The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-21
THEY WANT MORE PAY AND
PROTECTION OF THE CIVIL
SERVICE.
MINNESOTA STAMP LOCKERS
ORGANIZE TO PUSH THEIR
CLAIMS IN CONGRESS AND
ELSEWHERE.
WILL MEET AGAIN SUNDAY
To Extend the Membership and
Formulate Requests Embodying
Their Most Urgent Needs.

The fourth class pOStmaSters of Min
nesota, it transpires, recently met at
North st. Paul, and organized a branch
of the National League of Fourth Class
Postmasters, and will hold another
meeting next Sunday at a point &C
cessible to the Twin Cities to take active
steps for the betterment of their con-
dition. The league has already given
it's Endorsement to the Cummings and
Hardy bills, now pending in congress,
for securing better compensation for
pcstmasters of the fourth class, and
has also asked the civil service COM
mission for the protection of the civil
service laws.
The circular calling the meeting for
next Sunday says: Nov is our golden
opportunity to make united effort for
improvement in our own condition, and
consequently for an improved public
service. The bills now before congress
for increasing our remuneration have
as yet found no voice of dissent in that
body and only wait the united demand
of the postmasters themselves to secure
their final passage. They have already
been ordered printed, read twice and re-
ferred to the committee on postal af-
fairs, with whom it now rests to re-
port them to congress for final passage.
The congressman SO far approached
have expressed their entire sympathy
with us, and their readiness to vote for
beth these bills when put on their final
passage.
AS regards civil service, the commits
sion has actually prepared and submit
ted to the department a plan for eX-
tending the law to US. But the depart
ment deemed it too complicated, and
referred it back to the commission to
be revised and simplified. This revision
is now being made. Thus the commits
sion and the department are both work.
ing hard to bring about this great re-
form before the present administration
gees out of office. "A member of the
commission has expressed the desire
thzt the fCu th-ciass postmasters should
themselves, both collectively and in
dividually, show an active interest in
this matter, and arouse also the inter
est and support of the patrons of their
respective offices, that the authorities
may be encouraged to push through
this reform by the knowledge that
there is public demand for it.
The present congress will reassemble
after the elections are over; the pres
ent administration will complete it's
term Of office next March. Neither
congress nor the administration, there
IOF6, Will De ndmporo0 by questions
Of mere party expediency in the effort
to meet fairly our demands for civil
service protection and increased re-
Enumeration.
We propose, then, with your assist
ance, to build up state branch of the
National League of Fourth-Class Post
masters in our own state, and to push
on at once the organizing of a county
branch in every county in the state.
Branches are now being organized in
other states. and from these branches
representatives will be chosen to meet
and organize the national league.
The circular is signed by North Star
branch by P. f. Murphy, president, P
NJ. at North ST. Paul; T. W.
Jaynes, vice president, P. NJ
at Grant; Lorenzo j.. Markoe
recording secretary, P M at
White Bear Lake; w. J. O'Brien, cor
responding secretary, P. M. at st. Paul
Park; Miss Mary Bosom, treasurer, p
Me at Centreville; Timothy Fee, of
executive committee, P. M. at
Mendoza; VIM. Rawleigh, Of ex-
ecutive committee, P. M. at Combs;
E. r. Kellogg, p. M. at Hugo;
James Reid, P. M at South ST. Paul !;
VIM. Mueller. P. NJ at Gladstone; Mrs
VIM. Mueller, assistant P M at Glad
stone; Geo. T. Reid, P. M. at South
Saltwater; Mrs. Mary Murphy, assist
ant P M. at North St. Paul; F. L.
Rawson, P. M. at New Brighton; Mrs
w. J. O'Brien, assistant P. M. at St.
Paul Park