Welby, Sir Reginald E., Testimony of, before Royal Commission on Civil Service pressure, 137-38; on power to remove incompetent employees, 251-53, 259; on probationary period, 260-61; on pensions, 263; on abolition terms, 264; on a six or seven hour day, 325-26; on vacations, 351; on power of public opinion on Treasury control of expenditures, 363-65; on power of Treasury to limit number of clerks, 370-71 West, Sir Algernon E., Testimony of, before Royal Commission on Civil Service pressure, 138-39; result of reorganization made by, 265; on promotion by merit, 273-74 Whips, Government, 361-62 Whitehall system of inspection inefficient, 320-22 Wiles, T., Intervention by, 317 Wireless telegraphy restricted from competition with government telegraph monopoly, 389-90 Women telegraphists, Promotion of, questioned, 293-94 Wood, ----, Interference in behalf of, 294-95 Wood, Sir Charles, on reduction in number of Junior Lords, 362 Woodhouse, ----, postman at Norwich, Case of, 310-11 Woods, Samuel, Motion of, for right to agitate, 183-87; lost, 187 Work, Maximum of, provided for, 219 Writers and their importance, 353-54 Wykes, ablest man in Sheffield office, displaced after promotion, 283, 305, 381 Transcriber Note: Italics are rendered between underscores, e.g. _italics_. Small caps are rendered as ALL CAPS. Other changes made by the transcriber are listed below. Transcriber's change table +------+---------------+---------------+ |image |as printed |changed to | |------+---------------+---------------+ | 50 |premanent |permanent | | 121 |augumented |augmented | | 172 |extraordinarly |extraordinarily| | 214 |unbiassed |unbiased | | 319 |indefinately |indefinitely | | 345 |Commissoin |commission | | 438 |486 |48n | +----------------------+---------------+ End of Project Gutenberg's The British State Telegraphs, by Hugo Richard Meyer