Salaries of Rural Letter Carriers. Hearings...on H.R. 8919...May 4 & 9, 1934 (73-2) |
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... practical question . Sup- pose this bill were enacted just as it was passed in the House . What saving would there be to the Government , if any ? Mr. BRANCH . It is something over a million dollars 8 SALARIES OF RURAL LETTER CARRIERS.
... practical question . Sup- pose this bill were enacted just as it was passed in the House . What saving would there be to the Government , if any ? Mr. BRANCH . It is something over a million dollars 8 SALARIES OF RURAL LETTER CARRIERS.
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... dollars . I will ask Mr. Donaldson what is the estimate of saving under the bill as it passed the House ? Mr. DONALDSON . The saving to the Post Office Department as the bill stands now would be $ 9,395,000 with reference to basic pay ...
... dollars . I will ask Mr. Donaldson what is the estimate of saving under the bill as it passed the House ? Mr. DONALDSON . The saving to the Post Office Department as the bill stands now would be $ 9,395,000 with reference to basic pay ...
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... dollars of that was lost by the amendment providing that there should not be a decrease in the salaries of the carriers on routes 30 miles in length or less of more than $ 180 , which would reduce the saving to $ 9,395,000 . Then the ...
... dollars of that was lost by the amendment providing that there should not be a decrease in the salaries of the carriers on routes 30 miles in length or less of more than $ 180 , which would reduce the saving to $ 9,395,000 . Then the ...
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... dollars . The only way we can effect a saving , with the law hedging us in as it does , is either in reduction of salaries or length of routes , or the equipment allowance , or by consolidation . That is why we ask you to do that , and ...
... dollars . The only way we can effect a saving , with the law hedging us in as it does , is either in reduction of salaries or length of routes , or the equipment allowance , or by consolidation . That is why we ask you to do that , and ...
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... practical question . Sup- pose this bill were enacted just as it was passed in the House . What saving would there be to the Government , if any ? Mr. BRANCH . It is something over a million dollars 8 SALARIES OF RURAL LETTER CARRIERS.
... practical question . Sup- pose this bill were enacted just as it was passed in the House . What saving would there be to the Government , if any ? Mr. BRANCH . It is something over a million dollars 8 SALARIES OF RURAL LETTER CARRIERS.
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20-mile route 30 miles amended amount appropriation ARMSTRONG automobile average cost average number average rural carrier base pay basic pay scale bill BRANCH BROWN carrier body cents a mile cents per mile CHAIRMAN Chevrolet committee comparable consolida consolidation COOPER cost of operating DONALDSON economy employees equipment allowance expenses fact figures furloughs furnish garage give going Government increase Kenneth McKellar less mail carrier McDEVITT McKellar mileage miles in length million dollars months National Rural Letter North Dakota passed the House patrons percent Post Office Department postal Postmaster President receive reduce the equipment reduction retirement riers rural delivery Rural Delivery Service RURAL LETTER CARRIERS rural routes rural service sacrifice Salary Equip saving Senator DAVIS Senator FRAZIER Senator HAYDEN Senator HEBERT Senator LOGAN Senator O'MAHONEY served short routes short-route carriers statement survey thing tion Total
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Page 4 - ... automobiles, the records for which •were submitted by individual Iowa owners and by various State highway departments. There are included 208 records reported from owners of privately operated cars. From information on pages 12 and 13 of this compilation, it will be noted that a Ford, model A, 4-cylinder car, covering 11,000 miles a year, which Is comparable to the annual travel of the average rural carrier, would cost a total of $484.23 to operate. This includes a charge of $4 a month for...
Page 4 - ... that the cost per mile, including even garage rent, for operating Chevrolets is $0.0318 and $0.0336 for Fords. Exhibit E. — This covers passenger cars and material-carrying cars used by the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. in rural territory contiguous to this city. The load of these cars average close to 100 pounds. The travel is over improved highways and unimproved roads. In the three neighboring States of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, the cost of operating Chevrolet automobiles...
Page 38 - We will resume again at 2 o'clock. (Whereupon, at 12 noon, a recess was taken until 2 pm) AFTER RECESS At the expiration of the recess the hearing was resumed, as follows: STATEMENT OF ROBERT H.
Page 2 - ... it will be necessary to accelerate the consolidation program and drop the surplus carriers from the rolls. For obvious reasons, I am reluctant to follow this course. Taking into consideration the hours of daily service required, the salaries of rural carriers are excessive when compared with the salaries of other postal employees. The basic salary of a carrier serving a rural route of average length, which is about 36 miles, is $2,160 per annum, in addition to which he is paid an equipment-maintenance...