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Show CDT:iiaEZPZjSE3 v M X'jLLD'S "FAR - ST. LOUIS, July 29.--An order was promulgated today, effective August 1, reducing the salaries .of all employees and oncers of the World's fair com-party com-party from 5 to 20 per .cent ' The reductions re-ductions vary according to the amount received, those receiving: the smallest salaries being reduced the least. Ntf salary of JCO a month or less will be a7ected"ty r-.e retrtr.cV.ment order..' Jt was stated today by an t .Ucial c the exposition that 330 persons would 'm rsdoiced as. the result cf the order, The reduction of, salaries Is part of a general gen-eral retrenchment -plan, by -Which the exposition company , hopes to"1 save many thousand dollars." Notice of dismissal dis-missal has Wel'jre'ceived hVmany -em-" ployees and after August 1 be working force in the executive .departments of the fair will be cut down to the lowest possible figure commensurate with the amount of the work that it Is necessary to transact. . - ; 4 |