Evening star., 1919-09-03
P!=0. CLERKS HERE
RECEIVE QUESTIONS
Information From Replies
. Will Help Commission
Fix Salaries.
CARRIERS COME NEXT

Clerks of the Washington city post
Office today were given questionnaires
10 be filed out and returned to the
joint commission on postal salaries
by September 90. Nearly 500 clerks
received the blanks. on which infor-
nation will be given to help the com
mission. appointed by Congress, to de-
termine equitable salaries for postal
employees.
Letter carriers of the local office
will receive the questionnaires within
several days. The blanks are pink in
color and contain thirty-fve ques-
tions and a blank for suggestions.
Unlike the questionnaires recently
filled out by 104.O 900 other federal en-
pIoyes here fer the joint congression-
AL commission on reclaSsification of
salaries in the District. the postal
blanks do not require that anwers to
question be presented to superior of
ficers for review
Must Return by September 90.
Return of the completed question
naires will be left to the individual
workers. who will mail the docu-
ments when finished to Cecil A
Beasley, secretary of the joint COM
mission on postal salaries. United
States Senate. Unless the question
naire is received by September 20. il
is stated. it will not be considered.
Officials of the city post office anG
postal clerks received green question
naires. which must be completed by
September IS for consideration.
Questions as TO position and COM
pensation are included on both ques.
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Following a series of questions as to
positions and compensation, the du
ties are asked for. The clerk is asked
lnwhat respect is the nature anG
character of his work mot properly
compensated for. as compared with
other employees in the postal service
performing similar work.
Personal" Questions.
Then come the personal" questions
which perhaps hold most interest for
the postal workers. These blanks en-
able the workers. clerks and carriers
to give their side of the cost of liv-
ing" problem pretty thoroughly. Some
OF the questions asked follow:
In what respect and to what amount.
II any, has your salary during the last
twelve months failed to provide, in
keeping with the nature of your posi-
ton as a postal employe. adequate
clothing, rent, insurance and doctors
oliIs, proper recreation, civic, church
and patriotic obligations, or proper
educational advantages for yourself
and those dependent upon you?
What specific sacrifice or self denial
II any, has been necessarily made
either upon the part of yourself or
family during the past welve months
because of inadequate compensation
AS a postal employe?
Is Pay Sufficient?
In order to support and maintain
yourself or family has IL been neces-
sary to augment your salary by cut
siee Work, either by yourself or by
some member of your family?
Have you been unjustly denoted OF
denied a promotion or increased sal
ary, by administrative action or di-
rection, which you are willing to have
investigated? If so, briefly state the
facts.
Assistant City Postmaster Kerlin
in giving out the blanks to the clerks
today, impressed upon the employees
the importance of giving the mos,
careful consideration to the filling
out OF the blanks, reading and di.
gesting all the questions thoroughly
before answering any, making sure
that the information given is cor
rect, and "confning yourself to plain
facts"