27 MAY 1943, Page 14

POSTAL WORKERS AT LAW

Sit,—As a lifelong supporter of trade unions, and who saw the dockers in their march to listen to John Burns in Trafalgar Square, my point is that Civil Servants have no right to affiliate with the T.U.C. If they behave themselves and are once " established," they retire at sixty on two-thirds pension. If allowed to stay on at that age, the rate of pension is increased. Being servants of the Crown, they have no more right to the excitement, &c., &c., of a strike than a soldier or man-of-war's man, who would be liable to court-martial and to be shot.—Yours faithfully, " Alabama," Charley Wood, Herts. • E. A. W. OLDHAM.