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PAGE EIGHT
FIREMEN AGAIN
ASK COUNCIL
FOR PAY RAISE
( Continued From Page One J
$83,50; regular firemen, $70.00’
“We ask you honorable body to
raise these salaries, to be effective
October 1, 1919, to the following
“Chief, $125.00; assistant chief,
$100; regular firemen, $90.00.
“As intimated above, this request
is made in order to meet our abso
lute living requirements. We ap
pend hereto an itemized statement of
the actual expenses of the members
of the force during the month of
August, which statement shows that,
with one exception, every member of
the force has from one to three de
pendents, and that, with few neces
sities of life were more than the
salaries received; that without any
provision for clothing and shoes for
the women and children in our fam
iles, without any provision for doc
tor’s and medicine bills for ourselves
and families, without any education
of our children, without any provis
ion for old age or misfortune, with
out any provision for a comfort or
pleasure in life —our entire pay is
consumed in keeping the wolf tfrom
the door.
“Such would not be the conditions
were these pre-war or normal times,
but the present high cost of living
(and with us we assure you it is not
the cost of high living) has made a
normal salary insufficient for the
.needs. The officials of our National
Government state that, after full in
vestigation into present conditions
and prices, the comparative value of
a dollar today with that of nor
mal times is forty-five cents; on
which basis the salary of your Fire
Chief of SIOO.OO today is actual val
ue only a salary of $45.00 and the
salary of your fireman of $70.00 to
day is in actual value on a salary
of $31.50; this, as you know is not
a living wage.
Ask Policeman’s Rate
“Your Honorable body has seen
fit, and very properly we think, to
> fix the salary of your regular po
licemen at $90.00 per month; we
ask that the salary of your regular
firemen be fixed at the same amount.
The policeman is on duty twelve
hours during the day, while your
firemen are on duty twenty-four
hours; while there a/e always dan
gers attendant upon the duty of the
policeman, there are equally as
great if not greater dangers con
stantly confronting the firemen in
the proper performance of his duty
he must, at high speed and on great
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of alarm, and then, without thought
of his life or limbs, fight the rapid
ly consuming fires. The record of
the Department for the past twelve
months bespeaks the enthusiasm and
prompt attention that hsa been giv
en the property interests of our
citizens. The policeman is given
twelve hours of the comfort and
pleasures of his home, while the
fireman must remain at his post all
hours of the day and night, with the
exception of the few minutes given
at meal time, and even then he can
not be at ease, but must be alert,
ready and listening for any alarm
of fire that might be given, and must
respond immediately wherever he
may be. In several cities in th
state the municipal authorities have
provided the double platoon system,
under which the fireman is on duty
for twelve hours and is then relie.
ed entirely for the next twelve
hours, which time may be spent i;
his home or elsewhere, as he choose
while we believe that this system
should prevail in every department,
as under our present continuous con
finement we are denied practically all
social intercourse with our famili'"-
and friends, yet we do not ask the
inauguration of this system in the
local department at the present time
HERE’S CHANCE TO BOOST
A. L. I. RE-ORGANIZATION
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117 ANT to help the re-organization of the Americus Light Infan
*’ try? If so, fill this out and mail it to Major James A. Fort, or,
!> if you can’t sign it yourself, see that some eligible young man
does sign it:
1 agree to enlist in the Americus Light Infantry and will
report at such time and place in Americus as may be des
ignated by proper authority for muster into service of said
company.
Applicant Sign Here.
Applicant recommended by Age.
Entered the Service Discharged
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Company and Regiment.
Address, Telephone No. Etc-
When filled out mail to JAMES A.FORT, Americus, Ga.
a.id under the present cond.tion,.
“While every member of the de
partment joins in this request for in
crea. e in pay, we wish to a sure
your honorable bedy th t it is not
an effort at collective bargaining nor
AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER.
threatened strike; we have come to
realize the responsibilities that rest
upon us as guardsmen of the peo
ple’s safety and property interest;
we realize that concerted abandon
ment of our duties might, and would
very likely result in great loss to our
fellow citizens; and we take this oc
casion to assure you that, whether
our present requests are granted or
not, and under no circumstances, will
we leave the service in a body, nor
without timely and reasonable no
tce of our intention to do so. But
in view of the facl> above recited,
to the effect that we are not paid
sufficient salary to actually sustain
ourselves and our families, we be
lieve you should be advised and that
it is our duty to inform you at this
time, that unless some arringement
is made along the line suggested and
our pay is increased to conform to
our actual needs anT requirements,
many of the present members of thk
department will be driven, by neces
sity, to enter other lines of work,
where the is not only
more commensurate with the duties
and responsibilities of the undertak
ing but is also more in keeping with
a living wage under present condi
tions; and, should the individual
members of the department be re
quired to make such a change, they
will not leave the service before
timely and reasonable notice has been
given nor before arrangements can
be made for the employment of oth
ers in our places, and in no event
will more than two men leave the
service at any one time.
What Others Are Doing.
“May we not add, and it may be
of interest to your honorable body
to know, that the increase request
ed is not any higher, and in many
cases not near as much, as the sal
ary paid firemen in our neighboring
cities with departments of the same
standard. In Thomasville the chief
is paid $l5O, raised from $125 paid
in 1918; the assitant chief is paid
$125, raised from SIOO paid ir 1918;
the regular firemen are paid sllO,
raised from S9O paid in 1918; in Ma
con the chief is paid $lB5, raised
from $175 paid in 1918; the assis
tant chief is paid $145, raised from
$l3O paid in 1918; the regular ur •-
men are paid sllO, raised from
$95 paid in 1918; in Columbus the
chief is paid $165, raised from $145
paid in 1918, and the regular fire
men are paid SIOO, raised from SBO
paid in 1918; in Valdosta the chief
is paid $125, raised from sllO paid
started at $75 with a raise at the
in 1918, and the regular firemen are
BUSINESS MEN
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SHADOW HERE
BY FRANK C. GILREATH.
ATLANTA, Sept. s.—Atlanta
branches of the federated railroad
shop crafts will accept President Wil
son’s offer of 4 cents an hour in
crease in wages ard also his pledge j
to use all possible efforts to reduce [
the cost of living expenses. President
J. P. Osburn, of the machinists, said
today that he was authorized to say
that the machinists by a large major
ity vote have decided to accept the
president’s offer.
The strike situation has presented i
a serious phase, according to At
lanta business men returning from 'i
New York and the east, where they j
had opportunities to study it from
the national angle. It was pointed
out that the railroad men themselves
would be injured, the United States;
would be injured by the strike. This ’
question was being asked Are thfere !
behind it, unknown to the sincere and I
eager spirits, mostly young men, who i
favor this extreme measure, a project I
to choke American production, those ■
sinister forces of Bolshevist and Ger
man propaganda that are busily at
work in many ways in this country,
and in many other countries? Speak
ing of the matter today a well known
Atlanta business man said:
“If the United States can be check
ed and hampered by grave labor dis
turbances, by increased costs of pro
duction, by the introduction of even
a diluted societism into the trade un
ions, by the substitution of class con
sciousness for national consciousness,
by the spread of that uncompromi
sing, selfish, particular interest, reck
less of the general, that has been fo
mented assiduously in Great Brit
ain, Germany would gain an even
more notable economic victory.
“Is it not more tnan a little cu
rious that certain British labor lead
ers, tainted with Bolshevism, advo
cates of nationalization and a radical
labor policy that would be destructive
if carried out, to British trade, are
soon to come to the United States.
end of six months’ service.
“With apologies for again inter
rupting your deliberations with a
personal matter, and assurances that
we will continue to give you the best
serivce at our command, we respect
fully urge your earnest considera
tion and approval of the request
I made herein. Respectfully submit
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Dunn, assistant chief; Charles E
Guerry, R. L. Kidd, W. T. Johnston,
Roach Brooks, J. G. Abell, I . G.
I Hallman, C. C. Tomlinson, W. C.
Jackson, J. C. Shy.’’
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