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Show INCREASES IN POSTAL SALARIES IS NOW LIKELY (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S. Possibility of further increases in the pay of postal employees em-ployees Is hinted in the reported from the" bouse commit lee on posi of (ices and post roads, presented to the -house today. It recommends the passage of the bll, acted upon yesterday by the committee providing a bonus of .fFiO., "So far as postal emp'oype;s are concerned." con-cerned." saws the report, "the unusua 1 conditions cons: si in the great increase in the cost of living, and this is genera' throughout the country. The general authority au-thority asked for wiil enable tiie department de-partment to retain in tiie service employees em-ployees in cert a in industri-U centers where waes in private industry are unusually un-usually high, by increasing salaries; but such action would be an unjust discrimination discrim-ination against employees !n other localities locali-ties where the cost of living is ewnaily hiiih, and would result in general dissat-isf dissat-isf let ion and tie moral iza 1 ion. "The committee lb ere tore concluded that, pending a complete revision and read. re-ad. i us; ment. of postal sa iaries now un.l or consideration by the joint committee, the best tiling to do was to make specific and uniform Increases hon-!n recommended "Tho department est ima tes the cost of the proposed inert uses at ? pr.n'iO.Ou while the coinmi"ec believes they will 7iot exceed $.;.", muf ,00u. Put, however that may be, the increases are abo!ut.'iy necessary now. and fur' he" and greater 1 n creases will ha vq to be made In nrd- r that the service mav rvaeh and maintain ihut d.'grc nf i-fMcirucv which the public inipera' iv!y dt-ma rids, arid postal reveille reve-ille s. if Inaiifhcb ut. will have to be so reoliustcd as to nu-ct the Increased expenses." |