The Washington times., 1920-05-21
Are POst-Office ErnplOye
Human Beings?

ness concern with its great central office covering
two city blocks, its fifty branch Offices its ESQ sub
stations and fourteen thousand employees requires
supreme managerial abilities the part OF its de-
partment chiefs. They would be receiving salaries
of SIS 900 to $4,000 for such official services in
big commercial organizations. Yet the highest
salary paid to the big four superntendents at the
head Of the four main departments of the great New
York Post-ofhce is only $3,36O year, less than
sos week, and not of these men attained
his position in less than twenty years service
The superintendents of the great railway terminal
postal stations receive less than $40 to $50 week
after serving an average of thirty-hve years each
And we pay more than that to longshoremen and
window-cleaners and drivers of milk-wagons!
We are doing more than this act of cruel injus-
tice to the $780, 900 postal employees of the country
ests The postal service is being crippled by whole
sale designations 1t is becoming impossible to n-'
duce competent men women to fill the vacancies
In the New York post-of1ce alone nearly eight hum
dred designations have occurred within five months
False economy is destroying all efficiency and
ergy that ought to be given to handling the mail is
diverted to nstructng and managing shifting, dis
satisfied organization. The thing is true in all
parts of the country. Our indifference and neglect
the big employer" of the post-ofice workers is
recolling on our own heads.
ough investigation of the facts and is making this
brief urgent statement to it's than two million
readers because many times they have responded
nobly to appeals for worthy action Americans,
and now is time for such action. Congress is not
to blame for the existing conditions The men now
sitting in the Capitol at Washington human be-
ings like the rest Of u.s. They have warm hearts
and ready sympathy and as keen a sense of justice
as any American citizen can have The blame and
the shame for this pitiful injustice to the nations
postal employees are ours as people. 1t is yours
who read this page. 1t is who write and pub
lish it. The change of policy from brutal stngness
careless indifference to fair and liberal Arneri-
policy must be wrought by us, the Americans
who always love fair play.
Write to your Congressman and to both of
your Senators, every one of you men and women
who has heart and an active sense of human
justice. Don't put it off, the time before Congress
will adjourn is short. Urge them to give their most
ardent support to the bill putting into immediate
effect substantial increase of salaries throug ghout
the entire postal service of the United States. Con-
gress will gladly and quickly pass this bill when the
American people rally to its support. IF you don't
know the names of the Senators and Congressman
ask your lettercarrier, or postmaster, or banker.
Let all business houses be heard FROM and all civic
societies and fraternal ORDERS Rescue these postal
toilers from penury and narrow lives and set them
on their feet as American citizens who need not
suffer nor be ashamed in their service of us all. .