Pensions, State's system of, contrasted with system of London and North Western Railway, 264 Pensions to the incompetent, Cost of, 263 Permanent Secretary, Duties of the, 363 Personal bribery replaced by class bribery, 246 Playfair, Sir Lyon, Testimony of, before Royal Commission on Civil Establishments, 139-40; on infrequency of promotion by merit, 274; on writers, 353-54 Playfair Commission, Scale of wages for government clerks recommended by, 130 Pledge contained in circular issued by the Fawcett Association, 148n Plummer, Sir W. R., intervenes for retirements, 338-39 Political influence, Effect of, on Post Office administration, 305-6 Political pressure not all in one direction, 138; too much from civil servants, 178, 231-33, 234-35 Politics forces the Government's hand, 58-59 Post Office, The, a revenue department, 166; denied by A. K. Rollit, 174; technical work of the, 188; no part of its duty to make a profit, 205; net revenue from, 220; expenses increased, 221 Post Office Department, Complaint of stagnation of promotion in, 152; Tweedmouth Committee on, 171; apparent net profits of, 227n; compelled to deal leniently with violators of rules, 306-320 Post Office employees denied by the Conservative Ministry a Select Committee on their pay and position, 8; vote with Liberals, 9; and secure the Committee, 9; press House of Commons for increase of wages and salaries, 127-64; Circular of, objected to by Lord Stanley, 223 Post Office officials can only recommend for promotion, 276 Post Office Servants, Select Committee on, 359 Postal clerks and telegraphists, Comparative chances for promotion of, 344-45; Bradford Committee on, 348 Postal servants, Are, fairly paid, 217; expenditure demands of, called for, 221; not satisfied with Bradford Committees' recommendations, 221, 229; demands were "blackmail" and "blood-sucking," 231-32, 233; largely in hands of agitators, 238-40; and the general election of 1906, 240-41 Postal Telegraph Clerks' Association, a powerful political organization, 9; concessions granted to, 10; demands adoption of the Bradford Committee Report, 226-27; meetings of, 228-29, 241 Postal telegraph offices, Increase of, 101; misleading tables regarding, 102-3 Postmaster General, Concessions made by, 10; and the party following, 277; limitations of power of, to promote or to remove, 286-87; interviewed first in cases of intervention by a member of Parliament, 304 Postmasters general, Anxieties of, regarding promotions, 279, 280, 306 Postmasters, Demands of, from Tweedmouth Committee, 288; salaries of, and volume of business, 288 Postmen, W. C. Steadman on grievances of the, 194-95; Thos. Bayley asks for a Committee on, 198 Postmen, London, Abolition of classification of, 341-42