WORKING CONDITIONS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 18, 20 July 1918, Page 3

WORKING CONDITIONS

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —A little article in the Women's Column of your paper last night, con- i cerning the happy conditions of work j of some of the Post and Telegraph employees, was -read by myself—and no | doubt other public servants, temporary ' and permanent—with much interest . and satisfaction. It would seem that ' some branches of the Service are get- | ting more like heaven every day, and i the powers that be deserve' the thanks of the country for the fatherly care they j exercise. Nevertheless, there is a sec- j tion of the most important part of the Service these days—the Defence Department—where the conditions of work are not creditable to the authorities that permit them ; where there is not , five feet, much less the regulation ten < feet, of space to each person, in a room [ practically unventilated and artificially j lighted the whole of the working hours. \ A vigorous complaint was made some | time ago by the unfortunate employees J concerned, and the Commissioners should be compelled to remedy the above state of affairs without delay.—l am, etc., . M. CAMPION. 18th July.