Higher Pay for Postmen The postmen who bring much good
cheer to the rest of the community may this year rejoice in an improvement in their own conditions. The Civil Service Arbitration Tribunal, which has now published its findings on the comprehensive claims for increased scales of pay in the Post Office, has awarded all-round increases ante-dated to October 1st. The alterations to wages will add £,,000,00o a year to the earnings of the manipulative grades and £120,000 to those of the minor supervising officers. The full claims of the Union of Post Office Workers would have cost £5,400,000 a year. In arriv- ing at their compromise with this claim the Tribunal have borne in mind several economic changes since the last arbitra- tion on Post Office wages, comparative conditions in industry as a whole, and the nature and responsibility of the work at different grades. Conditions of service in the Post Office are in several particulars more attractive than they are in competitive industries generally, but the new awards were needed to satisfy the feeling on the part of the public that the Post Office wages are on a level which men in positions of responsibility and trust may reasonably expect.
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