Arizona republican., 1920-06-01
BIC WAGE RAISE FUR POSTAL MEN
 URGED IN REPORT
Salary Increases Totaling $33, ,OOO, ,OOO, in First Year Propose by Joint Congress sionaI Commission After Careful Investigation of Conditions

WASHINGTON. May 31. - Postal employees will be granted increased salaries amounting to 33.0OO.000 the first year, effective July l. if congress follows the recommendations of a joint congressional commission, made public today.
 Increases for the second year would approximate S3S,000,00O and for the third and fourth years S43,000, GOO. The increases for postal clerks and letter carriers would be from $50 to S25a annually. No increases would be granted first class postmasters recefv- ing more than S5,000 a year.
 For rural delivery carriers. the com mission recommended $1.S00 for 24- mile route and an additional $50 for each mile in excess. Motor route carriers covering 90 miles or more would receive not in excess of s2,6o9. The pay of village delivery carriers would be from $1,000 to s1.200
 Divide Carriers Into Four Classes
 Should recommendations of the com mission, based on hearings held. be adopted. clerks a first and second class postoffices and city carriers would be divided into five classes with those in the first class receiving $1,400 annually and S100 added for each class. Substitutes and temporary clerks would receive 50 cents an hour while special clerks would be paid from 1900 to S2.000- Watchmen. messengers and laborers would be divided into two grades, the first receiving S1,S50 and the second $I.450.
 Clerks in the postal mail service would be divided into six classes with those in the first class receiving s1.600: those in the sixth $2.3O0 and the others graduated between.
 Service for all clerks. the commits sion's report recommended. would be on an average of eight hours per day, BOG days per year. Division superin- tendents in the postal mail service. tions, would receive $A.2 annually, assistant superintendents s3,200; chief clerks, $3.000. and assistant chief clerks, $2.500
 Pay of postoffice inspectors would range from $2.30O to Sf2o0 with ar allowance of not more than g. a day for expenses while travelling
 Clerks at division headquarters oi the postoffice inspection service would receive from $1.6o0 to s2.500.
 A graduated increase was proposed for first class postmasters receiving less than $5.000 annually. ranging from S200 to S400 for postmasters now re- ceiving $3000 to s3,700 annually; s4oo to $500 for those now getting between s3.700 and S3,S00 and $500 to $500 for those whose pay now is between S3.900 and s4.000.
 Ea1COH0 CldSS DOSAkldStEIE. WnOSe present salary ranges from g. BOO to s3.000 would receive an increase from S100 to S300. Assistant Dostraasters would receive $50 for each grade up 1 to S2.150. Third class postmasters
 would receive $50 for each grade up to S2.150. Third class postmasters would be increased $500 from basic salaries each the salaries ranging 1 from S1.000 to $2.200. The commission also recommended fourth class post master be allowed 40 per cent on can eellations of S75 per quarter and less; ] 115 per cent from s75 to s10o of can l cellations per quarter and in excess 1 of s100 per quarter, 100 per cent .on | the first S100; 75 per cent bn the next l $100 and 50 per cent on the remainder 1 The commission recommended a l graduated scale of pay based on office ] receipts for supervisory officers in 1 first class postoffices. The scale ranges from S2.2O0 for assistant post masters and $2,10O for superintendents | of mail in offices with receipts between 1 $40.000 and SIS, 1000. to $4,600 for the 1 former and S4,400 for the latter when receipts are above s20.000, 900 annually l Provision also is made for pay in | creases for other supervisors. i Fifteen days vacations annually with pay for all employees and sick leaves of not more than 30 days a year with pay 1 also were recommended.