Show POWERLESS ERLESS TO 10 PAY THEM MORE Postoffice Post office Department Sympathizes Sympathizes Sympathizes With the Letter Car Carriers Carriers Carriers of Butte Mont Washington Fob reb 16 The rier situation i ill in Butte Mont Is Ii caus causing causIng ing lug serious concern to the officials of the postoffice department The department Is powerless to increase the tha pay pa of pf the twentynine carriers currIers because the existing law forbids ore than s O per ner annum in offices of ot the th class to which Butte be ho belongs b bJong longs Jong The carriers declare they cannot live lIe on the salaries now paid them Ulem or on the tile salaries which are arc promised in the tle pending postoffice a bill and therefore tender their resignations In III a letter to the postmaster general George Irwin Irin postmaster at Butte says 1 have hae repeatedly repeated I Informed the de department that Butte is the time highest hl priced city in tile the United States as well w ll hi as the strongest labor I bor union town The scale for common labor is 18 3 a day d y and the th cost of I Jiving BO ISO e high that the salary now paid Ud The th carriers will Thit afford them th m more inure than a decent living A telegram received today t ay from Post St r says Please take t ke up the tb matter and dis dispose pose of it If we are to do without car carriers carriers carriers we must have term ten t 1 extra clerks when this thing occurs Department in a Quandary Under Inder the tho provisions of or the bill now pending p before the house bouse the salaries of or orthe the carriers in Ia the Butto office will vili no noo exceed o f WO a n year It was WM bv by b First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock ock that the department be afford afforded ed rd ache discretionary authority in the adjustment of s In first and see sec second ond end class offices in order that emergencies eme des cies GUC SUC has bas have arisen at Butte could be met The postoffice appropriation bill provides for an increase in the salaries of clerks and antI carriers to be bf be based on the tile receipts of the office Under the pending measure the tile highest salary salar that can be paid to carriers in an office where wh re rethe the receipts are less than a year car carIs is JuO WO N It has been pointed out to the department by postmasters in various arlous that salaries based on this are arc ar in ine e i to meet local conditions hat may be done regarding the Butt ButU ease lase is problematical The department had not accepted the resignations of the carriers and will not do so 10 for the pros pres present ent eat Tho The situation is realized to be seri serious serious son ous because e in view of local conditions at Butte the time men easily easil may be able to earn more mor money mone In other lines of work If It the entire carrier force toree should it will be necessary to provide additional clerks at the tho Butte Butle office until new flew carriers can be obtained |