Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — Women Postal Clerks. [ARTICLE]

Women Postal Clerks.

The German Government has been} making inquiries from the postmaster) general of the United States as to the) employment of women in the postal 1 service. In his report the postmaster) general states that there are in the United States 107 women employed in the postal department at Washington, 7,070 women postmasters throughout the. country, and probably 80,000 women who are assisting in the various post-, offices. It is the experience of the Uni- ( ted States Government that the ser-' vices of women in the postal depart-* ment have proved almost, if not equal-i ly, as satisfactory as those of the men., and among them there are some of the; most faithful and efficient servants of) the Government. The salaries newt paid to women In the department vary/ from $240 to SI,BOO a year.