EXHIBIT B.-Statement showing some recent wage board increases in the pay of wage board employees-Continued EXHIBIT C.-Table converting hourly increases to annual increases EXHIBIT D.-Table showing distribution of full-time employees in the Classification Act grades, June 1961 Federal income and social security taxes are computed for a married couple with 2 children. No allowance is made for other taxes-State, local, or Federal. Average deductions used in computing taxes in each bracket are based on data reported by taxpayers to the Internal Revenue Service. Loss from depreciation of the dollar is based on the change in the Consumer Price Index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sources: Treasury Department; Bureau of Labor Statistics; the Conference Board. PREPARED STATEMENT OF EVERETT G. GIBSON, LEGISLATIVE DIRECtor of the On behalf of our membership, we want to thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of this committee, for the scheduling of early hearings on S. 2712, providing longevity increases for postal employees and also for its use as a vehicle in considering salary increases for all postal and Federal employees. Our membership are employed in all post office motor vehicle facilities in large cities, both in maintenance and operations, and is composed of garagemen, vehicle operators, tractor-trailer operators, automotive mechanics, technical mechanics and supervisors. Our personnel perform the maintenance on approximaterly 41,000 Government-owned vehicles used by the Post Office Department and the hauling of bulk mails to and from terminals, post offices, and airports in our large cities, including Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The greatest number of our members are in PFS-3, 4, and 5. However, we do have members in PFS-6 through 14. Therefore, we recommend that the committee strike out everything after the enacting clause of S. 2712 and substitute the provisions as contained in H.R. 9531, introduced by Congressman Morrison. This bill provides the longevity features that were vetoed last year and provides an adequate increase which is needed by all postal employees. We would further recommend that consideration be given to employees in PFS-6 through 20 as indicated in enclosure A, which we would like made part of our testimony. The testimony heard by the committee, by both the representatives of the employees of postal and Federal organizations and the administration, have justified that a salary increase is needed at this time and not in 1963, 1964, or 1965. We cannot endorse the administration's pay reform proposal as contained in H.R. 10480, introduced by Congressman Murray, chairman of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee. Such legislation would destroy many features that are now enjoyed by our membership. H.R. 10480 would do away with the longevity for postal and Federal employees and would not give credit to the employees in PFS-6 and above. If they were not in the top step of their level, they would be reduced by $300. The bill does not give an adequate increase to the employees in the lower levels and increases the number of steps from 7 to 13, which means that an employee would not reach the top level until he has 27 years of service. We would have many of our members who would never reach the top level because of reaching the retirement age. It has been our experience, that in certain areas, that it is difficult to recruit automotive mechanics, because of the competition of private industry, and it has been necessary to institute an apprenticeship for automotive mechanics by training our garagemen in order to fill the existing vacancies in this classification. We realize that this committee has a tremendous responsibility in determining the salary increases needed for all postal and Federal employees, but we are confident that a fair and adequate increase will be reported by this committee and that it will be effective in 1962, when it is needed by all these employees. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I want to thank you for allowing me this opportunity to appear before you and give the views of our organization. ENCLOSURE A.-Proposed revision of postal field service schedule levels 6 through 20, H.R. 9531 PREPARED STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS My name is Paul H. Robbins. I am the executive director of the National Society of Professional Engineers with headquarters in Washington, D.C. The society is a nonprofit membership organization composed of professional engineers engaged in virtually all branches of the engineering profession and all fields of professional endeavor. Each of the society's 58,000 members is qualified under applicable State engineering registration laws which certify that registrants thereunder have met the prescribed qualifications for engaging in the practice of professional engineering. The society's membership is affiliated through 53 State and territorial societies and approximately 450 local community chapters. The National Society of Professional Engineers is firmly dedicated to the basic proposition that the Federal Government is entitled to and should have the best engineering and scientific talent obtainable. This attitude has been enhanced and strengthened within the past several years in view of the new and expanded Federal operations relating to space-age activities and national defense. The contribution of the engineering profession to mastering space technology was more than dramatically demonstrated by the recent epoch-making voyage of Lt. Col. John Glenn. The March 2, 1962, issue of Time magazine, at page 15, lists 5 men who stand out amongst the approximately 35,000 people who contributed in substantial ways to the success of Glenn's flight. Four of the five men are engineers. And the next astronaut scheduled to follow Colonel Glenn's threeorbit trail is an aeronautical engineer. The Federal Government cannot afford to wistfully hope to attract, much less retain, engineering personnel of that caliber without providing salaries competitive with private industry. The Federal Government's expanded operations for resource conservation and development, transportation, highways, water and air pollution projects, proposed public works programs and civil defense projects all point up to greater and increased demands for high-caliber engineering personnel. While all of us are justly and rightly concerned with the increased budget demands of such programs, it should be pointed out that one of the primary functions of the engineer is increased project efficiency-and getting the most out of each dollar spent. In furthering the society's basic position that the Federal Government is entitled to and should have the best engineering and scientific talent obtainable, we have cooperated in a variety of ways with the Congress, the Civil Service Commission, this committee, and various Federal agencies and departments in an effort to improve the competitive position of the Government in recruiting and retaining adequate numbers of qualified, competent engineers. To this end, over the past several years, we have supported and encouraged measures which would (1) raise Federal salaries to a level more comparable with present rates for engineers and scientists in nongovernmental pursuits; (2) authorize the payment of travel and |