The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-10-29
City Council Agrees to New Scale
of Wages for Men Employed
on Street Work
MUST co AND GET ALL ORDERS
Council by Vote of Ten TO -Four Re-
fuses 30 Rescind It's Action in
Regard TO Payment Of
Orders for WozA
(From fridays Daily


The city council met In special ses,
sion at the City Hall on Thursday
evening for the purpose of taking up
the strike among the men working en-
the street, and scale Of wages was
approved by the Council which it is
thought will do away with all trouble
in the future and most of the men to-
day expressed a willingness 80 return
to work. Incidentally the new scale
of wages will demand a greater ex.
penditure on the part of the city for
the street work as a decided increase
! in wages was allowed to some of the
men, while only few of them felt the
pruning knife.
| The meeting was one of the most
supremely funny ever held by the
Council and Mayor Scholey and
his parliamentary rulings, which were
decidedly grotesque, brought
hearty laugh from the members of
the Council and the few people
in the lobby several times dur
ing the meeting which lasted more
than an hour. The mayor has a won
derful eye for all matters parliament
! tary and as presiding officer of the
Council he has set set of rulings of
his own which would have made the
late Thomas B. Reed look like the pro-
verbal thirty cents. Scholey is real
Gar all right when it comes to rulings
and the best joke of it all is that he
has the nerve to stick to his rulings,
and the Council stands for it.
The meeting opened by discussion.
Of the plan of having the laborers of
the city come to the city hall for their
orders, the mayor declaring that this
had been the original cause of the
strike. Alderman George Wade and
Alderman Schend spoke in favor of
returning to the old plan and Alder
man Schend finally moved to rescind
the action which had been taken at
the former meeting on the motion of
Alderman Marlatt. The motion to
rescind was lost by vote of ten to
four, the only members of the Council
favoring the return to the old plan
being Alderman Tully, Schend, Geo.
Wade and John Wade. Aft31 it had
been decided that the city would in.
sist on the use of business methods IL
the payment of wages, Superintendent
Steinbach was called before the Coun-
Gil and asked to propose scale of
wages for the different work which
would be fair to the different classes
Of labor. His scale which was adopted
is as follows: Sweepers Is cents an
hour; graders and shovelers &c cents
an hour; crossing and catch basin
builders % cents an hour; sidewalk
builders and raisers 25 cents an hour;
man driving a single horse $685. per
week; foreman $12 week. All of
these scales are based on a ten-hour
Fday. In some cases they mean an in
crease of three dollars a week to the
men and in the lowest classes of labor
they mean reduction from the present
scale Of $3.50 a week. In most cases
the men have been given more than
they demanded in the strike, but the
members Of the Council recognized the
nature of the work being done by these
men and decided that they were en-
titled to more money.
The street railway muddle having
been settled at the conference in Chi
Icago on Thursday afternoon the mat
ter was not brought before the Council
in any way.