Show PAYROLL WINS WINS' WINS WINS' OKEH OF CITY WITHOUT CUTS Commission Approves Engineering Engineering Engineering Engi Engi- Salaries After Keyser Objects r rA A dispute among city commission commission- er era rs Thursday ay marked the a of of an n engineering department payroll carryIng names of 34 who accepted no salary reduction in 1 1833 3 More Mor than 1000 oth other r city took ook reductions amounting lo to o ore m-ore more than han 10 per per cent of 1932 salaries which had been slashed nearly ri 1 per r cent ent Commissioner George D. D Keyser cast the dissenting vote on approval of the he payrolls submitted by City En- En n William D. D Beers He 11 Ie said I I think it is unfair t to workers worker tomake to tomake tomake make any distinction In this matter Beers Been Makes Appeal You cant can't make ditch diggers cut t tot of ot engineers said Mf Beers Beers' as he appealed for approval of the payroll Other workers including policemen police polke- men firemen and clerks took their pay reduction in the form of ss vacations of two weeks A A. tie vote on the issue was threatened when Commissioner John M M. Knight indicated he might stand with Mr Keyser on the mat matt tr r leaving caving only C Commissioners Harry L. L Finch and Harold B. B Lee to vote approval approval ap ap- ap- ap with Mayor Louis Marcus ab ab- sent City Auditor Samuel F. F Nicholls NIcholls who expressed disapproval of the Payroll payroll payroll Pay Pay- pay pay- roll as submitted d would have been I called upon to cast th the deciding vote Payne Took No Cut Cat Attention of Mr Knight was then called to the fact that Police Chief W W. L L. Payne took no salary cut while Fire Fir Chief Chic Walter S. S Knight did accept accept accept ac ac- ac- ac the reduction causing the commissioner commissioner com com- corn com missioner to change his mind and vote for Mr Finch's motion A rumor was current during the thern afternoon that other city would petition city commissioners for foi salary refunds because members of the he engineering department had bad not taken a reduction |