Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-13

Uses Of promotion in from three to six
months.
"And there is further good ground
for complaint. The purchasing power
| Of dollar has now shrunk to a point
where a salary Of $1,000 today
amounts to not much more than the
| equivalent Of $500 or $500 five years
| ago. The patent Office clerks have
! learned this by the painful trial of
experience, and very many Of them
| who have worked for five years or
| more without a promotion and who
have little or no prospect OF promotion
for five years in the future are in
| clined to regard themselves as unfair
| 1y treated. They see mere novioes
everywhere ENGAGED at as much :, h. Or
years Of faithful service"
! By william G. Redneld, Secretary Of
Il desire to call your attention to g.
very serious situation at the bureau
of standards in connection with the
are nowhere near those paid by the
Industrial concerns for the same grade
! Of service, nor are the increases sub
mitted based upon present conditions.
Indeed, these increases were submit
ted three or four years ago and rep.
! that time. In most cases the salaries
Of our leaders are not over so per cent
Of those paid elsewhere. There can be
but one result, namely. serious de-
!terioration Of the quality Of the bu-
reau's personnel: this needs no argu-
or four years the bureau has lost
| many Of its best men. The loss Of
these men leads to inefficient work
ard tends to destroy the bureaus use
fitness to the public"
By w. b. Wilson. Secretary OF
Labor-'1t is recommended that the
entrance salary for all frst-class
| clerks. stenographers. ETC.. be fixed at
1900 per annum; that the entrance
| salary for minor clerical positions be
| fixed at $1,000 per annum. that tho
| salary Of engineer be Increased from
| salary Of electrician be increased
from $1,000 to $3.50 per annum, that
| the salary Of skilled laborers be In
| creased from $40 to from $1,000 to
| 1880 per annum, that the salary Of
| nremen be increaed from $3.50 to 81
2b2 per annum. that the salary of
messengers be increased from $40 to
$1,000 per annum, that tho salary Of
l telephone operators be increased from
| $3.50 to 81 1000 per annum, that the sal
airy Of elevator conductors be in
creased from $3.50 to $1,000 per an.
mum. that the salary Of watchmen be
increased from $40 to $1,000 per an
sengers be increased from $3.50 t.
$500 per annum, and that the salary
Of laborers be increased from $3.50 to
$1,000 per annum.
TT is further recommended that
because OF war conditions, and the re-
sulting higher cost Of living. the per
diem in lieu Of subsistence allowance
be raised from - to 49,"
By r. ". Gregory, Attorney General,
II. That the minimum salary Of all
general clerks, photographers and
typists be nxed at $1,000 per annum.
ing classes Of employees be nxed al
follows: Minor clerks. $1,000 per an
mum; chief messengers, 1890 per an.
mum: messengers, $1,000 per annum;
assistant messengers, 5000 per annum;
lsoosssrs elsS Sas conductors s and
@1.262 per annum: packer. 31.1oo per
annum; head charwoman. $500 per
annum: charwomen. $500 per annum;
telephone operators. $1,000 per an
mum: electrician, $3.50 per annum;
sso per per
BY A. 9. Burleson. Postmaster General,
1 Increases in the salaries Of the po-
sitions hereinbefore set forth arc
urgently necessary, not only to on
able the department to maintain an
adequate force, but to provide a just
compensation to the employees as
we'll"
By the District Cenamissisner.-
1.-The Commissioners urge the in
creases recommended. basing their &C.
ton not only upon their own expert
ence in meeting reaueste for Increases
during the past year. but upon the
records Of increases granted BY the
federal government and By activities
generally. Within tho past week the
newspapers announced an increase BY
the government Of railroad wages.
amounting to some 500 .oo6. 900 year.
additional clerk for the committee on
finance At $50 per month. In Bridge
J port. Conn. IT was determined that
the cost Of lying had risen s1.l Per
1T IL believed BY the Commissioners
that the foregoing increases arc im-
~: + sps the public 1a
The reason that conditions bay: ;.
+, opinion that the government service
cannot b operated unless the said In.
creasso are granted"
| - Oeenaai1s FsrA. paAlls DEantsss
that . dollar Of 1914 10 but g oents
today, but the fast that . large mum.
ber Of employees Of the government
printing ONCE have 6een 0oiloitsd b.
other departments and bureaus. a.
we'll ~ commercial Institutions. and
offers made. which have bsen hard for
done 70 upon the assurance inst SAe
public printer would meet tho sttua-
tton. g he should. By ssoomnsndinO
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