The British State Telegraphs / A Study of the Problem of a Large Body of Civil Servants in a Democracy

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Hugo Richard Meyer

PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I Introduction

CHAPTER II The Argument for the Nationalization of the Telegraphs

CHAPTER III The Alleged Break-down of Laissez-Faire

CHAPTER IV The Purchase of the Telegraphs

CHAPTER V None of Mr. Scudamore's Financial Forecasts Were Realized

CHAPTER VI The Party Leaders Ignore Their Fear of an Organized Civil Service

CHAPTER VII The House of Commons Is Responsible for the Financial Failure of the State Telegraphs

CHAPTER VIII The State Telegraphs Subsidize the Newspaper Press

CHAPTER IX The Post Office Employees Press the House of Commons for Increases of Wages and Salaries

CHAPTER X The Tweedmouth Committee Report

CHAPTER XI The Post Office Employees Continue to Press the

CHAPTER XII The Bradford Committee Report

CHAPTER XIII The House of Commons Select Committee on Post Office Servants , 1906

CHAPTER XIV The House of Commons, Under Pressure from the Civil

CHAPTER XV The House of Commons, Under Pressure from the Civil

CHAPTER XVI Members of the House of Commons Intervene on Behalf

CHAPTER XVII The Spirit of the Civil Service

CHAPTER XVIII The House of Commons Stands For Extravagance

CHAPTER XIX Conclusion

INDEX

A transcriber’s note follows the text.

THE BRITISH STATE TELEGRAPHS

THE BRITISH STATE TELEGRAPHS

A STUDY OF THE PROBLEM OF A LARGE BODY OF CIVIL SERVANTS IN A DEMOCRACY

BY

HUGO RICHARD MEYER

SOMETIME ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, AUTHOR OF “GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF RAILWAY RATES;” “MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP IN GREAT BRITAIN”

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.

1907

All right reserved

Copyright, 1907

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published October 1907

THE MASON-HENRY PRESS
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK

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