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Demands winter wearing apparel such as OVERCOATS -- SUITS -- SWEATERS UNDERWEAR---HEAVY HOSE--CAPS We Have Them All. George Van Horne |. Phone 362w. 213 PRINCESS ST. : (Opposite Grand Opera House) Gruen Guild gold or gold filled. LADIES' WRIST WATCHES LASSES. that merely G seem helpful to your sight are not necessar- $20 to $3500 ily the lenses that will cor- rect your vision any more than a pleasant-to-taste drug WATCHES Watches The Gruen Watch is making an enviable reputation for it- self by its accuracy and preci- 8ion--not to mention the beau- titul designs in cases-- whether it be a Lady's Wristlet or a Gentleman's thin model, solid GENTLEMAN'S THIN MODEL CAUSE OF The following statement from W. J. Cantwell, president of the Domin- ion Postal Clerk's association, sets forth the claim of the members of the postal service for increased pay: Postoffice employees, in common | with all other wage-earners in this |country, for the past elght years | have been, by organized effort, at- | tempting to impress upon .the gov- ernment the necessity of paying them fa living wage, and it is the purpose | of this statement to place before the | general public, as briefly, concisely and dispassionately as possible, a summary of the efforts put forth by { the Dominion Postal Clerks' associa- tion, in conjunction with other civil | service organizations in this direcy | tion, and to show how fruitless these | efforts have been. \ | Postal employees, during this per- {lod, have watched with intelligent interest "the improvement that has { been brought about in living condi-| | tions of their fellow citizens in other | | walks of life, and are not unmindful | |of the fact that this improvement { has been largely, if not entirely, the | result of organized effort. | | The Dominion Postal Clerks' as- | sociation, with a proper conception of what must follow any well organi- zed interruption of postal facilities, {feels that it should not be necessary | to use sterner methods than have hi- {thérto been resorted to to obtain re- | lief, but feel nevertheless that they | | have dertain obligations which they | owe their fzuailies that can noonger | be disregarded : i and | which must be respected by - their | employers, who é the people of this country, to whom this appeal is| addressed. The government, the recognized directors of the country, has, for some reason that we cannot unders UNREST uk ~ IN'POSTAL SERVICE President of Postal Clerks' Association Sets Forth Sia tion And Appeals For Public Support. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. i SE SHOE BARGAINS lil 1 Hy creases were obtainable. This held hundreds of employees at a maxi- mum salary of $1,000; compelled fa- thers of families to send immature children into the labor market to help keep the wolf from the door, and re- quired those same fathers to spend the hours that should be given to re- | Jdaxation in earning, at other occupa- tions, the difference between $1,000 and what {t costs to raise a family. Those who surmounted the barrier proceeded as follows: Sixth year, $1,- 100; seventh year, $1,200; eighth year, $1,300; ninth year, $1,400. This was the maximum salary ob- tainable by 96 per cent. of postal clerks after giving the nine best years of their life to the service of the postoftice department in acquir- ing a techmical training, of little or no value to them afterwards, as it cannot be capitalized in the commer- cial or industrial world. TITHE In GAIN -- princ.pies of this plan were approved by these officials, who also agreed With our organization that in many instances the proposed salaries were {too low. The next step was an ap- {peal to the civil service commission against a plan that would have produced chaos where order had for- merly obtained. Bonus. When the war was practically over | after persistent, humiliating begg ng for relief, which almost culminated in a strike, the government supple- mented these salaries by a bonus of $100, which was increased later, by various amounts, until the existing bonus regulations, evolved by so-call- | ed experts, were put into effect and | Supposed to represent the difference | 'So many protests had been recelv- between the normal "and abnormal led by the civil service commission cost of living. The regulations under | against the classification, from civil which it is paid operate as a surtax |servants generally, that the commis- on--unmarried civil servants and re- |sion saw the necessity of appointing duces the efficiency of these em- | what is known as a board of hearing ployees. It also brands the govern- and recommendation to deal with ment .as an eléemosynary institution., | these co aints and correct the er- In effect, the bonus regulations in- |rors made by the efficiency experts: creased the remuneration. of postal | - clerks as follows: Head of Household--Minimum: Monthly salary, $50; bonus, $35; to- Board of Hearing. The New Salary Schedules. Under the new classification, which | has Just become operative, the sal- SPECIAL BARGAINS IN MEN'S SHOES--SPECIAL BARGAINS IN LADIES' SHOES -- REAL BAR- S IN GIRLS', BOYS' CHILDREN'S SHOES. Abernethy's Shoe Store SS EEE ENTE, AND ' H HTT AS TE ie KROEHLER DAVEN-O |i] Ji RRR RHE A stand, faled te apply-the remedy. tal, $85. Maximum: Monthly salary, | We feel, therefore, that the business | $116.67; bonus, $31; total, $147.67. | men and the public generally, if the |. Non-head of Household--Mini- "| facts are placed before them, will mum: Monthly salary, $50; bonus, | bring such pressure to bear as will $21; total, $71. Maximum: Monthly | persuade the government to .pay its salary, $116.67; bonus, $11; total, | postal "clerks sufficient remuneration | $127.67, . » | to provide their families with the ne- | Mr. Businessman, how long would ear ere | cessitles of life and save them from your employees tolerate this diserim- {the humiliation which they are at ination without going on strike? present enduring. It is not pleasant| It should be pointed out that while | prove interesting to compare these | to realize that one's fellow citizens the greatest publicity was given the | salaries with the scale recommended | In other spheres of life, performing fact that postal clerks' had been | by the American experts and approv- {aries of postal clerks in this country [are not such as to attract to.and re- {tain in the service the best type of | employee, The United States gov- | ernment has just revised the salaries {of its postal clerks, and the new | scale, which came into effect on July | 1st, 1920, is referred to by the Am- erican press generally as being alto- | gether inadequate, It will therefore is certain to correct some other physical ailment. Al- low our optometrist to look back through your pupil-- back through the cornea of your eyes at the crystalline lens. . If there are no opa- cities he will discover by other: tests the manner in which your weakened eye muscles have interfered with your sight, $35 to $300 Sold only by:-- The High Rent Problem AND THE IMPOR1ANCE of MAKING SMALLER HOMES ATTRACTIVR AS WELL AS COMFORTABLE Everywhere people arc-confronted by the necessity of either renting a room or two or moving into smaller apartments. We emphasize the advantage of DAVENPORTS and DAY BEDS as the logical selection for Jewellers overcoming space limitation. 100 PRINCESS STREET | ay TO RENT Two well heated, unfurnished rooms; first floor. Telegraph Building. Apply: MR. KIRKPATRIOK On premises The House of Better Glasses Opposite the Post Office Phone 0609. KINGSTON, HIS MASTER'S VOICE RECORDS Peachie (Yellen-Gumble) In Old Manila (Mary Earl) Just Like the House That Jack Built--Fox Trot Yerkes' Blue Bird Orchestra Scandal Walk--Fox Trot Yerkes' Blue Bird Orchestra Cohen Talks About the Ladies (Humorous Monologue) Monroe Silver Cohen at the Movies (Humorous Monologue) Monroe Silver Any Place Would be Wonderful With You--Fox Trot (Intr. "The Girl of My Dreams") Diamond Trio HE Kismet--Fox Trot Yerkes' Blue Bird Orchestra i I'm In Heaven When I'nr In My Mother's Arms | if Lewis James i Lewis James I Hi i il 216196 Hart and Shaw 10 in, $1.00 216107 10 in. $1.00 216104 10 in. $1.00 216195 10 in. $1.00 '216205 10 in. $1.00 I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time JOHNSON, EDWARD 64905 Fedora--Amor ti vieta di non amar Giordano 16-in. list $1.25 (My Love Compels Thy Love). Hart and Shaw | i ZANELLI, RENATO 64907--Zaza--Zaza piccola zingara 10-in. list price (Zaza, Little Gypsy). cseeest $1.25 ALDA, FRANCES 64908 By the Waters of Minnatonka Cavanass-Lieurance 10-in $1.25 : HARROLD, ORVILLE 64909 When Your Ship Comes In--Lily Strickland, 10 in. ...$1.25 J \ ELMAN, MISCHA 74643 Nocturne Grieg-Elman 12-in .......00ueeun... esac $2 R. J. RODGER 132 PRINCESS STREET COMPLETE STOCK TO CHOOSE FROM .00 Se Special Values In Footwear Men's Brown and Black Calf Boots-- in recede and broad toes; excellent : quality and value .............$5.75 Women's Highcut Black or Brown Shoes, with Louis or Military heels $4.95 Several odd lines in Children's Shoes at greatly reduced prices. Allan M. Reid, SHOE STORE HRD Wy TTT AO in many instances duties that require | a lower standard of intelligence, and less education; are being higher salaries. Postal clerks specialize in what is regarded as a technical clerical sys- tem, and are not only required to qualify for appointment to the ser- vice by an educational test, but are compelled to maintain their «ificien- cy by passing yearly examinations and distribution. Failure to pass these examinations result. i the for. feiture of annual increases in salary, As a consequence inefficiency carries with it its own penalty. paid much Remuneration of Postal Clerks. Employers of labor, who have sur- vived the past eight years, realize to what 2 their outlay for wages has idtreased for that period, and the following figures are sufficiently eloquent not to require argument to convince them that employment in the postal service of Canada has ceased to hold out. inducements to the type of individual which has made it the most efficient public util- ity in existence today: To what an extent this effictency is being im- paired is best known to the officials and employees of the service, and 1s illustrated by the fact that in one large postoffice alone approximately five hundred employees severed thelr connection. with .the service to seek more lucrative employment else- where during the past twelve months. The reason is not far to seek, and is contained in these figures, which show the salaries hitherto paid by {| the governmeat to postal clerks: First year, $600; second year, $700; third year, $800; fourth year, 1/1 $900; fifth year, $1,000. Then, up till quite recently, a bar- rier was reached in the form of an academic test, which had to be sur- mounted--no matter how efficient the standpoint--before further In- -~ = DODD'S "KIDNEY ~ RL bARY granted a bonus of $420, this amount | was only given to employees with de- pendents, whose salaries were below | | the poverty line. | It should not be forgotten that this irelief, meager as it is, was of com- | paratively recent date. In the British | service, at a time when the fate of !the empire was in the balance, the government of the motherland found | time to provide bonuses for its pos- {tal employees, and also found the {necessary funds to increase those® | bonuses from ¥ear to year, to keep pace with the increasing cost of liv- | ing, and did not discriminate be- | tween its marred and unmarried em- ployees. : Reclassification, One of the planks in the platform of the Borden administration was 'civil service reform and the aboli- 'tion of the patronage evil." This led to the, appointment of the Arthur | Young company, of Chicago, some- times described as efficiency experts, to reclassify the federal service, un- der the 'direction of the civil service commission. Following the engage- ,ment of this firm, all representations made to the government were met with the 'statement that no action could be taken pending the report of these experts, and the intimations were broadly given that this so-called reclassification would be a pa. cea for all the ills of the service, The arduous labors of this firm, of Am- erican experts, which<cost the coun- try thousands of dollars, appeared to have been ended with the publica- tion of a large volume in June, 1919, containing the suggested calary schedules for the different civil ser- vice positions. An examination of this volume by committee of em- ployees immediately led the Domin- ion Postal Clerks' association to the conclusion that the adoption of the proposed organization of the postal ed by our government: Canadian Service--First year, $840; bonus, $252; total, $1,092. Seventh year, $1,500; bonus, $102; total, $1,602. American Service--First year, $1,- 400; no bonus. Jifth year, §1,800; no bonus. Experts, $1,900. Sorters, | $2,000, The figures quoted above for the American service recognize no dis- Phone 147 for Service. JAMES REID The Leading Undertaker. - tinction between married and unmar- ried employees, and in this respect | adheres to the principle followed by | employers of labor generally; equal | pay for equal work. The bonus fig- ures quoted in the case of the Cana- dian service represent the maximum amount of relief granted to postal clerks without dependents in this country, to offset the high cost of living, and it is generally understood that this réllef will be withdrawn when conditions revert to normal. | Employees with dependents receive | a slightly higher bonus, on a similar sliding scale; but it should be noted | that the maximum' amount granted to the head of a family earning $840 is only $420, which brings the total compensation to $1,260. This is $140 less than a first-year employee with no dependents receives in the Ameri-| can service. The government's own | figures show that the cost of living | has increased 123 per cent. since | 1914, and yet under the new order of things, bonus included, the thorough- ly proficient postal clerk, with-at least nine years' training, has been glven an increase in remuneration of 32 per cent. Attitude of Government. The gavernment has always ex- pressed willingness to meet repre- sentatives of its employees and dis- cuss their grievances with them, but has consistently refused to grant our requests for a board of arbitra- tion and consiliation on the 'ground service would produce administrative problems well nigh impossible of so- lution, and would be so disturbing | in its effect on the personnel of the | service as to bring about a Domin- | lon-wide strike. This was the result | of the labor of a.grouf of then who | frankly 'admitted they had no prev- tous experience in classifying postal services. They undertook neverthe- less, to defend what they had evolv- ed and thereby came into conflict with organized postal clerks, whose executive comsisted of men with years of experience in" postoffice work. This association appointed a committee to prepare an intelligent criticism of the suggested reclassifi- cation of this service, and sumbitted same to the deputy postmaster-gen- eral and his advisers, with an alter- native scheme more adapted to the needs of the postal service. The main RI] TWICE TOLD TALES | News of TEN YEARS AGO. a ) Councillor Rankin will introduce a by-law at the next session of the county council, which proposes that the county take over the Kimgston- Storrington toll road. Professor Adam Shortt, of Ottawa, will deliver a lecturk to Queen's stu- dents this afivern » outlining the advantages offered by a career in the civil service. : Count Tolstoi, the great Russian writer, les dying in a little railway station at Asbapova. / 'With President C. A. » on mous. Herbert Cook, a miller in the em- ploy of the Kingston Milling Com- pany, had his leg broken. when a colt which he was leading xicked him. He is doing nicely. Kingston TWENTY-FIVE YESHS AGO. The Board of Works decided at last night's meeting to recommend a yearly licenso fee of $20 for milk and peddlers. H. Cunningham plans to extensive- ly improve his yacht, the "Hustler," this winter. New running gear and that being the elected representa= tives of thd people it carnot delegate its responsibilities to any other body, and, unlike other employers of labor, it has no reason to exploit its em- ployees for personal gain." We con- tend that we have a right to the same facilitles for an equitable ad- justment of bur compensation that is imposed by legislation upon private employers. 1 We have thus far refrained from disorganizing this great public util- ity, hoping against hope that even- tually the government would appre- ciate that the remuneration of pos- tal clerks should be increased. in keep ing with that of other wage-earners, and with a proper realization of what it would mean to the country, parti- cularly at this time, If we ceased) work collectively, we have hesitated to take this step. Hope deferred, however, maketh the heart sick, and the time has come when patience is no longer regarded as a virtue. We therefore place our case be- fore the tribunal of 'public opinion with the confident assurance that the persuasive eloquence of the public at large will convince the government that the people of Canada do not ex- pect its postal clérks to bear more than their share of the burden tm- posed by the great war, = Respectively submitted, WM, J. CANTWBLL, President Dominion Postal Clerks' Association of Canada. --Advt, A Man of Peace! "I am a man of peace," said Dr. Edwards, M.P., at the cadets' ban- WE WANT YOU TO REDEEM YOUR Charm Tea Cards AND BECOME REGULAR OF, Charm Teas ONCE USED ALWAYS USED USERS clusive homes. very nice shapes. hardwood finishings will be the first. Several young men are planning to stant another curling club here this winter. ¥ Captain Donnelly says that fe is not quite sure of some of the rules of the city council, but that he will be there next year to learn them. James Gunn says he would like to argue with any Toronto man on the relative merits of Queen's and Var- sity in rugby. A mine is like a woman's coat Oft when you hunt around, It takes a year or before quet on Mouday night, and there was a roar. "I do not know whether to take it as a mark of confidence or distrust," added the speaker after the laughter had subsided. "Oh, -con- fidence, sure!" said Gen! Macdon- ell. "I took it that way," remarked the doctor, who went on and made an admirable address. Westport Visitorss Westport, Nov, 15--H. E. Whit- "Patrician" & "Adan" A GIFT THAT WILL LAST What more delightful and durable gift can be imagined than this plate in above patterns, the most fastidious hostess in the most ex- beautiful - silver It is treasured by We carry a complete line of these goods. Crown Derby China just to hand. Some Menzie has sold his brick residence on Bedford street to Fred Hull, Chantry. William Arthurs, of the Merchants Bank staff, Athens, spent comb, Ottawa, has' purchased the! The pocket can be found. and is now in possession. \ Sth. grocery business of H.C. McEwenL. McCann, Mr. and Mrs. _ James Watertown, N.Y. spent the week- the week-end in town. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sears, end with Mr. and Mrs. James E. Clifford McEwen left yes- McCann. terday for Yorktom, SBask., where he has gecured a good position. Mr. and Mrs. McLennan, Ogdensburg, N.Y., spent the week-end with Mr, and Mrs. C."J. Speagle. Lod