The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-08-02
OFFICIALS WANT
SALARY RAISED
Board of Finances Failure
to Make Provision for
Salary Increaseof City
Officials Causes
Trouble.
LAW PROVIDES INCREASE
Financiers Allowed $4,000 in
Budget $4,000 More
Necessary
LAW PROVIDES INCREASE

Chief Conway, Assistant Chief Low
ell and the three battalion chiefs of the
fire department, along with the two doc
tors. the superintendent and the Clerk
of the Fire Board are in state of mind
over the snub given them by the Finance
Board in making up the next fiscal
years budget. Under law passed
three years ago the men of the depart
ment from the captains down wera al,
lowed by the city 'sfnanciers in the new
budget an increase of FIVE per cent. Of
their salaries. The chief and other Off
cials above mentioned We're cut out. The
law provides for an increase of five per
cent. each of three years after the law
shall have been taken advantage of over
the preceding year, until the salaries
have been raised a total of fifteen per
cent. To provide for the next fiscal year
I (the first taken advantage of under the
new law for the FIVE per cent. increase
the Financiers have allowed about $9,>
600 in the budget for the 1873 men of the
department. The amount of So, 300 more
would have been necessary to provide for
the increase under the law of salaries of
the officials aforementioned. The who
!
have been shut out claim they have as
much right to the increase as the men of
the department, and that the Financiers
have no right to exclude them from the
benefit of the law. For several years
/ past the Finance Boards have declared
they We're unable to raise the money to
provide for the increase allowed under
the new law, but they found means to
provide for the increase of the men of
the department for the next fiscal year.
The officials are saying all manner of
unpleasant things about the Financiers.
They say they feel insultedAthat they
have been practically slapped in the
mouth and told they were "dubs' and
'incompetents,a and not entitled to the
increase, whereas the 1S9 men of the
department, who can cast that many
votes and influence many others have
been slapped on the back and praised
for work, and said to them: well done,
good and faithful servant. enter thou
into the reward which | have prepared
for thee; but as to your officials"
Justified? That hardly expresses our
feelings sad Fire Chief Conway this
morning. we have been slapped in
the mouth. "
And all for peanut politics" inter-
rupted Assistant Chief Lowell.
"And, well' resumed the Chief,
we've got out our tomahawks. can't
say just now what we'll do. but we are
going back at them I can't for the life
of me see why the officials Of the de-
| partment should be treated so shabbily
and it's certainly a shabby trick. The
increase is not such great sum and
were entitled to it. Little Hoboken
with its 10000 inhabitants. pays its fire
chief and his assistant as much as big
Jersey City pays hers. That's $2,50C
for the chief and $1,000 for his assistant
Newark pays $1,000 more to her fire
chief than Jersey City-that is. $1,000
1t pays its assistant fire chief $4,000 and
the battalion chiefs $1,000 year. Of
500 more than Jersey City pays its
battalion chiefs 1t looks as though the
inanciers want to put us down on a leve
with the Seecaucus fire department. The
General of a successful army and his
staff are certainly entitled to as much
consideration as the men whom they
direct
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