Show Extra Work for P Policemen l cemen Firemen THE THE PLAN adopted by the city commission providing for t the theL e L employment of po policemen icemen and firemen for extra hours and on their days off in order to enable them to supplement their normal income during the war with its increased costs costs' of living seems Beems a sensible procedure The men will receive added pay at regular rates for the extra service This plan will serve two ends It will win help relieve the man manpower manpower manpower power shortages which have been plaguing these departments and nd it will ease case the pressure from these city for further urther increases in their regular pay scale The city might as well wen get the benefit of the extra work of which policemen and firemen are capable Many of them have bave been performing various kinds of outside work on off hours or off days anyway regardless of regulations Inas Inasmuch uch as the city ity can use their services they might as well do that tha extra work work for for the city And d this arrangement for a temporary increase in income for policemen and firemen to offset temporary increases increases increases in in- creases in the cost of l living ving is better than raising the the- scale of pay to a level which the city might tot flot ot be able to maintain tinder under normal conditions |