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Archive Report
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Civil Servants and the Cost of Living
Proposed Salary Increases for Federal Workers
Early in its present session, Congress is expected to adopt a bill which will give pay increases ranging up to $300 a year to some 200,000 federal employees 1 in the lowest salary grades and will establish a minimum annual rate of $1200 for full-time employment in the federal establishment. The bill carries the endorsement of President Roosevelt: it may be the forerunner of a series of similar bills to grant salary increases to other groups of ...