Telegraphists, Average weekly wages paid to, by companies, 127-28; wages increased after transfer to Post Office, 129; Lord Cavendish on organized agitation by, 133-34; table of ages and wages of, 141n; Earl Compton on grievances of the, 143; cost of concessions to, 145, 172; promotion of, blocked, 153-54; demand of, 155-56; neglected to improve themselves, 157; false statements by, 158-60; C. H. Kerry on work required of, 168-69; maximum salary of, raised, 170-72; complaints of, endorsed by A. K. Rollit, 174-76; threaten to strike, 174; concessions to, 180; grievance of examination, 190; charge of breach of contract, 194, 201-2; senior, promoted from first class, 329; by examination, 330-31; first class complained of grievance, 331, 333; increase in promotions, 334; complaint, 334-35; intervention for second class by H. L. W. Lawson, 336-37; Capt. Norton intervenes for, 338; demand amalgamation into a single class, 342-43; reject opportunities and demand more pay, 344-45; seek intervention to prevent transfer as sorters, 346-48; grievances as to pensions, 356 Telegraphs, Purchase of the, 3, 57-76; high price paid, 4-5; estimated cost and revenue, 58; terms of the purchase, 59-60; Scudamore and Hunt on, 62-63; estimated revenue, 63, 82; transferred to Post Office Department, 75; actual cost of to Government, 75; cost of extension and rearrangement, 78-79; earnings, 1880-81, 104; become self-supporting, 104-5; failed to earn operating expenses, 110; might have remained self-supporting, 112; subsidize newspaper press, 113-24; rate charged, 117; Committee on increased cost of service, 118-19; subsidize pool-rooms, 124-26; extension of, a purchase of votes out of the public purse, 379; would yield a profit in hands of a commercial company, 386 Telegraphs more freely used in Switzerland and Belgium than in the United Kingdom, 53, 81 Telephone, Competition from, 181 Telephone industry hampered by the State, 387-89, 392 Telephone royalties included in gross receipts, 89 _Times, The_, on Bradford Committee Report, 216-17 Tipping, E. J., on the Crompton case, 292 Towns, English and Welsh, Telegraphic facilities in, 486, 45-48 Trades union spirit, Development of a, 302-4 Tradesman, Small, did not use telegraph, 16 Traffic, Growth of, and tariffs, 50-53 Transit messages profitable in Belgium, 22; in Switzerland, 24 Treasury, The, on Civil Service pressure, 132; organization and work of the, 360-63; power of public opinion on, 363-65; power of, not exercised, 369, 370-71; importance of, 377, 384 Treasury, Lords Commissioners of the, on accepting recommendations of Tweedmouth Committee, 172-73 Trenan, E., on lack of knowledge of technics in telegraph clerks, 270