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A HISTORY OF
POSTAL AGITATION
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NEW SIX SHILLING NOVELS
THE SEAFARERS
By J. Bloundelle-Burton
NELL GWYN, COMEDIAN
By F. Frankfort Moore
AN IMPERIAL LIGHT-HORSEMAN
By Harold Blore
A LOYAL LOVER
By Mrs. Lovett Cameron
BECKY
By Helen Mathers
THE TIGER’S CLAW
By G. B. Burgin
THE ACCUSED PRINCESS
By Allen Upward
MARCELLE OF THE LATIN QUARTER
By Clive Holland
THE GENTLEMAN PENSIONER
By Albert Lee
A LEGEND OF EDEN
By Harry Lander
LYONA GRIMWOOD, SPINSTER
By L. Higgin
PHARAOH’S BROKER
By Ellsworth Douglass
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A HISTORY OF
POSTAL AGITATION
FROM FIFTY YEARS AGO TILL THE
PRESENT DAY
INCLUDING A FEW FORGOTTEN PAGES IN THE
WIDER “HISTORY OF OUR OWN TIMES”
BY
H. G. SWIFT
I have eaten your bread and salt,
I have drunk your water and wine;
The deaths ye have died I have watched beside
And the lives that ye led were mine.
…
I have written the tale of our life.
…
—Kipling’s Departmental Ditties.
LONDON
C. ARTHUR PEARSON, LIMITED
HENRIETTA STREET
1900
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CONTENTS
PAGE
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY—THE CAUSES OF DISCONTENT AND THE        RISE OF POSTAL AGITATION5
CHAPTER II
BEGINNINGS OF COMBINED AGITATION—THE COMPULSORY        SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION—FIRST PUBLIC PROTEST        AT EXETER HALL23
CHAPTER III
ECONOMICAL REFORM, AND A LOWERING OF STATUS—AN        ESTIMATE OF ROWLAND HILL—EFFORTS OF THE        CIVIL SERVICE GAZETTE—THE CONDITIONS OF THE        SERVICE, 1854-6030
CHAPTER IV
GROWING DISCONTENT AMONG LETTER-CARRIERS—PROHIBITION        OF PUBLIC MEETING—THE FRANCHISE        AMONG POSTAL SERVANTS AND ITS HISTORY46
CHAPTER V
FORMATION O                        
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