asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will state the number of male workers (excluding clerical workers) in receipt of wages of between £4 10s. and £7 per week employed by his Department, and the total wages so paid in 1959; and if he will indicate the categories of workers so employed.
Written Answers. - Male Workers Employed by Department of Posts and Telegraphs.
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On the 24th March 1960 the number of male workers (excluding clerical workers) in receipt of wages of between £4. 10s. and £7 per week employed in my Department was 2,325. In 1959 the total wages paid to such workers was £605,582. The great bulk of the workers concerned are part-time employees in the following categories who are paid at hourly rates:— auxiliary postmen, temporary auxiliary postmen, night and Sunday telephone attendant, part-time male night telephonist, cleaner. The balance consists of junior postmen, storeboys, mechanical transport apprentices, technician trainees, junior labourers and watchmen, plus some full-time postmen on the lower points of their scales.