The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
ADVANCE GRADE
OF SERVICE MEN
Postmaster German Gets
Order to Recognize Men
Who Served.
BACK PAY COMING
order Grants Eight Hours Ad-
vance for Every Day Spent
in the Service.

A little coterie of Kenosha men who
saw service in the world war under
the Stars and Stripes are to receive
consideration from the United States
government at once. This announce
ment was made at the post Office this
morning when Postmaster James Cor
man received from Washington a
formal order relating to the regarding
OF employees of the Kenosha office and
under thIs order the men who served
in France and in military camps in
this country will be given credit in
their standing in the Office for every
day served in the military organization
OF the nation. The order VIII effect
the pay of more than half dozen men
employed as carriers and clerks in the
kenosha Office who were in the service
and as the order is made effective as
of June 5, 1920, several Cf the men
will have neat sums coming to them in
the way of back pay.
The order as it is understood in Ke-
nosha official circlse, provides that
every man who was in the postal
ice of the army, the navy or the ma
rines shall be credited in his grading
for all service under the colors.
Eight Hours for Each Day.
The provision is that each ex-service
caaR-oshall be credited with service in
the post Office department. to the
amount of eight hours for each day
actually served in the military branches
of the government. In other words,
the grade of the men who served is
the same as if they had served all Of
the time in the postal service which
was served under arms. Advanced
grading will be possible for all the men
who served and and the advance in the
grade of the employee means a con
siderable advance in salary. The order
is effective for all men who were in the
service on June 9Th or who may have
entered the service after that date.
To Whom Order Applies.
The formal order as received by
Postmaster German saws:
l. The attention of postmasters is
particularly directed to the fact that
the foregoing provisions relate only to
regular clerks, regular city carriers,
classified substitute clerks, and elias
sifed substitute city carriers who were
in the service June 5, 1920. Employees
in the classes enumerated who were
not in the service on June 5, 1920, are
not affected by those provisions.
further directed to the fact that any
clerk or carrier in the $500 grade on
June 5, 1920, or who was promoted to
the $500 grade on July !, 1920, can
not be allowed any additional credit
under the provisions above referred to.
Much unnecessary correspondence may
be avoided if these two essential points
are always observed.
Reports to be Forwarded.
Postmasters should forward to the
department. Immediately statement
showing the total number of hours of
service performed as a classified sub
stitute clerk or city letter carrier, or
BOTH as the case may be, concerning
every regular clerk or carrier (not
those now carried as substitutes who
served in the military, marine, or naval
service of the United States during the
World War who is not eliminated from
consideration by the two preceding
paragraphs. Such report should be ac-
companied with a further statement
showing the period of service with the
military, marine, or naval forces of the
United States during the World War.
A certified copy of the employees hon
orable discharge from such service
should be forwarded to the department
with these reports, in order that the
statement of such service may be veri-
fed. Certified copies instead of the
originals must be submitted in order
that they may be filed with the other
papers. These copies must be sworn
to before a notary public, or other of
ficer authorized to administer oaths,
who uses an impression seal. There
should be transmitted with these re-
ports recommendations of postmasters
on Form 1888, in triplicate, for such
promotion or additional promotion to
which the employees concerned were
entitled on July l, 1920, or at the be-
ginning of any quarter thereafter or
on the date of their advancement to
the regular roll, in accordance with
the foregoing provisions and the in
structions which follow.
General Instructions.
1. 1t will be noted that all en-
ployees to whom the above-quoted pro-
vision applies who were carried on the
rolls on June 5, 1920, as regular clerks
or city letter carriers shall be assigned