Evening star., 1948-04-24

for postal workers as contraSted with other
Government employees saves the Post Office
$42, 900 a year,.
Other distinctions in working conditions be-
tween the postal workers and other Govern
ment workers are: Postal clerks regularly are
required to work on Saturdays and Sundays;
postal carriers are required to work regularly on
Saturdays; on legal holidays large percentage
of clerks must work as they do on regular
business day, and postal clerks on their own
time must continually learn new mail distribu-
tion schemes" on which they are examined and
graded at regular intervals.
Overtime is not paid postal employees for Sat-
urday, Sunday and legal holiday work Except
Christmas. They are given an equivalent
amount of time off, usually the following week.
But the fact remains that unlike other Govern
ment workers with regular hours the postal
employe can be detailed for service at prac-
tically any time of the day. In the larger post
Offices, for example, there is regular 2:30 pm.
to II pm. shift for clerks. Workers on this
shift certainly would be happy to trade their
hours for am. to pm. work day.
To sum up, the postal worker certainly de-
serves the same treatment accorded other Gov
ernment workers in matters of working condi-
tions, and sick and annual leave-or additional
compensation for unequal treatment. And it is
on the latter that Congress is considering bills
to make the postal annual wage increase higher
than for other agencies.
JOSEPH G. LYNOTT,
Secretary, Branch 227, National Association
of Postal Supervisors, darlington Station,
Arlington, Va.
abandonment of War"
TO the Editor of The STAR
Preparation for war Though it may be
called preparation for defense) and the propa-
ganda connected with it are treason against
the human race and an insult to the inteli-
gence of man.
The world has been ruled by war since the
dawn of history. Progressively, we have been
brought at last face to face with the horror
of its logical conclusion-mass killing and
manning of men, women and children; chaos
and ruin; perhaps termination of the exist
ence of man on earth.
But our leaders refuse to deviate one iota
from military course Instead, they only
intensity their efforts. Every activity is to be
geared and controlled in the minutest detail
to war. Every man. woman and child, If not
in one way, then in another, is to be slave to
miitarism-a cruel wicked, senseless slavery.
we lear an atom pOHp dtCaCk py ruSSid.
Why shouldn't we? I think we will go down in
infamy as having initiated atomic warfare
and persisted in race for its continuance.
Stain alone, as has been said could not
control this world, nor could we, nor could
any other nation
Winston Churchill has asserted that World
War II could have been averted had not men,
though honorable and well-intentioned, erred.
But men always will err. 1t is human. Mr..
Churchill's significant, profound observation
means man should not be allowed the weapons
of war
We at present are the leading nation. Let
us prove an instrument of destiny. Let Con-
gress declare at once for the abandonment
of war. The world would be electrified. So
profound an incentive would cause the human
race to arise from the fear and despair that
now are overwhelming 1t. M. P. w.