Show lOW Ol PAY COMPELS COMPELS' I CUSTOMS MEN TOI TO LEAVE JOBS JOBSt I 1 I t I I U. U S. S Workers Get But I Per Day for Hard Work SAN FRANCISCO CISCO Oct 21 The The businesS business bus bus- iness mess of ot the largest ports in the United States Is being demoralized by the wholesale resignation of customs ston service service ice men Unable they sa say eay to maintain families tarn tarn- lies III's on salaries unchanged since 1510 ten teh eh men responsible for the smooth operation op 01 op- op of the tho nations nation 3 entire import and export business are leaving for other work work many many of them as long long- A Gil At a time when the activities of ot liquor and narcotic smugglers are greater than c P CI er before and when the government is making every ef- ef tort fort to 10 build up foreign trade there are fewer customs men to cope with the situation than at any time in the pa past t fifty Years vears especially veterans Fortified with sl statistics from government government gov gov- officials showing the Increase In the cost of living customs men have formed an organization organisation through which thy they are asking for or an increase in pay from congress LOW P. P l lLONG Y LONG WILK UllI The They point to the fact that the the customs customs cus cus- toms inspector responsible for tor millions millions mil lull lions of dollars annually receives 3 50 a day for a ten hour da day while the stevedore working alongside him draws from Om 8 S to 10 per da day for eight ht hours Colonel John S Irby surveyor of customs at the port of San Francisco has reported that positions in the customs customs customs cus cus- toms service are bein being abolished when vacancies occur occur and money thus saved apportioned to the remaining men an and 1 I that this necessarily seriously impairs the efficiency of the organization |