Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1911 — Rural Route Carriers Will Probably Get Salary Increase. [ARTICLE]

Rural Route Carriers Will Probably Get Salary Increase.

A bill Introduced in congress provides for an increase in salary for rural route carriers from S9OO to SI,OOO per year. As there are approximately 2,000 carriers in Indiana this would mean an increase -of $200,000 in this state. Postoffice department officials do not favor the increase because the department is trying to reduce expenses, but congress seems disposed to authorize the increase over the objections of the department. With the high cost of caring for horses the rural carrier's job at S9OO is not a very fat one and the additional hundred would be put in a good place. The policy of the government in all departments is to pay well for the service performed and the increase for carriers would still leave them about the poorest paid servants of the government.