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Show I WL tiLLiS 10 LETTER CARRIERS IT WELL Pi Tho postal clerks and letter car-erq car-erq of Ogden are arranging to or-nfre or-nfre a committee to support the 7&den bill, which provides an in--ease in salary for the men of this irvice. In spite of the fact that'liv-, that'liv-, expenses have increased remark-,y remark-,y in the past few years, these gov-BOent gov-BOent employes have not had an in-it.se in-it.se in wages to meet the high cost living. Tbev are also advocating a postal ,MCy" that will recognize and follow civil service rules and will gain 3gresslonal recognition that will, nefit the postal employes. One Ogden man, who has been in I e service for twenty-five years, said &t salaries are so that it is noces-p- to employ men from the streets .'positions in the service and that ere are not enough men to properly pdle the mails in the Ogden tergal ter-gal postofflce. These men are paid 5 per month, he said, and they do , remain long, as there are so many )'5 nowadays that pay far belter rhe Ogden clerks and carriers are king to Samuel Gompors, president oi American Federation of Labor, for nelp in adjusting these conditions. , ffl this connection, a letter written by M i TJomas F. Flaherty, secretary and ?J eri i tjewurer of the postal employes' union - to Mr. Gompers Is of interest. Apart ? l cf this letter reads: i iie & ls a resretablo truth that men i I irt quitting the service faster than i recruits can be trained to take their places. This exodus is due mainly, in 10 a i judgment, to the oppressive labor nf 1 policy of the present postal adminis-9 adminis-9 trators. Efforts have been made prob Tdthin the past four years to nullify eTery remedial legislative enactment noff protecting these workers from an' 8 nploitation. The department has v?' asked Uie congress lo abrogate the ex-l ex-l 15 '. Istlng eight-hour, the Sunday closing, V' d the annual promotion laws and to Mi'educe the rate of pay for substitute s l"flblre. Because of these efforts to In-s In-s ' vflde the riphts of the service workers, J tS' i ?s wel1 as numerous other instances ot 1 the j j lack of sympathy for the weitare of 3 i subordinates, the morale of the work-looD, work-looD, fog force has suffered and the men are ' ch y eagerly seeking avenues of escape rf. from service that shows so little re- j rard for its human element." Irwin " on |