20 MAY 1960, Page 15

BLACK AND WHITE

Sta;---A friend of mine recently applied fur a job with London Transport cleaning railway carriages at night---a post for which there can rarely be too many applicants. He is an educated man, a fluent speaker of several Middle Eastern languages, well built and equable tempered. His application was refused, apparently because of his pigmentation. He is white and his rivals, the majority of whom were employed, were all coloured. Does London Transport operate some kind of reverse colour bar by which sonic jobs are regarded as too menial for any but the new black proletariat?—Yours faithfully, •