Note 152 — Chapter IX · The Post Office Employees Press the House of Commons for Increases of Wages and Salaries

Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, February 18, 1898, p. 1,109. S. Woods quotes as follows from the circular issued by the Fawcett Association in June, 1892: “Will you, in the event of being elected a Member of Parliament, support a motion for the appointment of a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the Post Office Service, such as was advocated by Earl Compton, and largely supported during the recent Session of the House of Commons?”