21 MAY 1942, Page 4

The Union of Post Office Workers is disturbed at the

nature of

conversations indulged in by users of the shilling (actually Is. 2d.) evening trunk telephone calls, of which various speak themselves telephone-operators, give detailed examples. For my I am equally disturbed at the disclosure that telephone-operat spend their time" listeningto private telephone conversations. Is

under officiarinstructions or—as I should have Supposed—in cost vention of them? The average citizen eipects to be able to I on the privacy of the telephone-system, as well as the privacy

the postal-system.

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