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Postmaster General Summerfield has announced he won't start to restore the service cutbacks until President Eisenhower signs the legislation and Summerfield is certain he will have enough money to maintain normal operations through June 30, the end of the fiscal year...
Roared Virginia Democrat J. Vaughan Gary (who is well equipped to roar): "If we're going to yield to threats of that type, we will lose all control . . ." The subcommittee voted to give Summerfield $17 million and no more...
With that, Summerfield went for his guns. At an "emergency"' press conference, well reinforced with pamphlets and charts that obviously had been carefully prepared long in advance, he said that unless the Appropriations Committee voted the full $47 million in a matter of hours he ("and it breaks my heart even to consider such action") would have to take a whole string of drastic steps: 1) shut down post offices on Saturdays, 2) stop Saturday mail deliveries, 3) trim business-district deliveries and 4) curb third-class mail and postal money-order services...
...Washington hands groaned or grinned at what was going to happen to Postmaster General Summerfield, trying to bully Congress like that. Then it became apparent that Summerfield had some real convincers in his holsters. Last January he had warned Congress that he would have to come in for an emergency appropriation. One reason was that Congress had revised the postal workers' pay structure, increasing the payroll $17 million a year. Beyond that. Summerfield had the solid argument that unprecedented growth of population and of economic activity in the U.S. had increased the amount of mail handled yearly...
...cries of support for Summerfield began to come in from postmen who were worried about their pay-and voters who were worried about their mail-Congressmen began to recall that the mail is one Government service that reaches almost every constituent almost every day. The day after Summerfield's press conference, the Appropriations Committee turned tail, voted to reconsider his request. In a second press conference, the Postmaster General announced that his proposed cutbacks would not take effect until this weekend -the day after the committee is scheduled to make up its mind about that other $30 million...