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Show ; FIREMEN VOTE TO Ml IT POST Differences Between Department De-partment and City Commission Com-mission Adjusted. $5 DEMAND IS WAIVED Le isure Hours to Be Taken Consecutively; Resignations Resigna-tions Withdrawn. rpon an adjuntmnt of hours of service, ser-vice, agreed to by members of the city commission and the men themselves, Salt firemen tvIII remain at their posts. 'I'lie a.Tfoiitent whs reached yesterday aflernoon at. a joint session of the t'lre-mm'M t'lre-mm'M committee, Karl A. Sch eld, head of the public a i'ety commission; Chief W. h. Uywah-r of the fire department, flmJ W, 1 1. Kne it, concilia tor v member of the Htnte Industrial commission. 'Die basis upon whleh tin-, eetilement waa rH.'irherl was formula ted and submitted tv M r. Ivn-rr. The. fWt lenient involves concessions by tioth siri.;H, the men waiving their de- i niand for an increase of Ja per month over ;i nd ;ibu e I lie $ir voluntarily pnuiied by the city commission recently, ii nd the com mLs.sj oners conceding an ii rid cd twelve consecutive hours of leisure to each fircm.iu eah week. KoMowhii? tiie adjustment of the trouble "which threatened to disrupt the entire t'ne-J'iKl ' u n - department of the city, tho men Involved, eighty in number, voted to reconsider their former notion and withdraw with-draw al! resignations made In blanket form. This morninc; the city commis-h'um commis-h'um will meet to receive the withdrawals ami arrange for the reinstatement of all tin? firemen. TsTo Additional Expense. The basis upon which settlement of the rli! toivnees have been settled, while pr'antlns an additional twelve hours of leisure for the men, does not involve any additional expense for the city. Kaeh Juan has agreed to work at his station riLirinK the breakfast hour on his day off. Tho term is one hour and ten minutes. This arrangement obviates the possibility of any of the fire machines being: under- manned. The system ol revised hours becomes effective August I. L'nder teiirus of the old system, each fireman was nllowed thirty-six hours leisure during the week. This term was cut into two periods, one of twenty-lour a nd ono of twelve consecu tive hours of absence from service. The later arrangement ar-rangement gives each man two periods of twenty-four hours off. with the exception of the breakfast hour, which is donated under the terms reached yesterday. All the men will now carry their meala to their post of duty instead of beim? ah-nflnt ah-nflnt from the stations. In this way the forces will be always up to peak manpower. man-power. There will be no timo when there wiil not be full crews for the fire ma- i chines. Beginning of Trouble. The controversy, which resulted in the tendering of resignations by almost the entire fire-fighting force, had its inception incep-tion in tho refusal by the city commissioners commis-sioners of a demand for $2U increase of salary for each man a month and the denial of a req nest for an additional twelve hours leisure each week. The commission com-mission had already volunteered an ln-1. ln-1. 1 ease of $15 per month. The additional hours of leisure, however, was the principal prin-cipal point at issue, tho men always contending con-tending that if this feature were allowed they would he willing to waive the demand de-mand for the added $5 a month. Mad the contention not been brought to a satisfactory conclusion, all of the firemen would have laid aside their uni-lorm.s uni-lorm.s at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Chief "Y. H. Bywater said yesterday he hud arranged to fill the ranks with soldiers sol-diers from Fort Douglas who had had tome experience in fire fighting, tie had also advertised for recruits outside of these. The increase granted the men by the citv commission now makes firemen's pay 5100, $110 and $ 120 a month. |