[To THE EDITOR Or rue " SPECTATOR."]
Sitt,—If the figures given by "One of the Bureaucrats" in your last week's issue correctly represent the amounts paid to Civil servants, it describes a state of affairs which makes the non-bureaucrat take notice. During the war many manufac- turing concerns were controlled by the Ministry of Munitions (bureaucrats), and though increase after increase in bonus and wages were granted to manual workers, the managerial staffs of these concerns were not allowed to receive increases whilst "controlled," except with the sanction of the Ministry, his usual increase being limited to 10 per cent. war bonus on salary, and salaries were not allowed to be increased. Highly trained managers and others receiving salaries, say £600 to £1,000, had to and still have to do with a total salary and howls of £660- and £1,100, against the bureaucrat's £600 + " only " 60 pet' cent., and e1,0011 + " only " 50 per cent.
Such people are therefore much more badly hit by increased costs than the bureaucrat, yet they have the pleasure of know- ing that it is out of the taxes they pay that the Civil servants ("Masters" seems more correct if they can arrange their own increases) receive grumblingly such bonuses and further in- creases as are revealed in your correspondent's letter. There are many professions where increased remuneration falls fur short of the Civil Service scale, without, in most cases, any pension to look forward to.—I um, Sir, Ac., NOT ONE OF THE BUREAUCRATS.
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