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This year bids fair to be one of the most important in the history of com mercial wireless, telegraphy as it affects Great Britain and the Empire. Reford many months have passed the first of the new Marconi-type beam stations will be brought into operation and in the cour

„BRITISH “CIVIL SERVANTS.

PROTESTS AGAINST AN "EIGHT, HOURS DAY.

A TREASURY MOVE,

There is a strong and apparently well- founded conviction in Government de partments, says a Parliamentary corre spondent, that the question of establish- ing an eight-hour day in the Civil Ser- vice is once again engaging Ministerial attention. It is stated that the Chan-' of the year direct high-speed wireless sellor of the Exchequer recently address- services on the Marconi short wave beamed a minute to officials at the Treasury system will be established with all the instructing them to investigate the hours principal Dominions.

of Civil Servanta, and the possibility of increasing them from seven to eight-a change recommended" by the Anders Committee some time ago--is believed to be under consideration.

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communication with Canada and South Africa is in an advanced state of con- struction. All the maats have been erect- ed, the buildings completed, and the machinery and some of the wireless up- paratus installed. The main part of the wireless apparatus--the transmitters and receivers is now being tested at the Marconi Company's Works at Chelmser a further reduction in the staffs of DUE TO tord, and it will be installed as soon as Government departments was put for these tests are completed. Meanwhile work is progressing on the erection of the aerial and leeder systems, and in fencing had readmaking.

ward as one of the measures of economy available. to Ministers, and it is regard- ed as certain that an increase in the length of the working day would enable

Mr. W. J. Brown, secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association, said in the course of a statement on the subject:

the services of a considerable number of The stations now nearing completion temporary clerks to be dispensed with are at Bodmin, in Cornwall, and at The idea that such a departure may be Bridgwater, Somerset. The Bodmin

recommended to the Cabinet in a Trea- station will be the transmitting stationary memorandum has already caused a used for communication with Canada and Butter in the Civil Service. South Africa and the Bridgwater station will be the receiving station for these ser vices. At each station there are ten maats, five for communication with each Dominion. The design of the masts is identical for the transmitting and receiv. ing stations. In the one case the aerial and reflector are utilised to concentrate the wireless energy and transmit signals in a particular direction and in the other caso the same arrangement is used to collect the received energy and concen- trate it, thereby still further increasing the signal strength

For a whole year we fought the Treasury on this proposal and beat them. refusing even to go into joint committes with them. We have not at present heard officially from the Treasury, but we expect to do so at any moment. Whatever financial savings were in- volved by the additional hour of work demanded would be more than offset by the bad feeling which the change would make by the increase in establishment charges and by the unemployment pay of the temporary staff, which would be dis missed in consequence of the change. The danger is that such a change would have a spectacular value from the Chan- cellor's point of view. This association will not under any circumstances agree to an infringement of the existing seven- hours day agreement."

The five musts for each Dominion are erected in a straight line at right angles to the direction in which communication is to be established. These masts are 277 feet high, each having a cross arm at the top measuring 50 feet from end to, end: The aerial and reflector will consist of a number of vertical wires suspended from triatics attached to the cross arms of the maats. There will thus be two parallel steel cables, separated

Red Tape, the Civil Service Journal, by a distance dependent on, the wave also refers to the matter: "It seems length used, running on each side of the fairly certain, it states, that as part of masta from the first to the last. From the movement for economy, there is to these cables, the vertical aerial and re-be a drastic reduction of atafi employed, flector wires will be suspended, the lower in a large number of departments. This ends of the wires being kept in position by balance weights. The distance be tween the masts is 850 feet, from centre to centre, and the length of the whole system of five masts for each transmitter about 3,200 feet from tail unchor block to tail anchor block.

is to be brought about by the abolition of certain blocks of statistical and other work, and by increasing, where possible, the volume of work falling upon in-. cividual Civil Servants."

The journal also states that there ap pears to be an intention to put forward At Bodmin transmitting station all again that discredited and thrice-re- pented device--the eight-hours day." It power required will be generated on the adds: There is no more peace-loving site. The generating plant consists of avocation than the Civil Service. Ita Ruston and Hornsby cold starting engines whole tradition, training, and environ- driving d.c. generators built by Newtons ment make it so; but it would fight thes of Taunton. The various" voltages rebusiness, involving as it would the break- quired for the operation of the valves ing of contracts and agreements to the will be supplied by motor generators and bitter end."' alternators. The valves themselves will

be of the oil cooled type, and the com- plate valve transmitters will be housed in & separate room adjacent to the power house. The generating plant has been mounted on a concrete raft-supported on cork to prevent vibration being transmit- ted to the transmitting set and the valve Oscillators themselves are mounted on a similar raft

From the transmitting room feeders are led to the aerials by means of copper tubes fixed above the ground.

including its own station at Dorchester," for communication with New York and South America.

The Imperial stations have been design- ed and are being built by Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., for the General Post Office, the buildings and foundations being carried out to the Foundation Company of London. Marconi Company's design by the

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By means of the beam system whereby. the radiated energy is concentrated in one direction, very much smaller power is required for communicating over any given distance than in the case of high power stations which radiate energy in all directions. In addition, the speed of working and freedom from interference have been greatly increased. Thus, not only will these statións give direct com-- munication between. Great Britain and the Dominions by a system which has proved itself, during Senatore Marconi's recent experiments, to be superior to apy--101' thing hitherto existing, but they open up possibilities with regard to Imperial com munications which has never before been available, and which has been the am- bition of the Dominions for many years. fed past, AK

The corresponding stations in Canada, near Montreal, and South Africa, near Cape Town, are in practically the same state of advancement sa the English stations, and other similar stations of the Imperial system are being erected at Grimsby and Skegness, in England, for communication with other stations at Poona in India, and Melbourne in Aus- |tralis. In fact, at the present time the Marconi Company has in hand no fewer than 17 short wave transmitting stations, (Dontfayed on next column.)

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