Show CHICAGO FIREMEN VOTE TO RE RESIGN to Leave Posts Next Week in Protest of Wage Vage Increase Chicago o. March 31 Fie a. hundred Chicago firemen tod today voted unanimously unanimously to resign in a a. body April 7 protest against the V a year w we increase carried in the tho revised city budget passed by the city council Firemen who w wore were ro on duty today to ay will meet tomorrow to decide th their lr course courso of ot action The firemen demanded demand demand- od ed a n. year increase The resignations signed tod iy were dated daled April 2 2 giving five days' days notice as required by law The Tho minimum wage waHO In the Ire fire department Is 1000 a year now Tho The 19 1920 O bud budget et passed today by the council after days ayn and nights of or wrangling wrangling wran wran- gling added to the original appropriation bill and e exceeded tho the city's s estimated revenue by tho the same sarno amount Tho The additions included ed 22 for tor 10 per cent salary increases to all city Salary Salar Increases asked asked by by all city totaled Increases of or un a year for tor policemen policemen policemen police police- men and nd firemen SO for junior clerks anti and 10 for cl rk in the higher her grades were pro provided in tho the budget All of ot these asked for increases of a year yea Nearly early 1500 city emi lo es wore on strike today for tor higher wages and o wages several soy sev eral oral hundred others were forced out of ot work vork through the tho tying up of t municipal activities |