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Show Post Office Clerks Good Will Delegation Visit Bingham Canyon A delegation composed of O. M. McD.'iinld of Logan, president presi-dent of the Utah State Assooia-Hon, Assooia-Hon, Irak Brady of . Ogden, secretary-treasurer, J. Everett Seely and Rudolph Dittman of Salt Lake called on the loenl members of the clerks association. associa-tion. President McDonald ouiQined the purpose of the visits to all the offices of the state which is to promote friendship and a feeling feel-ing of pood will among the great family of postal workers. Mr. Seely told of the conditions in the service when he first; came into the Salt Lake post office, starting start-ing at a salary of $41.00 per month, there was a vacation allowance al-lowance of fifteon days if the Postmaster could spare the clerk the time, there was no sick leave, there was no eight1 hour shift, the clerks ha dto work until- everything every-thing was done no matter if it was ton or fifteen hours, the clerks were denied the right to organize or petition congress for aid. Since the organization of the National Federation of Post Office Of-fice clerks conditions in the service ser-vice have been gradually improved improv-ed until now the entrance salary is 1700 per year with a $100 increase in-crease every year until the $2100 grade is reached, we have fifteen days excluding Sundays and holt- ' days, ten days sick leave which h cumulative, eight hour shift within with-in ten consecutive hours, and many other things which J gj 10 help make the clerks job much more desirable today than ever before. However every clerk owes it to himself to affiliate himself with this organization which works for the betterment of the service to the nation and to the post office clerks. An invitation to attend the state convention at Salt Lake, July 17-20, was then given the local clerks, Miss Lola Carrigan, Miss Althea Christcnsen accepted the invitation for themselves and the other clerks who were not present due to luncheon hour. The good willcrs announced their trip a Wonderful success- all clerks visited Iwiving come into the organization. |