyth, Thomas, Intervention of, for Thomas Reilly, [308]
- Sorters of foreign letters, Option of vested interest for, [332]-[333];
- complaint from second class, [333]
- Speculator and dividend seeker, The mere, [37]
- Split duties, Complaint about, [155]
- Sporting messages sent gratuitously, [125];
- to so-called hotels, [126]
- Staff appointments the salt of the Service, [271n]
- Staff of men highly trained in the school of competition, [5]
- Stanley (of Alderly), Lord E. J. S., ordered report on Post Office Telegraph Service, [13];
- on Bradford Committee’s Report, [222]-[224], [229]-[230];
- would not receive circulars from members of House, [223];
- cost of recommendations, [224], [230];
- made own investigation and granted increased pay, [225], [230];
- would bear responsibility, [233];
- congratulated on his retirement, [244];
- on promotion for merit, [301];
- on dual duty, [347]
- Stansfeld, James, on difference between public and private establishment, [248]-[249]
- State, Result of extending the functions of the, [12]
- State employment means life employment, [247]
- Statistics of telegraph lines and facilities, [42]-[45]
- Steadman, W. C., demands a Select Committee on causes of complaint, [187];
- Stephenson, Sir Wm. H., on dismissal of State servants, [247]-[248];
- on cost of pensions of incompetents, [263];
- on promotions, [268]
- Superannuation Act, Committee on operation of, [262]
- Swiss experience, [24]-[26], [28]
- Switzerland, Reports on users of telegraph in, [17];
- effect of reduction of rates, [18];
- telegraph introduced in, [38];
- appropriated by the Government, [38];
- statistics, [42];
- increased use in, [51];
- telegrams to inhabitants in, [53]
- Table of ages and wages of provincial telegraphists, [141n]
- Tariff on telegrams reduced, [91], [92];
- cut almost in two, [109];
- Government should have resisted vote to cut in two, [379]
- Tariffs and growth of traffic, [50]-[53]
- Taylor, postman of Sterling, Case of, [195]
- Telegrams, Proportion of, to letters sent, [18];
- tariff on, reduced by House of Commons, [91], [92];
- cut almost in two, [109]
- Telegraph of no use in times of peace, [37]
- Telegraph clerks, Lack of knowledge of technics by, [270]-[271];
- demanded reduction of hours, [328];
- intervention for at Halifax, [348]
- Telegraph companies, Indictment of, [15];
- Telegraph deficit, Aggregate, [90];
- Telegraph Department, Report on deficits in, with statistics, [110]-[111], [181];
- not earning operating expenses, [220]
- Telegraph employees, Good-will of, purchased out of public purse, [380]
- Telegraph lines, Cost of rearranging and extending, [45], [49];
- Telegraph messages, and revenue from, [104]-[5], [111n]
- Telegraph offices in United Kingdom, [19];
- Telegraph service, Extension of, [77]-[80];
- Telegraph stations, Number of, in 1865, [44];
- distances from Post Office, [47];
- open to the public, [81n];
- number of increased, [104]
- Telegraph systems of United Kingdom and those of Belgium and Switzerland, Distinction between, [36];
- Telegraphists, Average weekly wages paid to, by companies, [127]-[128];
- wages increased after transfer to Post Office, [129];
- Lord Cavendish on organized agitation by, [133]-[134];
- table of ages and wages of, [141n];
- Earl Compton on grievances of the, [143];
- cost of concessions to, [145], [172];
- promotion of, blocked, [153]-[154];
- demand of, [155]-[156];
- neglected to improve themselves, [157];
- false statements by, [158]-[160];
- C. H. Kerry on work required of, [168]-[169];
- maximum salary of, raised, [170]-[172];
- complaints of, endorsed by A. K. Rollit, [174]-[176];
- threaten to strike, [174];
- concessions to, [180];
- grievance of examination, [190];
- charge of breach of contract, [194], [201]-[202];
- senior, promoted from first class, [329];
- by examination, [330]-[331];
- first class complained of grievance, [331], [333];
- increase in promotions, [334];
- complaint, [334]-[335];
- intervention for second class by H. L. W. Lawson, [336]-[337];
- Capt. Norton intervenes for, [338];
- demand amalgamation into a single class, [342]-[343];
- reject opportunities and demand more pay, [344]-[345];
- seek intervention to prevent transfer as sorters, [346]-[348];
- grievances as to pensions, [356]
- Telegraphs, Purchase of the, [3], [57]-[76];
- high price paid, [4]-[5];
- estimated cost and revenue, [58];
- terms of the purchase, [59]-[60];
- Scudamore and Hunt on, [62]-[63];
- estimated revenue, [63], [82];
- transferred to Post Office Department, [75];
- actual cost of to Government, [75];
- cost of extension and rearrangement, [78]-[79];
- earnings, 1880-81, [104];
- become self-supporting, [104]-[105];
- failed to earn operating expenses, [110];
- might have remained self-supporting, [112];
- subsidize newspaper press, [113]-[124];
- rate charged, [117];
- Committee on increased cost of service, [118]-[119];
- subsidize pool-rooms, [124]-[126];
- extension of, a purchase of votes out of the public purse, [379];
- would yield a profit in hands of a commercial company, [386]
- Telegraphs more freely used in Switzerland and Belgium than in the United Kingdom, [53], [81]
- Telephone, Competition from, [181]
- Telephone industry hampered by the State, [387]-[389], [392]
- Telephone royalties included in gross receipts, [89]
- Times, The, on Bradford Committee Report, [216]-[217]
- Tipping, E. J., on the Crompton case, [292]
- Towns, English and Welsh, Telegraphic facilities in, [
48648n], [45]-[48] - Trades union spirit, Development of a, [302]-[304]
- Tradesman, Small, did not use telegraph, [16]
- Traffic, Growth of, and tariffs, [50]-[53]
- Transit messages profitable in Belgium, [22];
- Treasury, The, on Civil Service pressure, [132];
- Treasury, Lords Commissioners of the, on accepting recommendations of Tweedmouth Committee, [172]-[173]
- Trenan, E., on lack of knowledge of technics in telegraph clerks, [270]
- Tribunal, A permanent non-political suggested, [232]
- Turner, ——, Case of, [159]
- Tweedmouth Committee, Testimony before, [137], [141]-[142];
- membership of, [163]-[164], [165];
- Report, [165]-[181];
- L. Hill before the, [166]-[167];
- H. C. Fischer, [167]-[168];
- C. H. Kerry, [168]-[169];
- recommendations of, [170]-[172];
- recommendations of accepted, [172];
- sharply criticized by A. K. Rollit, [173]-[176];
- a one-sided tribunal, [211];
- did not give satisfaction, [218];
- increase of expenses by, [221];
- testimony showing leniency of Post Office Department with offenders, [306]-[318];
- special grievances cited to the, [289]-[291];
- on risk allowances, [349];
- on pay for letter sorters, [349]-[350];
- on holidays, [350];
- grievances laid before, [355]-[359];
- evidence before, shows the visible helplessness of governments, [358]-[359]
- United Kingdom, Telegraph facilities in 1865, [43]-[44];
- telegrams to inhabitants in, [53]
- United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company, organized with uniform tariff irrespective of distance, [29];
- United Kingdom Telegraph Company, [40];
- Government purchase of, [58]
- Universal Private Company, Property of, purchased, [73]
- Uren, J. G., on transfers of postmasters, [287];
- on blocking officers by pensioners, [340]
- Vacancy, suburban, Interference in the filling of a, [299]-[300]
- Verney, Sir Harry, moves enfranchisement of revenue officers, [94]
- Vested rights doctrine of the Civil Service, [153], [155];
- Vincent, Sir Edgar, on dismissal of incompetent officers, [259]-[260]