The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-02-09
QUESTION TO THE BOARD OF
AFFAIRS.

ton OF the public We VIII now nre
few broad-sides into our executive
officials with the request that they
answer:
When you decided to cut down the
city's expense by laying on some of
the employees why did you start at
rhe bottom?
Would it not have saved the city
money If Won had cut on about three
OF the board OF affairs and the street
commissioner and reduced the record
ers salary to what it is actually wort
than TO have laid off the drivers of
the sprinklers and q few policemen?
If one OF the Board of Affairs is doing
all the work, what use Is the other
Holly doing to earn S150oOo a year?
The mayor is out of the city looking
after his oil interests two to six
months at 4 time. what service is he
rendering the city that we should pay
him a handsome salary?
How many hours each day does Bert
Buster and Luther Price give to the
city affairs?
How many of our city officials work
eight hours day and six days a week
for the city?
Whom you cut out some OF the arc
lights why did you go into the section
where the poor people live:
Why didn't you remove some OF the
lights in the residence section above
Capitol street? Why did you remove
the lig,.t from Car, street that is
thickly settled by working people aud
Ieav" the lights on Edgewood hill
when only. fouR or five families liTc
there? Why are there SO fe~~lights
and so little pavements and SO much
mud in the first. second and third
wards that are thickly settled, while
the section of the city above Capitol
street where the rich live has good
sidewalks, Il light on every corner
and Is we'll paved?
Why is it you can furnish lights
for the thinly settled tenth ward and
none for the residence of the third
ward above Magazine?
Why Is it you can furnish 4 string
Of lights n mile long to light up the
Edgowood Boulevard used only by n
few of the idle rich. while the working
people have to go home in the dark?
What are you doing with the taxes
collected from the people in the sub
urbs? y
What are these people getting in
return for the money paid as taxes 4:
Is it not a fact that you are using
their money to keep UP the lights on
tie Boulevard and 10 keep the lights
liz the tenth ward, where a few OF the
corporation lawyers live that control
peoples money is being used to
sprinkle. clean. pave and light tae
streets in the wealthy residence por-
ton OF the city while the poor and
common people are left in darkness
and are forced to wade the mud?
Does the conscious of the rich re-
rroach them for robbing and Cypress
ing the poor that they are afraid to
go home in the dark?
Can you furnish IN itemized state
ment OF that $4,000 you have listed
in the city's expense as Horse feed
and contingent expenses? Why did
the Board of Affairs and the water
works and Chamber of Commerce COM
mittce meet behind closed doors We'd
nesday Feb. list?
Why did you invite the citizens COM
mittee to meet you Saturday the 4th
at o'clock p m. then hold your meet
ing at p. M? Why are you so anx-
icus to NEE the business interests
the Chamber of Commerce and don't
want to meet the citizens committee?
Why haven't YOU published the
franchise the Kanawha Water & Light
Company are seeking as promised?
What are you trying to hand the
people in that water franchise PROPOSE
ticn anyway
Is it not fact that the city affair
are administered in the interest OF
tho rich and against the poor or in
other words is 1t not class admins.