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Show POSTOfflCECLERKS AND CITY LETTER CARRIERS RAISED Total Increase of Salaries for Postal Employees Is $6,000,000. WASHINGTON. July t4.Ietsaaattar General Hitcheook today ordered peataa tlons for poetoffloo elerka and ally letter carriers which carry salary increases of about 12.000,000 . ysw, Order, also were Issued for promotions la tbe railway mail service which will total 1171. SO. a year, These increasea are la addition to the In-'creeser In-'creeser for rural mall camera totalling M.eoo.oot a year, which became effective July 1. The four great .roups of postal employ, eee have received Increasee of pay as are sating M.OOO.000 during UM current fiscal year. Poetmaeter General Hitchcock aaya the Increases will be mors than offset by Increased efflclsncy of ths employees, and he bellevee the advances era warranted by the fact that the poeofflce Is sow practically on a eelf eustelnlng heals. |