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possible opportunity to settle their own differences. responsibility not only to their members but to the public service generally, and I would hope that the respective National Executive Committees would get together with the firm determination of reaching a mutually satisfactory arrangement. It will, of course, be appreciated that if this matter remains unresolved I would need to consider very carefully in the light of all the relevant factors where the public interest lies, but I should by then have the advantage of knowing the outcome of any further discussions that will have taken place between the organisations.

There is cne Staff Association which is in a quite different position from any other, and which I propose to recognise forthwith. This is the Telephone Sales Supervising Officers' Association, which claims to have in membership over 90% of the staff concerned. No other organisation is recognised or claims recognition for these grades, and the alternative to the recognition of this Association would therefore be to leave them without any recognised representation whatsoever, which would be quite unjustifiable.

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