The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-23
POSTAL EMPLOYES
 CONVENE HERE TODAY
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| W1AcdL ne W1l1 nave to get, sooner or l later, is an allowance for maintenance and repairs of his outfit. Thus far, we are not discouraged. No one can l justly defend the payment of $1.20O salary and team allowance of $500 or ! $400 to a mounted city carrier, who l travels only over good streets and 1 deny similar treatment to mounted 1 rural carriers who travel the worst
 possible roads and the most danger 1 ous lanes.
 But aside from the mounted car rier proposition. it is. in itself, abso- futely just. The increase of salary will not settle this matter. It will
 never be settled until it is settled right and that will only be accom- plisfed by fair allowance for the l upkeep Of the rural carriers outfit.
 Such a bill will be passed. just when, I cannot say, but it will be in the short | est possible time if those of us who are looking at the matter in a right light can only control Q. majority of I the Post Office committee. We hope
 to do this in the near future, too.
 THE WAGE ARGUMENT. .sIt is no argument to say that pIen-s 1 ty of men are waiting to take the job l of the carrier who is not satisfied with 1 his lot and quits the service. You can get plenty of men to take any mans l job for less money than he Is being l paid. That applies to congressman as well as rural carriers
 RETIREMENT SCHEME
 Another thing the post office em- pIoye is interested in--and the rural carriers as we'll as those in other branches-is the retirement proposf-
 ton. A civil service pension is surely
 coming, the civil service will have to be radically changed if not abolished. As it is now, every man who has
 particle of fairness in his makeup ad- u1its that, as an economic problem, aside from any other phase Of the will have to be adopted. The govern nent is losing money every minute by the retention of superannuated em- ] ployes, but, thank God, it is willing to do this rather than turn these faith
 full old men and women out to die by the roadside.
 AGITATION HELPFUL. "Great reforms are brought about only by agitation and education. Keep Eta1king this thing and 1t will come. 1 When it does come, let it be the real l kind of civil service pension, the only
 kind that means anything-the non I contrfbutory kind
 He later addressed meetings of the clerks and carriers speaking broadly upon these subjects as well as upon I compensation bills ewhichs he believed
 would benefit many of the government employees.
 Other speakers were ConIgressrnan Kennedy. who spoke upon the justice of compensation to the rural carrier for the loss of time and of horses as we'll and who in closing commended l Congressman Reilly as a real friend to the carriers and clerks: PoStuaster CT ATaTfgoId. who welcomed the visiting delegates.
 The meeting was opened by Presi- dent James F. O,Keefe of Mfdd1etown, 1 assisted by Vtce-President T. F. Crane of Bridgeport, who is mentioned as the next president, and Julian B.
 Woodruff. secretary and treasurer. of Berlin.
 l The case of Capt. HaaIand F. Rugg of this city. whose resignation was
 asked by the fourth assistant post master after a complaint had been
 lodged with the department thxat de-
 livery was slow, was taken up A
 storm of protest broke foa tn when it
 was learned that though he is advanc- I ing in age. he makes two rural deliv- l cries daily over a route comprising 3og
 boxes and that a. conpa rdson with oth- I CT routes shows his deliveries to have I4been made quicker than on any other.
 It was unanfTn nous1y voted that the
 matter be placed in the hands of Con- gressrnan Reilly for investigation. The,
 for the election of officers
 Following the conventions and re- ception at the Hotel estratfield mon 1 ster banquet will be held at 6:20 to-
 night in the State armory where over I 1000 will be seated Under the toast
 nastership of Postmaster William H. I Mar1gold it is expected that many speeches will be made. Invitations l have been extended to Congressme en
 Jeremiah Donovan, Bryan F. Mahan. l Thomas Bs Reilly, Augustine Loner- I gan and William Kennedy. Letters Of
 regret have been received from Con-
 gressmen Donovan, Mahan and Loner- i gan. L. Selt. Gov. Iynian Tingier is ex-
 pected to speak at length and others I at the speakers table will be P o.
 Inspector P. D. Colvin. New York
 Richard J. German, chief clerk of the
 railroad mail service. New Haven;
 Mayor Clifford B. Wilson; Pierce
 Maher, superintendent of mails at New
 Haven; Andrew Mckee, president of
 the National Association of Civil Ser
 vice Employes; Frank T. Riggs presi- l dent National F. o. Clerks association, I Chicago; William E. Kelly, president of the National Letter Carriers as-
 sociation.s sBrookiyn; John E. Roberts, 1 president State C1eri1s' association; I Daniel c. Darrow, president of the
 State Association of Letter Carriers 1 New Britain.
 The citizens committee with post
 master William H. Margold, acting as chairman was composed of Col T. J. l Murphy, William F. Meyer, S1dney K.
 Hawley, B. J. LonergaIl, Daniel E. Walker, ex-Mayors Edward T. Buck ingham, Fred c. Mullins. R. J. Mur- phy, M. J. Clabby, Fred Enos, Simeon Pease, Capt. F. J. Breckbill, Judge A. B. Beers, Col M. H. Rogers, ". E..
 Burnhann, w. A. Smith. c. D Davis.
 B. H. Havens, l.. J. Reilly, L. B. Cur tis. Archibald McNefl, Jr., Mayor Cliff ! l ford B. Wilson.
 Committee on Arrangements: P. H. Howard, chairman; Reginald B. Reed, secretary; F. V. GilhuIey, treasurer. : <. Invitation committees: Charles A. Emery, Burton G. Ca1fieId, Joseph
 Mccullough, Miss A. c. Strumbeck, Miss F. L. O'Reilly, Philip Carroll. Banquet committee. Thomas F.