17th.
The 145,000 members of the Civil Servants Clerical Association will begin their work to rule on January 17th unless the Government relents tts attitude towards pay arbitrntion agreements. In the current issue of 'Red Tape!', the union's journal, the general secretory, George Green, gives a guide as to how the work to rule will be put into effect.
The C,S.C.A, has members in all major Government departments (War, Pensions, Inland Revmue, ete.) and there - as in the Post Office - work gets done not by rules but by good will. The Post Office itself will be hit on another front - for C.5.C.i. members are concerned with making up telephone accounts. "No one can complain." says Mr. Green, "If officers carry out their duties in accordance with well-defined instructions.....Working to rule will mean that the “staff take no risks and meticulously check at cach stago that work is being done according these instructions" In the typing and machine fiejags, working to rulc would have "an immediate ond obvious offect on output. It would be pointless to ask for their observance of working to rule while clerks continued to use typewriters, Working to rule would imply that clerical officers mst write out and not type their work."