The Society of Civil Servants

Abstract

APROPOS of the letter which appeared in NATURE of October 24 on the need for scientific workers to organise themselves, I shall be obliged if you will allow me through your columns to direct the attention of scientific workers in the Government service to the recently founded body, the Society of Civil Servants, which is intended to cover the middle and upper grades of the Service—grades which hitherto have been almost wholly unorganised. By its second rule the objects of the society are defined as “to deal with all matters affecting the Civil Service, and to take such action thereon as may be expedient”—a purview of unlimited range. While the society is constituted on the basis of individual membership, members are encouraged to coalesce into whatever sectional associations—called in the rules “grade groups”—may conveniently and naturally come about. It is these “grade groups” that will consider matters such as salaries and scales of promotion which affect their members solely, the society taking up only wide questions affecting the Civil Service generally.