WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 163

NO. 4
(Senate Joint Resolution No. 4)

Joint Resolution requesting the Congress of the United States
to enact legislation providing for salary increases for postal
employees.

WHEREAS, the price of all commodities and services has been
continuously rising since 1939, with every indication that the
advance in prices will continue; and

WHEREAS, this condition of high prices has lowered the
standards of living for all postal employees, increased in-
debtedness, threatened ownership of homes, and dissipated
savings; and

WHEREAS, this lowered standard of living for postal em-
ployees seriously threatens the efficiency of the Postal Services
by the loss of employees, resigning from the service, so that
no permanent, efficient force can be built up; now therefore
be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Congress of the United States be and it is hereby requested
to enact legislation at the earliest possible date, granting to
postal employees an annual increase compatible with present
living conditions, and that such increases be retroactive to
January first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight;
and be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby
requested to send a copy of this Resolution under the Great
Seal of the State of Maryland to the Secretary of the Senate
of the United States, the Clerk of the House of Representatives
of the United States, to the Chairman of the House Com-
mittee on Civil Service and Post Offices, to the Chairman of
the Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Services, and
to each member in the United States Congress from the State
of Maryland.

Approved June 1, 1948.

NO. 5

(House Joint Resolution No. 1)

Joint Resolution requesting the Congress of the United States
to enact the proposed legislation to amend Section 5219 of
the United States Revised Statutes to give the states which