Sir Albert Rollit acted as the spokesman of the Postal employees. He is a Solicitor in Mincing Lane and at Hull; a steamship owner at Hull, Newcastle and London; and a Director in the National Telephone Company, which pays its employees materially less than the Post Office pays the employees of the Post Office Telephone system.[222] He has been President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom, as well as of the London and Hull Chambers of Commerce. He was Mayor of Hull from 1883 to 1885; and for several years past he has been the President of the Association of Municipal Corporations. Sir Albert K. Rollit was not re-elected to Parliament in the General Election of January, 1906; and in the following March, the Postal Telegraph Clerks' Association passed a resolution "expressing appreciation of the services rendered to the Postal movement in and out of Parliament by Sir Albert K. Rollit, and regret that they were no longer able to command his championship in the House of Commons."[223] After the Balfour Government had rejected the Report of the Bradford Committee, in the interest of the taxpayers, Lord Stanley, Postmaster General, instituted "a careful comparison between Post Office wages and those current in other employments; and, as the result of the comparison, he felt justified in recommending to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury certain improvements of pay" aggregating $1,861,500 a year.[224] The improvements of pay were granted to sorters, telegraphists, sorting clerks and telegraphists, postmen, assistant and auxiliary postmen, and various smaller classes throughout the United Kingdom. FOOTNOTES: [209] There was no reference but that one. [210] _Report and Appendices of the Committee appointed to inquire into Post Office Wages_, 1904. [211] September 17, 1904. [212] September 12, 1904. [213] _Report of the Bradford Committee on Post Office Wages_, 1904, p. 198. Dr. A. H. Wilson, Chief Medical Officer of the Post Office, testified: "When cases of breakdown have been brought to my notice I have invariably found the primary origin of the illness to have been due to causes outside Post Office life. These causes are generally drink, financial worry, domestic troubles, etc." [214] Compare Chapter XI, testimony of Mr. Kerry. [215] _Hansard's Parliamentary Debates_, April 27, 1900, pp. 229 and 136; Mr. R. W. Hanbury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury. [216] _Hansard's Parliamentary Debates_, May 11, p. 342; Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Postmaster General. [217] _Hansard's Parliamentary Debates_, April 20, 1903, p. 1,022; Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Postmaster General. [218] _Hansard's Parliamentary Debates_, July 6, 1905, p. 1,390; Lord Stanley. [219] _The Times_, September 17, 1904: Correspondence.