Washington, June 13—Senator Overman today received a letter from M.N. Hales of Goldsboro in which the writer sets forth the fact that after 34 years in the postal service he finds himself in the railway mail service, and on his run between Beauford and Goldsboro he is serving as a helper to three negro clerks.
He says things got in this shape for him when the post office department closed the transfer office at Goldsboro, and that the several pleas of the chamber of commerce for its re-establishment have been in vain.
After several years’ service as transfer clerk, he was given the run referred to, and if he must continue in this service he desires the position of clerk in charge, rather than a subordinate position under the negro clerks.
Senator Overman was in his office when the letter came from Hales, and immediately addressed a letter to the postmaster general on the subject.
From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, N.C., Friday, June 15, 1923
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