Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1911 — RURAL MAIL CARRIERS [ARTICLE]

RURAL MAIL CARRIERS

To Receive Advance in Wages Amounting to $4,000,000 for the 40,000 Carriers. Washington, July -10.—The 40,000 odd rural free delivery carriers in the United States are to receive salary increases as a result of a decision readied today by Postmaster-General Hitchcock. The order will provide for the disbursement during the current fiscal year of $4,000,000, which will mean an increase of SIOO over the present salary of S9OO for all carriers on ‘standard routes, with proportionate increases on the shorter routes. His desire to compensate the carries for any additional burden ' which may be placed on them if the parcel post system he has . recommended for rural routes is approved by Congress was the important consideration, tjhe Postmaster - General declared, j which led him to make the' au-