Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1920 — PRESENTS BILL INCREASING POSTAL MEN PAY [ARTICLE]

PRESENTS BILL INCREASING POSTAL MEN PAY

Washington, D. C., April 21.— (Special)—As a means of increasing efficiency ,at the Chicago postoffice Representative Juul of that city introduced a joint resolution in the house providing increases in the salaries of postal employes. The resolution provides for an increase of S2OO in addition to a temporary increase made a few months ago for those receiving from SI,OOO to $1,200, an increase of $l5O for those receiving from $1,200 to sl,600, an increase of $125 for those receiving from $1,600 to $2,000, an increase of SIOO for those receiving from $2,000 to $2,500. Scop, of Application. The resolution applies to postmasters at offices of the third class, assistant clerks at division headquarters of post office inspectors, special clerks, finance clerks, bookkeepers, printers, mechanics, skilled laborers, watchmen, messengers, laborers, and other employes of offices of the first and second class, letter carriers in the city deliveries, employes in government owned automobile service, supervisory officials, inspectors, railway postal clerks, superintendents and laborers. Increase for Some Postmasters. It is provided that no third class postmaster shall receive more than $2,200 per annum and that salaries of postmasters at offices of the fourth clas shall be increased 20 per cent. Senator Moses of New Hampshire, a member of the joint commission on postal salaries, today predicted a report early in May. “The postal service is. in a deplorable condition,” he said. “It is not true that the commission has been idling. It has been hard at;’-work.”