Show SALT LAKE LETTER CARRIER gets judgment against the tho covern government ment tor for overtime new now york dec I 1 A dispatch from washington gays says it amerman merman post poet a letter carrier ol 01 sl lake city recently sued the government under the eight hour law tor for overtime over titue and a decision was rendered in favor ot of post the government appealed to the united states supreme court the highest court has affirmed the finding euit suit of pest and the decision of court opened the way for 0 of suits to collect claims of 0 a similar character aggregating a very carpe euni sum washington dec 1 by order of As sieland postmaster general heatha has bag been bein made an offense punishable punie bablo by bv dismissal from the service for a letter car 1 riar ri r to work more than eight boure hours a d da P r this is the result of a decision dec irion by the supreme cour court t upholding the claim of A S post pos t a let letter ter cart canie ler of salt sal t lak lake e foi or overtime under the eight hoar boor law of 1838 1888 at lake dec I 1 the news says mr post Is an old soldier who la Is drawing a pension from the government he ile Is well known hero here and was in the em ploy ot of the salt lake during first administration just how the case comes up now is not under understood stool by the local authorities A news man called at postmaster barrante Bar ratte rattle of aaice alice today tor for information but bet dl did a not find the official in in at the time tim charles eCharles 0 slade superintendent of city delivery waa seen b however however he said I 1 lean can not the meaning of this dis dispatch Datch tho the poet post case wal wa passed on by the united states supreme court several years ago with a 4 dumber number of others I 1 hid one ngoong them it happened inthis in this way during cleve I 1 1 lande lands first ai administration ministration wo we were are ahot t of 0 assistance aud and had to work overtime a great deal patting putting in from twelve to tj fourteen hoire everyday every day we felt that we were entitled compensation aa as under the rules A the dep department artmont art ment as we me interpreted Interpret oa them we wire were oaly required to work eight hours a day therefore seven of ua us rue bus 11 II sholes W W W J A S poet S R skidmore L B morse and nd myself raye elf all carriera carr ierg pat put io ia bills billis for extra compensation these were allowed by the court of claim 1 and tho govern ment appealed the casa to the supreme court the tu ati court of firmed the dec dension sion and we all got grot our money janzing ran sint etora to 1000 poet bettit g the larger anio wo we won in all of cur contentions except as to claims tor for sunday co mensal choie were ruled out chis lulng rt continued mr blade slade opened up the way for othe 0 her r situated throughout the united states and ind a flo flod d of baits suits was the ie te suit in order to the claims Cop gresi raised a special appropriation bill ot of more aban a million dollar that wa was yea years ago lio tio wever and the dispatch die patch must ba connected with that in some way I 1 do not believe it can reier refer to any new now phase phs ol 01 thi cas caso as all claims 11 brisini under it were passed upon and paid year ago except ibe the sunday claims which we e declared void recently mr poat who baa has bon been out ot of tho the dep department artmont service for a consid considerable er Z time applied for reinstatement m the wa by the authora 1 lie iea at washington to the officials bern bera but the caso case was adversely passed upon |