New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-22

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it's fifty branch Offices it's ESQ substatons and four
teen thousand employees requires supreme mana
ger1a abilities the part OF it's department chiefs.
They would be receiving salaries of $4,000 to
$4,000 for such official services in big commercial
organizations. Yet the highest salary paid to the
big FOUR superintendent at the head of the four
main departments of the great New York Post
office is only IS, 800 year, or less than Sos week,
and not one OF these men attained his position in
less than tWenty-SeVen years service. The super
lntendents of the great railway terminal postal
stations receive less than $40 to $50 week after
serving average of thirty five years each! And
we pay more than that to longshorenen and
wlndow-cleaners and drivers of milk wagons!
We are doing more than this act of cruel injus-
tce to the 100000 postal employees of the country
We are bringing a serious menace to our own
interests. The postal service is being crippled by
wholesale designations. 1t is becoming impossible
to induce competent men or women to fill the
vacancies. In the New York post-offce alone
nearly eight hundred designations have occurred
within five months False economy is destroying
all efficiency and threatening a collapse of the
service. lime and energy that ought to be given
to handling the mail is diverted to instructing and
managing shifting, dissatisfied organization. The
same thing is true in all parts of the country Our
indifference and neglect as the big employer" of
the pOSt-Othce workers is reColllng our own
heads.
THE LITERARY DIGEST has made thor
ough nvestg cation of the facts and is making this
brlef urgent statement to it's than two million
readers because many times they have responded
nobly to appeals for worthy action as Americans,
and now is a time for such action. Congress is
not to blame for the existing conditions. The men
now sitting in the Capitol at WASHINGTON are human
beings like the rest of U.S. They have warm hearts
and ready sympathy and as keen 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. They are
yours who read this page. They are who write
and publish it. The change of policy from brutal
stnginess careless indifference to a fair and lib
eral American policy must be wrought by U.s. the
Americans who always love fair play.
Write to your Congressman and to both of your
Senator's every one of you and women who
has a 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 throughout
the entire postal service of the United States
Congress will gladly and quickly pass this bill when
the American people rally to it's support. If you
don't know the of the Senators and Con-
gresham ask your letercarrier, or postmaster or
banker. Let all business houses be heard from and
all civic societies and fraternal ORDERS Rescue these
postal toers from perjury and narrow lives and set
them their feet as American citizens who need
not suffer nor be ashamed in their service of us ALL