Show I POLICE OBJECT TO PARADING I Think it an as Injustice to Be Asked to tor i r March so Often I The policemen are complaining of or the amount of overtime work that they are compelled to do which in their eves eres seems see unnecessary This applies particularly par particularly to the officers being compelled to march in every parade that happens along Yesterday eight of the guardians of or the city were compelled to don their finery and march at the head of the Eagles parade much to their dislike I In the afternoon a meeting was called to protest against agaIn t the marching and andI I to find rind some way of or getting relief Said one of them yesterday I We are compelled to walk our beats every day in the year ye r and think it is an injustice to be called upon to march marchin in every parade that comes along When the president was here many of the men worked from fifteen to eighteen hours ai a a stretch str but as that wasn was necessary n no one objected But when it comes to our our oar being called upon to march maich for hours on the hot pavements at a t the head hed of every parade that is I held Mid we think wp wr v have a kick coming i No decisive action was taken at the I meeting but the officers declared their intention of ot calling upon the mayor or whoever is 1 responsible for the trouble I and finding out if something cannot be bedone bedone bedone done j 1 |