Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads: United States Senate, Sixty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 9859 an Act Making Appropriations for the Service of the Post Office Department for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1923, and for Other Purposes ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - 274 pages |
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Page 229 - An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and for other purposes...
Page 125 - General is hereby authorized to pay a cash reward for any invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions for an improvement or economy in device, design, or process applicable to the Postal Service submitted by one or more employees of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service which shall be adopted for use and will clearly effect a material economy or increase efficiency...
Page 242 - That the eight hours of service shall not extend over a longer period than ten consecutive hours, and the schedules of duty of the employees shall be regulated accordingly: Provided further, That in cases of emergency, or if the needs of the service require...
Page 264 - Service shall be granted fifteen days' leave of absence with pay, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, each fiscal year, and sick leave with pay at the rate of ten days a year, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, to be cumulative, but no sick leave with pay in excess of thirty days shall be granted during any one fiscal year.
Page 268 - That the Postmaster General is authorized to contract with any individual, firm, or corporation for the transportation of air mail by aircraft between such points as he may designate...
Page 125 - ... of the Ordnance Department as he may select a cash reward for the suggestion, or series of suggestions, for an improvement or economy in manufacturing processes or plant, submitted within the period by one or more employees of the establishment which shall be deemed the most valuable of those submitted and adopted for use : Provided, That to obtain this reward the winning suggestion must...
Page 229 - ... days of eight hours served as substitute, and appointed to the grade to which such clerk or carrier would have progressed had his original appointment as substitute been to grade one...
Page 242 - Lawrence introduced the following bill, which was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. A BILL TO ESTABLISH A LIBRARY POST.
Page 233 - Washington, DC The committee met at 10.30 o'clock am, pursuant to adjournment on yesterday, in room 224 Senate Office Building, Senator James E.
Page 229 - Postal employes and substitute postal employes who served in the military, marine or naval service of the united States during the world war and have not reached the maximum grade of salary shall receive credit...