- Wages and salaries of employees raised by political pressure, [91]-[92], [105], [110], [137]-[140];
- caused decrease of revenue, [109];
- average weekly, paid to telegraphists by companies, [127]-[128];
- increase in after transfer to Post Office, [129];
- Fawcett revision of, [131];
- Lord Cavendish on, [133]-[134];
- Raikes revision of, [140]-[147];
- increased expenditures from, [160]-[161], [172], [180];
- no justification for raising maximum, [168];
- Tweedmouth Committees’ recommendations on, [170]-[171];
- adopted, [172];
- further raise of, by Norfolk-Hanbury Committee, [180];
- cost of, [180]-[181];
- continued pressure for increase, [182]-[213];
- comparative, [230]
- Walker, J. R., passed over, [291]
- Walpole, Spencer, member of Tweedmouth Committee, [163], [165], [177];
- Ward, J., member of Select Committee, Intervention by, [316]-[317]
- Wastefulness of the Government’s operation, [5];
- Weaver, H., on the newspaper tariff, [118]-[119]
- Webster, letter carrier, disciplined for misconduct, [307]-[8]
- Welby, Sir Reginald E., Testimony of, before Royal Commission on Civil Service pressure, [137]-[138];
- on power to remove incompetent employees, [251]-[253], [259];
- on probationary period, [260]-[261];
- on pensions, [263];
- on abolition terms, [264];
- on a six or seven hour day, [325]-[326];
- on vacations, [351];
- on power of public opinion on Treasury control of expenditures, [363]-[365];
- on power of Treasury to limit number of clerks, [370]-[371]
- West, Sir Algernon E., Testimony of, before Royal Commission on Civil Service pressure, [138]-[139];
- Whips, Government, [361]-[362]
- Whitehall system of inspection inefficient, [320]-[322]
- Wiles, T., Intervention by, [317]
- Wireless telegraphy restricted from competition with government telegraph monopoly, [389]-[390]
- Women telegraphists, Promotion of, questioned, [293]-[294]
- Wood, ——, Interference in behalf of, [294]-[295]
- Wood, Sir Charles, on reduction in number of Junior Lords, [362]
- Woodhouse, ——, postman at Norwich, Case of, [310]-[311]
- Woods, Samuel, Motion of, for right to agitate, [183]-[187];
- lost, [187]
- Work, Maximum of, provided for, [219]
- Writers and their importance, [353]-[354]
- Wykes, ablest man in Sheffield office, displaced after promotion, [283], [305], [381]
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| 32 | premanent | permanent |
| 103 | augumented | augmented |
| 154 | extraordinarly | extraordinarily |
| 196 | unbiassed | unbiased |
| 301 | indefinately | indefinitely |
| 327 | Commissoin | commission |
| 407 | 486 | 48n |