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Memorandum from the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, May 1948, with regard to the pay and conditions of employment in the Postal Service, 'an increase of 5s 6d, a week has recently, with Finance approval, been offered to Women Workers in the Post Office Factory (whose wages are related to outside rates) only emphasises the difference between the Civil Service and other employment'.

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memorandum

Memorandum from the Department of the Taoiseach to the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, 3 June 1948, regarding the remuneration of postal staff. The full-time officers of departmental classes whose wages did not exceed £350 per annum were offered the following increases, '11s a week in the case of men and by 5s 6d in the case of women and juveniles'.

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memorandum

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Independent', 1 June 1948, in relation to pay increases for civil servants, 'All officials and workers whose total income does not exceed £350 per annum will be given 11/- per week in the case of men and 5/6 in the case of women and juveniles'.

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newsclipping

employment

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Press', 5 June 1948, entitled 'What Civil Servants are to get Award?' The article deals with the decision to award pay increases to certain civil servants, 'an increase of 11/- a week to male civil servants receiving up to £350 and 5/6 to female civil servants and juveniles'. The Post Office Workers' Union requests information as to whether the increase applies to the Service as a whole.

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newsclipping

employment

Report of the Civil Service Arbitration Board, 5 February 1951. The report outlines the terms of reference of the Board whose parties include representatives from the Post Office Workers' Union and the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs. The report lists the grades within the postal service whose wages are under consideration, for example, 'Post Office Clerks, Grade A, male and female; Telephonists; Female Stores Assistants and Warehousewomen'. The current rates of pay are discussed at length. The Board awards an increase in the pay of several grades and these are given in tables at the end of the document.

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report

Superannuation Bill, 1936. The Bill contains, amongst others, the following sections: British civil services; reckoning of established civil service in certain cases of ill health; supperannuation position of Quit Rent Office Staff and the application of the Superannuation Acts to certain services. A table lists the name, address and husband of each woman receiving compensation
'Nora Bulfin (nee Brick), Derrinlough House, Birr, County Offaly, Eamonn Bulfin; Margaret Mary (Madge) Comer (nee Clifford), Fairy Hill, Rathdowney, Leix, John Joseph Comer'.

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Bill

Letter from JJ McElligott to the Secretary, Department of the President, 9 May 1935, in relation to the Budget. The letter includes a list of savings in the estimates of expenditure for 1935, for example, 'Widows and orphans pensions, £100,000'.

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letter

Letter from D Fitzgerald, Minister for External Affairs, to the Secretary to the Executive Council, 28 August 1925, recommending the immediate dismissal of two members of staff at the Department of External Affairs, 'I am satisfied from reading certain captured documents that Miss Ethna O'Byrne and Mr Carty have for a long period been acting treacherously, giving information to State enemies, removing newspaper cuttings etc from the office'.

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letter

Copy letter to the Secretary, Department of External Affairs, unsigned, 1 September 1925, stating that Miss Ethna O'Byrne and Mr James Carty have been dismissed from the Department of External Affairs.

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letter

Copy letter to the Private Secretary to the Minister for Justice, unsigned, 26 September 1925, listing State employees implicated by documents captured from the Irregulars. The letter gives the action taken in each case, for example, 'Miss Ethna O'Byrne, Department of External Affairs, dismissed 28 August 1925'.

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letter