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WOMAN WINS SECOND "BREACH" SUIT.

Questions concerning pay and A common Jury awarded Mrs. conditions of employment were Dora. Mabel Evelyn Millor, of Balderton- asked during the first public meet-Clarendon-buildings, ing, in a Committee room of the street, London, W., £250_damages House of Lords on Nov, 12, of the în an netion for breach of promise Royal Commission on the Civil of marriage against Dr. John Service,

Martin, of Loring-road, Whetstone, Middlesex,..

The Commission, of which Lord Tomlin le chairman, was appointed to investigate the structure and organisation of the Civil Service, methods of recruitment, and work- ing conditions of Civil Servants, including rates of pay.

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Serjeant Sullivan said that the parties had been engaged for a long time, and arrangements were made for them to be married, but they were not carried out. ́In March, 1927, a breach of promise Is members are follows: action was brought by Mrs. Miller. Duchess of Atholl, M.P., Mr. J. B. but that was compromised, the Ballllo, Mr. W. Cash, jun., Mr. F. defendant agreeing as one of the W. Goldstone, Mra. Ayrton Gould, terms of settlement that he would Mrs. M. A. Hamilton, M.P., Sir P. marry Mrs. Miller within_nine R. Jackson, Mrs. Lowe, Sir C. T.months of the order of the Court, Needham, Mr. P. J. Pybus, M.P. which was dated December 2, Mr. R. Richards, M.P., Sir Henry 1927. In June, 1928, Dr. Martin Sharpe, Mre, Wintringham, Mr. J wrote an absolute refusal. Bromley, M.P., and Sir A. Pownall, In this letter he said: "Marriage Mr. Bromley has been appointed in between us is impossible-I would place of Mr. T. E. Naylor. M.P..s eep the streets first. I shall who has resigned.

remain a bachelor niways, for you have taught me a horrible lesson. See you again I never want to. It would mean a horrible cene and only unpleasantness would result."

Treasury Sanction,

Sir Russell Scott, Controller of Establishments Department, H. M. Treasury, giving evidence, said that Treasury sanction was neces-

sary to all scales and rates of salary throughout the Civil Ser« vies.

The constitutional position in regard to regmueration and other eonditions was that the Minister in charge of ench department wäs responsible to Parliament for the effective management of his staff.

There was. A postscript, sajd Serjeant Sullivan, which said: "I mean all this. Be a woman; aet like a woman; Write to me like a woman. I shall forgive, perhaps, ut marry you-never, never, never."

Introduced na His Wife. Mrs. Miller,

evidence, ex- plained int she was previously In the event of any difference married to an American named concerning the staff between the Miller, who, after she had come Treasury and another department away from him in the Unite the mutter could be referred to Etates, secured a divorce in Mis- the Cabinet, for-determination.

Four on the ground of desertion. Mrs. Hamilton asked Sir Russell Mra, Miller, in cross-examina- whether a Minister desiring addition by Mr. Morrin, stated that she tional stuff would have to apply had lived with Dr. Martin at to the Treasury to obtain sanction. Paria and Folkesione and that he

Sir Russell-Yes,

asked her to wait for him.

Mr. Justice Tabel-You mean that you lived with him as his wife?—Yes, in 1921,

Mrs. Hamilton-Supposing they refused-would the matter stop?" Sir Russell-There is the Ca binet, of course, but nominally, Mr. Morris-Did you regard Dr. such questions are decided with-Martin as one of your conquests? out 'reference to the Cabinet.

Oh, no, I loved Dr. Martin.

In referring to general regula- Re-examined by Serjeant Sulli- tions issued by the Treasury for van, Mrs. Miller said that she had the control of Civil Servants, and heen introduced to many people ag to avoid diversity of practice, Sir Dr. Martin's wife. It was a mat- Russell said there was a regulation ter of the greatest importance to prohibiting the use of political or her that after her relations with other outside influence to obtain him she should become his wife. advancement In the Service. ¿ Dr. Martin was cross-examined

Dealing with rates of remunera by Serjeant Sullivan.

tion and conditions, he said that After a reference to the stay at they should compare well with Monte Carlo, Serjeant Bullivan similar rates and conditions avail naked: Didn't It occur to you, able in competing occupations out-that, having dragged her name in side the public service,

the mud, you might be under somo It would not be night, he thought, obligation to carry out your con- to prescribe for Civil Servants tract?- rates which with the standards normally oh tained amongst good employers

were out of scale

outside the Service.

Questioned by Mr. Richards, he said there was a tendency for rates of pay in the Civil Service to be higher rather than lower than thore in outside positions.

Dr. Martin- was prepared to do no. If she had behaved like a decent woman I would have mar-

ried her. But she drove me to marry her

distraction, and to would have been madness.

Without retiring the jury re- turned a verdict for Mra, Miller and awarded her £250 damages' as, stated.

Mr. Bromley's Question,

Judgment was entered accord- Mr. Bromley-You say the con-ingly with costs. ditions of employment compare | F

very favourably with good em-that a temporary may be employed ployers outside. Who are those ten, fifteen or twenty years, and employers?

still be called a temporary

names.

Sir Russell- haven't the Sir Russell-There has always been a temporary or unestablished Mr. Bromley-I have been neek-fringe in the Civil Service because ing them for over thirty years and of the uncertainty of the perma- !

thought I had run one to earth nency of the employment. |to-day." (Laughter).

Sir Russel, roplying to another that the Boven- Sir Russell was alluding to the question, said conditions of unestablished Civil hours' day had no significance in Servants when Mr. Bromley re- the Civil Service for more than a marked: " was a Civil Servant small minority. Those within its myself once. 1 was a poetboy in scope did, in fact, work in a great

than more the postal service and earned four many cases shillings a week-it was static." hours. (Laughter).

Beven.

Sir Russell said that the Civil Dealing with the question of Service was in the van of progress pensions, Mr. Bromley asked: "IsIn the use of labour-saving devices. it to prevent a pension being paid The Commission adjourned.

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