Show POLICE POUCE WAGE I CUT IN CITY NOW IN FORCE Payroll for First Two Weeks of Year Returned for Salary Slash The threatened cut in salaries of or members of the the- Salt Lake police department department de de- became a reality Thursday when the payroll for Jor the first two weeks of January was returned bythe by bythe bythe the city auditor with instructions to tc slash all salaries 10 per cent All members of the department includIng including in in- eluding Police Chief William L L. Payne were affected by the order which reduced the monthly payroll from to a slash of ot 2375 Sergeants captains and department heads in n addition to the rank and file which will suffer most by the order will receive from 30 to 1350 less each month under the new scale Salary of ot first class patrolmen i is reduced from to that of ol second class patrolmen from to tc and that of third class elass patrolmen patrolmen patrolmen pa pa- from to Work of revising the payroll to the thc scale ordered by the auditor was begun begun begun be be- gun immediate immediately after receipt of the thc order by Herman Bauer secretary to tc Chief Payne and William F F. F Heninger Heninger Hen Hen- inger secretary to Detective Chief D D. H. H Clayton Although the payroll for members 5 of f the fi fire e dep department has a n not t y ye yet t been made up Fire Chie Walter S S. Knight said a similar slash is expected 1 i in n the salaries of his men when th the Continued on Page S Seventeen I POLICE WAGE W AGE AGE- CUT IN CITY CIT NOW IN FORCE Continued From rom Page Pace Eleven even requisition is forwarded to the awl audi tor Although a reduction was not unexpected un expected few members of ot the police department believed that the cut would exceed 5 per cent cent Calling attention to the low wage scale calc under which his men have been working for years Chief Chic Payne said sid the he reduction placed the Salt Sal Lake LakeI I department in an unfavorable Jon tion ton when compared with wiH salaries paId aid policemen in ot other other cities cr cities similar I in n size to Salt Lake The economic economie situation m made de a cut Imperative of course Chief Payne said But a 10 per cent reduction appears too dras drastic ic particularly at a 0 time when police n needed ed most most I |