Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-30 | Page 2 | Chicago May Raise Pay of City Employes

i Council Begins Consideration of Pay Increase Totalling Over $1,500,000. CHICAGO, June 'J9. The city coun-l cil today began cbnsidoration of payj Increases to city employes, totaling; more than 500,000. by granting a maximum yearly wage of $,100 to firemen and policemen. A blanket resolution calling for payment of tho union wage scale to members of the union crafts en ployed by the city was,1 passed, but will bo reconsldorod. l-'ollccmon and firemen now receive $1,992. The union crafts asked ten dollars a day. Alderman Rlchort, chairman of the; finance committoe, said that the cltyj had no money to pay the increases,! and that it would bo necessary to re-! sort to script In November and De-' cember. It Is planned to reduce the number of city employes to provide increases for the remaining ones