Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1920 — SALARY RAISES FOR POST OFFICE CLERKS [ARTICLE]

SALARY RAISES FOR POST OFFICE CLERKS

Washington, May 31.—Increased salaries for postal employes, amounting to approximately $33,000,000 for the first year, effective July 1, were recommended in a report to congress today by a joint congressional committee. Increases of from $l5O to $250 annually for postal clerks and letter carriers with S4OO additional for supervisory officers were recommended. No increases for first class postmasters receiving above $5,000 a year were proposed, however. Estimates by the commission place the increases of the postal payroll at about $38,000,000 for the second year, and $43,000,000 for the and fourth years. For rural delivery carriers, the commission recommended SI,BOO for a twenty-four mile route and an additional S3O for each mile in excess of that distance. Motor route carriers covering fifty miles or more would receive not in excess of $2,600. The pay of village delivery carriers would be from SI,OOO to $1,200. Should the recommendations of the commission based on hearings held in various parts of the country be adopted, clerks at first and second class postoffices as well as city carriers, would be divided into five classes with those in first class receiving $1,400 annually and SIOO added for each class. Substitutes and temporary carriers would receive sixty cents an hour while special clerks would be paid from $1,900 to $2,000 annually. Watchmen, messengers and laborers would be divided into two grades, the first receiving $1,350 and the second $1,450.