12 OCTOBER 1962, Page 17

CUSTOMS UNION

Ste,—What steps are being taken to safeguard the jobs of the customs officers at the ports dealing with continental traffic if we enter the Common Market? Should they not stage a one-day strike unless Mr. Heath can arrange to keep on token duties [say 2 per cent] and thus maintain the smuggling industry upon whose vitality the livelihood of these men depends? If it is all the same to them may I sug- gest (for personal reasons) that they absent them- selves from duty on November 3?

STEPHEN KING-HALL

Hart held House, Headley, Bordon, Hants