Show V C 7 PRO PD E E. TO OUli Seventy-seven Seventy Members gt of Department Department Department De De- De- De Sign R Resignation Effective Monday J Following Refusal of Increase Increase- in Pay CITY OFFICIALS lIDE DI DIVIDE I ON QUESTION O l J I Trained Men of Loi g ence Ready to Le Lethe Leave Service of the City Unless Salaries Salaries t I IAre Are Raised as I Requested B quested J. 1 S. S YE TY fh fir e including including L ing ilig captains and HC l lemi- lemi lH cred I their resignation Irr afternoon to Fire ire Ch W H. H Bywater Bywater By- By water to take effect Monday rol because t the hc city commissioners t l t to grant increases in their theu increases wages Should t the bc firemen rc resign i Lake Le will ivill be e without a afire fire department At pr present sent firemen of or lU r t te yeat e 7 1 receive FG 76 and d are cd for tal dut duty I. I 21 I hours a da day When wOl ij 1 their promotion to tik Sc I d bra t I thc they are advanced to SO z a and andas Il as first t grade grac gra c men they t l 85 5 I a a. month lieutenants revive lve 00 SOO I a month and captains I 1 S rY h- h Third grade ra c men want a t gi 15 Hi a 3 month second Sla a month 1 anti ana first grade men mon r ia a l th p Cap Captains aj- aj Pt P t talus and lieutenants arc tach ach h a asking klu for Increases ses of ot 10 a won ni Her After advocating In In wages 0 of firemen 1 ever eyer 51 1 hico t e the ibe Y commissioners granted ri for motor motol driven a i- i the thC nav MJ rda ma made c 1 te nt tIon for l' l t tho advanced ad ceI j 14 T commissioned r-pt r of n JS a l nott ru J h J 1 ln ol t I tho or orThe The c commissioner of or streets the commissioner of oC water vater at r orI s and tim tho commissioner of at finance In favor of oC defeating the tho proposed increase The Tue mayor maor commissioner and the hc he commissioner commissioner commis commis- of ot parks voted lor t tic c Increases Almost immediately after arter the tho action of or thE tho city commission had been made Continued on Ol Page pase 2 Column 1 u I FIREMEN PROPOSE f I TO QUIT THEIR JOBS I J I Seventy-seven Seventy Members De Department Dei Department De- De i 1 r p ent Resign Resigns nl Effective I Monday Monda Y Continued from Page I 1 know a t petition entered I Into circulation at lire headquarters and rapidly spread to outlying lnE stations to which fl firemen m n their ther names declaring Intentions to resign V When hen practically all members mem mem- bers of tho the fire department not including In- In eluding Fire Chief ha had signed their names nam's to the resignation list it I wn was turned over oer to tho the chief The docu- docu I 1 I t OFFICERS OF SALT LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT I t r A M Mr f i dr f 1 4 ff t r g 1 i 1 l V q f r I IY I It II E a I t 4 i t S t x i i Top row roe left to right right Capt Walter Knight Lieutenant Bowen Inspector F. F J J. J Anderson Dan Keith and Captain Andrew Aeiken bottom Assistant Assistant Chief James C C. C Paul Chief W. W H H. Bywater and Secretary Harry Colburn men meta caused a mild sensation among city officials I lOr voted against Increasing t tho the s sal sal- aries of or firemen purely Urel- as tho thu result orthe of or the fact net that tho the budget did not provide for Increased wages said the commissioner commis commis- commissioner td nCI of streets last night in explanation tion of or his vote I 1 do not In voting olinG tho time cx expenditure of money which has hns not he hewn bean on provided for in in the budget It budget It Is not In accordance with strict business principles an and not with what should bo Al of or n a commissioner commissioner commis commis- chosen to look after aCtor tho the Interests Inter Inter- interests ests of tho tiro people Tho The commissioner of finance added that his views were in substance those of the commissioner o of streets He sald bald he hee had the best hest o of feeling for or tho the firemen and the fire firo department al always always al al- ways having ln been strongly In favor of granting the department anything within reason But ho said that appropriations appropriations in man many other departments had bad been cut as at the tho result of keeping within the tho financial aim of tho the budget Regret r tS When cn tho the mayor maor was asked last night concerning th the d defeat of ot the Increased cd salary scale for Ot the firemen ho ex expressed expressed ex- ex expressed pressed regret He lie said the the- fire tIro de department department de de- In Salt Lake is ono one of tile life most efficient In tho United States State meaning much to property owners owner The Thema ma mayor or would not entertain the thought of supplanting tho the old and experienced members o of tho the fire department with recruits he lie said but he would not discuss discuss dis dis- cuss S the possibility of or another meeting of the tho commissioners to consider arbi arbi- Both the commissioner of ot finance and the commissioner of streets appeared appealed optimistic concerning tho threatened strike of ot all members of ot the fire d de department do- do inclining to underrate th the thereal thereal real intention behind the tho resignation The They declared tho they would make malce every effort to help bring bring- about the Increase I creaSt In wages whenever or it Is warranted b by tho the direct bu budget ct appropriation O I t Ix Ia Silent Fire Chief By water yesterday ester o refused reused to discuss the tilo wage scale scala matter but Intimated in favor of Increased wa wages el Ho Ire said with much enthusiasm that the pr present sent or of the tilo fire tire department depart depart- mont ment should be maintained 1 for ita Ity off effi l- l Leaders headers in the Increased wa wage c m movement move movement move move- ve- ve ment amon among firemen brought out the tho fact that the UH pay of ef policemen who work only eight hours a a. da day ran ranges es from i SO SO to sergeants receiving 11 and antI detectives a month as aa against th the smaller wage 30 of ot tho the firemen fire tire men at twenty four hours of or responsibility responsibility every day It jt was added that the hazard of ot being being- a a. fireman is much I greaten than that of being a policeman Fire Insurance agents refused to entertain en en- yesterday e ter a th the thought ht of Salt Lake being without a. a fire d department in the tho event ot of is a. a strike Monday lon l They said that if It a strike were calle cared called and the city for an any length of or time was wa without proper pi u Hot election against fire tire rates tea undoubtedly would bo be r raised J Dr Johnston My Myers rs of ot Chicago SIS says that unless thore there Is n marked n change chango tho the Baptist denomination will disappear pear peal within twenty five tive years yeara |