The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 15, 1954, Page 5

Monday, March 15, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 8 back for a morale (his, presum- | Cadillacs and drive four blocks. f yeye, has been wandering in and the presence of his mustache. Now | the street, or at a party. They all ably) tour weighed nearly 200.” out of movies as a funny man. He | his problem is to obtain a recog-| Start the same: ‘You know, A Not for a minute, however, is ; ¥ ee ania 4 . | didn’t recognize you without—”’ the he thinking . ood has traveled the show road through | nition which is more than just lip ATE ial inking of saying g y to night clubs, variety and even TV.|sefvice. — ‘ De Wolfe eyes close. : the movies. He’s been gathering It was, however, only a few| “There's more talk in New York) The mustache has been in and impressions of Gotham people ‘and | weeks ago that he first trod the | right now about that mustache than | out of Billy’s professional life like manners which will show up in boards of New York’s legitimate| the Chinese new De Wolfe convulsions when Communists,” is theater, appearing in John Murray | De Wolfe’s restrained summation. he returns West By WILLIAM GLOVER Postal Workers’ Pay Issue Has [Billy de Wolfe Says Audiences Miss Mustache |r se pone Prime Congress Consideration NEW YORK #—Billy de Wolfe; | this town’s new gag chief, is faced By NORMAN WALKER jatiee department: stenographers, | with a problem in recognition bor- WASHINGTON (® — One of the jfile clerks, mail sorting clerks, ree on the aa line. i nation’s biggest and hottest labor | and purchasing agents all are now | Blly’s mustache is missing disputes is being fought right in plaeniicdeas ee na eae the | ¥28 just a trifling brush, about the halls of Congress. | ect | one-half by two inches, but it was je from discour: loss of his mustache, (‘ ought to hang neck, ‘Yes, it’ Wolfe’’), the v top spirits over “I'm feeling healthier, younger a sign around my really Billy de tile comic is a yo-yo. first movie, It involves pay raise demands | of a half million postal workers and nearly a million other federal | workers, The postal pay issue—pitting Postmaster General Arthur Sum- merfield against a number of post- al employe unions—is getting Con- gress’ prime consideration. Ths is different from most labor disputes, but no less intense. Fed eral workers can’t strike against the government, so Congress will make the decision. Meanwhile, the lawmakers are being peppered with advice. The basic scrap is this: Summerfield is proposing a com- plete pay ‘reclassification that would give varying raises to 400,- 000 out of the 500,000 postal em- ployes and would cost 80 million dollars. The unions want every worker to get an $800 annual raise, which Summerfield contends would cost 350 million dollars. Furthermore, Summerfield says the nearly one million other fed- veral workers would expect to get like raises and the cost then would | mount to $1,100,000,000 a year—or $26 for each of the 42 million fam- | ilies in the country. Moreover, Summerfieid contends postal workers’ pay already com- pares favorably with that in pri- vate industry and has kept up with rising livng costs. He says the real need is to cure pay inequities between jobs. The labor organizations maintain their suggested $800 annual raise is “a bare minmum” needed to brng postal pay in line with liv- ing costs. The last raise came n July 1951. The unions also argue that work- ers now are handling a much greater volume of mail per ‘nan, that they are working harder, and thus deserve higher pay. Summerfield is not proposing a general postal salary boost, but mainly a reclassification of jobs according to required skills. The postmaster general says that if workers are paid more in line with the jobs they do, it would aaa the postal service gener- iy: An example cited by the post same maximum pay—$4,070 per | year. Under Summerfield’s plan none | Williams. would receive a pay cut, but steno- | graphers would be hired in the fu- ture at a lower rate anc the highly- skilled purchasing agent would | have an opportunity to boost his | pay well beyond the present limit | for clerks | | field’s plan would give clerks and | among postal workers—an average $100 annual raise. Nothing is pro- | posed now for rural mail carriers The labor groups complain some | | wokers would get as little as an-| other $10 a year, while the big raises—some totaling several thou- sand dollars a year—would go to} supervisors and city postmasters. The unions say they don’t oppose job reclassification, but that a gen- | eral salary boost should come | first. Summerfield says this would only compound present job in- equities. 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