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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1948)
313 6 ity differentiations and because the of one city employee group to gain wage ferings of merchants vary-w ith their increases of 10 to 15 per pent. Figures own particular supply of specific between January and August, 1947, showed that the wage earners’ salaries items), here is what a rough com in that city had increased only 30 per parison shows,” says the writer: 194& 1940 cent while the cost of living climbed ■. Sugar, lb. § ^59 per cent, leaving real wages at a Coffee, lb. — -m—— 2 5 c || 50 c minus 18 per ce'nt. An analysis of the 18c Canned corn °c increases showed the hounds of HCL ' Margarine^^ ^ ^ ^ & y l5 c a 40c gobbling Up the following increases: 92c Butter -——40c Dairy products, 74.9%4 '70c Egg» / ————r— - 3K Meat, poultry, fish 125.?% \ He | . ’ Soap Fruits and vegetables, 114.1% / 42p ’ Cooking oils, pt. 20c Clothing, 74.9'%, I ' Bread' ' 22c House furnishings, 71.7'%%' 50c Pork roast, lb. ---- 12 %c Kent, Pork steak —-15c g| 5,5 c The Oregon Statesman in Salem list 45c Ground beef' — —— 13c ed the- following comparison of food Smelt ' 26 c prices in Salem as of February,’ 1940 50c Pot roast 18c and 1948. "Taking a general average (Partial list reprinted here.) (difficult td estimate because of qual fl Mees Climb, Set State employee "forgotten Mao" • The taxpaying public, the merchants, legislators, contractors and others,'as well , as state employees, have an in terest in a satisfactory solution of the j state’s present wage problem and in other improvements in the public serv ice rendered by state governmental state functions. Some pertinent facts and figures which follow should be of interest to all. Merchants will be interested because it will show why the employee is forced to ask for extended credit when he does buy. Some members of the 1947 st^te leg islature will be interested because they can now determine how far wrong their predictions were when, a year ago, they predicted a decrease in living costs beginning in the summer of that year, and introduced a bill to cut em ployees’ salaries 5 per cent along about January, 1948? supposedly in the middle of the "depression.” The tax-paying public will be in terested because the tabulations will show that their tax dollars are, not go ing to "high-salaried” employees, but do' show why service to the public is sometimes not all that it should be. State employees will be interested be cause it will show them that theyj,are justified in being critical d i the way the state has handled the salary prob lem. It will show why many hundreds of their fellow workers have taken em ployment in private industry and why they themselves must do extra work on the outside or put the "little woman” to work in order to pay the grocery* man. The following tabulation was p iw pared by the state budget division and reflects salaries paid in December, 1?47> to employees in the classified service, i. e. employees under civil service. It does not include elected officials, mem bers of boards or commissions, depart ment heads, judges, legislators or the
