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Excerpt from The Inter-Departmental Committee on Post Office Establishments: Being a Verbatim Report of the Evidence Given Before Lord Tweedmouth and Committee by the Representatives of the Postmen's Federation The history of the birth and growth of the movement for an amelioration in the condition of that important body of Civil Servants - the Postmen of the United Kingdom - is contained in this volume, and constitutes a magnificent record of what may be accomplished by steadfastness of purpose and unity of forces. The events which led to the formation of the Postmen's Federation, and the labours of that body when established, compelled the abandonment by the higher officials of the Service of that old-time Conservatism - and here we speak not of politics, but of policy - which treated the rank and file as mere machines, with no power to think or act for themselves, and no right to combine in order to secure the redress of their grievances. But the old order of things has now almost disappeared. The advance of democratic sentiment has gained for all working men - be they State servants or in private employment - the right to join hands for the common good. Combination has, in fact, been legalised, the claims of manhood have been recognised, and the English-speaking working man to-day stands proudly before the whole world the possessor of privileges and the holder of an independent position which mark him out for the envy of his class in all foreign countries. The accompanying volume contains a faithful record - reproduced in larger measure from the "Postman's Gazette" - of the work done by members of the Federation, jointly, as well as individually, on behalf of the Postmen of the United Kingdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.