Show PAY TOO SMALL I IfOR fOR THE I C CLERKS I Postal Service Lost 2340 Men I by Resignation During the Past Year MUST BOOST BOOST THE SALARIES t I REPORT OF FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL I Washington Dec Dee 30 Failure at this time to increase materially the romen compensation compensation of po poto postoffice thus thug thu keep keel keepIng keelIng keepIng Ing pace with the advancing wages in to other lines line of f employment will seriously Jeopardize the efficiency of the service This statement Is la taken train from the an annual annual annual nual report of First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock made public today The need of now legislation to tu make the postal service more moro attractive in order to retain present and as an nn induce inducement inducement inducement ment for good men to enter tho service Is treated extensively ely by b Mr Ir Hitchcock who presents u a for tho the consideration tion of congress Resignations from the service have increased at ot an alarming alarm Ill rate and tho the standard of or irien going into the th service has greatly deteriorated d teri in nt tho the last fiscal year ear earGood Good Men Getting Out I Mr 11 report shows that in first and second class claM offices there were approximately n clerks cl In the grades ranging from to 1000 and nd of these clerks clerk 2340 or about per cent re resigned resigned resigned signed during tho the year ear Of letter carriers cartler attached to these th offices s COi or about 26 per cent voluntarily left the service eenice Mr Hitchcock recommends recommend rt establishing for both clerks call crYl carriers six Fix grades Of compensation the annual salary to b bID be beW I SOW W ID for the th initial grade wo Suo for the second grade and an for the four succeed succeeding succeedIng ing ng grades 1100 and l 00 re to respectively and of providing for the ad advancement advancement of oC clerks and carriers in frat I class cIa offices from the Initial grad to soo after r one years yearn service to Vw after two twe years Y service serle to 1000 after aft three years ears service and for the at ae a of oC clerks and carriers carrl rs In s send ond end elates class offices to after one years year service i and to JOO AX after atter two years jears ears service service ice lee Graded on Efficiency The proposed plan leaves to the Ul de department department the distribution of promotions based on efficiency ney above the SI 1000 l lIn In first class elms offices and above the rat vi J grade grudo in second class offices The ms n features of the salary plat plan just outlined says Bays the report ar first the establishment of the den i and carrier services on exactly the sat footing as to rate mb of compensation atlon and opportunity for promotions second th the enforcement of the tho Important principle that promotions in both services shall lie it made only on satisfactory evidence of ef of efficiency f and third the th creation of rr re r tain thin grades g above the maximum salaries leached by b annual progression lon that ran can a ab be b utilized by the department to adjust salaries n accordance with varying i 1 ical cal cai conditions It IH is proposed to grant thirty days das an annual annual nual mini leave to postoffice clerks and cv ca a aHers Hers instead of or fifteen days das as aa at pres present ent There will bo be submitted with the rr TI report port of Mr Hitchcock a draft of a It bill hIll embodying the features of ot t tu tie i plan |