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Show TELEGRAMS IRE SENT TO WASHINGTON BY I M. S. CLERKS Responding to a lengthy telegram sent him Saturday night by the railway rail-way mail clerks residing in Ogden, as a body, United States Senator William H. King stated yesterday that he would place the present troubles of the clerks before Postmaster General Burleson Burl-eson and ask protection for them Similar Sim-ilar telegrams were sent to Senator Reed Smoot and Congressman M. H. Welling and to the civil service commission. com-mission. The telegram sent to Senator King, which was drafted at a meeting of R. M. S. clerks, held in the council chamber cham-ber at the city hall, Saturday afternoon, after-noon, is as follows: "Please ascertain if it is with the full knowledge and consent of the president of the United States that railway mall clerks are being arbitrarily arbitrar-ily moved from place to place, threatened threat-ened with reductions in salary or placed plac-ed on a surplus list. "Thirty-six clerks of the Ogden-San Francisco line alune have been offered their choice of accepting assignments in eastern terminals; if they accept I these positions it will mean a reduction reduc-tion in salary from Class C line at $1500 per annum, to Class A terminal at $1200 per annum "In this hour when corporations are voluntarily increasing wages and bettering bet-tering conditions, does it become the government to reduce the wages of its old faithful employes? All we ask is that the postofflce department carry out its obligations and give us the salaries sal-aries which we were promised when we accepted appointments to this line under civil service rules and regulations. regula-tions. (Signed.) "OGDEN RAILWAY M AIL TLERKS ' To this Senator King replied: "Your telegram received Am surf the president has no knowledge of the matter referred to transferring mail clerks from place to place and threat ened reduction in salary Will appeal immediately to postmaster general U protect you from the threatened act of Injustice. (Signed) -WILLIAM H. KING." |