Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-21
Are Post-Office Employees
Human Beings?

blocks it's fifty branch Offices it's $50 substations,
and fourteen thousand employees, requires supreme
managerial abilities the part OF its department
chiefs. They would be receiving salaries of $25,ooo
SIS 900 for such official services in big commercial
organizations Yet the highest salary paid to the
big four superintendents at the head Of the four
main departments of the great New York post
office is only $336o year, or less than S65 week,
and not one of these men attained his position IN
less than twenty-seven years service. The super
intendents of the great railway terminal postal
stations receive less than SAC 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 mlk-wagons!
We are doing more than this act of cruel injus-
tce to the 100000 postal employees OF the country
We are bringing 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 I'LL the
vacancies. In the New York postofice alone nearly
eight hundred designations have occurred within
five months False economy is destroying all eff
cheney and threatening collapse of the service.
Time and energy that ought to be given to handling
the mail is diverted to instructing and managing
shifting, dissatisfied organization The thing
is true in all parts OF the country Our indifference
and neglect the "big employer Of the post-offce
workers is recoiling own heads.
THE LITERARY DIGEST has made thor
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 as Americans,
and now is a time for such action. Congress is
not to blame for the existing conditions The men
sitting in the Capitol at Washington are human
beings like the rest of us. They have warm hearts
and ready sympathy and as keen sense of justice
any American citizen can have The blame and
the shame for this ptiful injustice to the nations
postal employees people, 1t is yours
who read this page. 1t is who write and publish
it. The change of policy from brutal stingness or
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
put it off; the time before Congress will adjourn is
short. Urge them to give their ardent support
to the bill putting into immediate effect substan-
al 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 names of
the Senators and Congressman ask your letter
carrier, 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
American citizens who need not suffer nor be
ashamed in their service of us all.