Show l' l k Ogden Department If Iff Bureau Republican f I MAIL CLERKS SAY I I THEY WILL QUIT L Declare Work is Too Heavy I and Too Toor i Pay r Small 1 SERVICE IS DEMORALIZED New 1 Fast nL Trains nc In cr and Pile Up UJ Sacks Sack at n t O f An unusual amount of tJ fa- fa bit exists among the railway a postal clerks who tun run ui into und and out of Ogden and unless certain of or their demands are arc soon granted d b by the government o over o J half of the lie oldest t mon inn in the fot service Ice 1 declare they will In a afew at t few tiny days fh Tho whole railway service ser n at aL this point is Mild to be In a badly demoralized condition The railway mall mail service el has difficulty tiltil tilt dif il uit In iii securing men who will re n retain i- i alit tain their positions and anti many m men who vho have taken talen the examinations for L railway postal clerks have refused ed to accept po positions after aCter their thc names have ha been placed on the Uw eligible lI lists It II Is declared that the trouble Is due dueA A to the fact that men who have h been promoted have ha ben been denied Increases in III salary which they ther claim arc ate due them that the work olk Is hard haid and dangerous and that the pa pay Is small l Examinations were called recently forS' forS for COl S' S r I I Reno Heno Nov e and Albuquerque N. 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M and md there was not nol an applicant for fOl ex examination cx- cx at either cither place Malls Carried By Br I Since the lie Inauguration of the fast fasti L i mall train between Omaha and anel the I coast January 1 the running I beep been reduced twenty four hours but hut butr I II I r there thero Is even en a smaller force of or clerks on the tho mail now than before the chan change e The clerks clerics are ale expected to to work the tho sumo same amount of mall mail as heretofore in twenty four hours less time and the result has been that thousands of or letters lettel's and other of ot mall mail have haw been carried beyond their theiry y destination to Oakland Molo Mok ok 4 1 Mall Mali all that should have haYe been iCen distributed at Hazen for Tonopah and other othel points alon along t the he line and between Hazen Hazemi and the tho coast Is carried to the thc Mole Iole where S i it Is worked b by a force of ot men who according to the postal regulations should be enjoying a much needed sleep and then therm doubled back over the theline line four twenty hours hour late ate and IIi finally delivered to its destination Since the lie weighing of until mail has uj begun be u- j gun in Ogden the already unpleasant I a. I F situation has hus aS assumed d a a. woi-se woi s 1 Jn In order to withhold nm fm-nm the laii railroad rail rail- i i. i road contract the thc extra n double back A haul from Oakland Moio luJo to lo lIa n. ln the 4 J has been holding inO Int in 1 t O Ogden nil Jill of the usual over load of or J I mail maJl which was previously taken to Oakland 1 Mole thie l le Sat Saturday rd This overloud overload amounted to seventeen truck loads or GOO Got sacks s of or papers papers' s' s which were left Jcl front from the tho consignment brought In on Union K JT Pacific No o. o-o. 9 The result was as that live five wear weary clerks who had Just reached the city on Southern Pacific No I. 10 anti and eight others who ho had just jUIL completed a fort fort-el forty eight ht hour grind spent Silent the entire entin night sortinG soiling the overload PO ro that It could h IK be sent on Oil It ti to UK Its cl destination yesterday morning morn tuorn- It is thus lug ing twenty four hours late lato plain that though the new mall mail trains have cut cuL down n the running time br- br tween Ogden and anel the coast mall reaches tho thu const t much later than before before be be- fore Core amul that the men who WUl work in lit the theT T mall curs cats ate are worked harder Statements of Clerks A who called upon the clerks decks s sas as thc they were WIO doing their theil overtime o work was greeted with the tIme following tat Now mb do elo you wonder wh why the railway railway rail rail- wa way Jo postal tal clerks chIs are alC rc resigning at the rate rale of ur one O a n. day diy and a wh why no ito onO one S cares to work In the time service If H I cant can't get ct another job jub pretty fleetlY soon soomi I Iam Im am m going oln out to live lI on handouts s. s Tho rho postal regulatIons specify that a layoff especially after a fOlt forty eight h hour ul run is IN for the purpose c of or res rest Iest and st study ud Do Does Doos th this Is look like rest other ono of the 01 oldest men In tho thi s ms service r said hl The railway mAil mall service ser I Is be becoming becoming be- be coming so Intolerable that no mat man with o ordinary 1111 II an Intelligence cares to work In Jn It Th The Tho more a n man can call find time to 0 ilo 10 mb the more work Is thrust upon him Every man in the service sel Is disheartened and over oyer half of or them arc lIC read ready to quit lUit From Flom the story told b by this tho men It appears that a small and decreasing force of men Is now doing doln- the work that the they sa say should bo ue left lert to a force Corce twice as aJ lal largo large With tho dall dally r resignations resignations sl nations accidents ts tR and i tho tle fact that men will ilI not enter the service the tho force Corce of good men Is now so small mall that most of or tio tH clerks arc aro doing two mens men's work Several e of ot the time old oldest st men mell on tho the 0 Ogden Cheyenne den and runs have havo raced thou their resignations to take talc effect March Mu-ch 1 L Over O half of the helpers who are arc running running- between Ogden and anti the tho c coast havo r also expressed cel their thell Intention of re resigning l before summer |