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Show City Workers Demand Wage Boost First; Improvements Later Employes of non-civil service departments of Salt Lake City government this week demanded "wage adjustments first, capital improvements with what is left. Some 200 employes, meeting in city commission chambers to hear a progress report on their demands for wage increases and an ordinance encompassing previously pre-viously recommended job evaluation evalu-ation program wage scales. Clarence L. Palmer, national AFL-CIO field representative, urged the employes to first gain acceptance by the city commission commis-sion of an ordinance encompass ing the proposed wage program. He told the workers, "If there is any left after that then we'll fight for more." Harry Sneed, staff representative, representa-tive, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes, told the meeting that the city commission had committed com-mitted itself to adoption of the job evaluation program by December De-cember 1. . Many a failure can be attributed attribut-ed to the fact that a man keeps to big an account with bad luck in his mental bookkeeping. .. What is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. Goethe. |