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Show Pc::i'iiee Employee -Oat Dccairsc He Refused to ' Work Loiis Hours. .; , NEW YORK. Dec. 10. Waldo W. Valentino, Val-entino, a clerk In the money order department de-partment of the New York postoffice, has been suspended for insubordination. In consequence, the- Postmaauer General, It is tinaeratood, will tare a test case before. Mm shortly, as the claim Is made that Valentine's refusal to work more than elcht hours a day was the basis for h.e suspension and the preferring of charges against him. Valentine, the postofflce officials claim, does not come under the law which makes eight hours the day's work of a letter carrier. They hold that the clerks iust " work juat so many hours as is necessary J to clean up business. Just now things are brisk at the post-ef.lce post-ef.lce wins; to the beginning; of the hcll- . ' day rush, but Valentine refused to remain efter t p. m., because of defective sight. He also claimed the law fixed his day at leht hours. Under civil service rules, he could not be discharged except under I charges which had been prove!. |