The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-30
Street Committee of City
Council Boosts Wages to
Gel
20 Cents an Hour. II
DEMAND HOMES! DAYS WORK
Inspectors Are Put on at Rate Of Thirty
Cents an Hour for all Time Actually
Put in for the City-Take up Many
Matters Friday Evening.

An honest days work for the city at
an honest rate Of pay was the system
put into operation by the committee
on streets and alleys at a meeting held
at the city hall on Friday evening
and in the future the men employed
Tor street work will be employed at
a rate of twenty cents an hour and
they will be expected to give the city
twenty cents worth Of work for every
hour paid for.
The present men will all remain in
the employment of the city, but they
will be fully advised as to the eondi-
tions of their continuance on the city
pay roll. Drinking in saloons must be
cut out and the men must remain on
duty for the full time for which they
are paid. There are to be no more
short days for the city worlzmen. The
hour system is also to go into effect
for the various inspectors employed by
the city and the inspectors are to be
paid at rate Of thirty cents an hour.
This will be for time actually put in
aud there will be no pay for rainy
days or for parts Of days in which
the inspectors are not actually en-
rloy. The order in regard to inspec-
tors will probably not meet with the
approval of these officials as some of
them have already threatened to bring
suit against the city to recover salary
for days when it was impossible for
them to work on account of inclement
weather.
The members of the council regard
these threats as joke, but the inspec-
tors may get the matter into the
courts The committee decided that
in the future inspectors should start
work at wages of twenty-five cents
al hour and be raised to the maximum
wage at the dissertation Of the com
mittee, The whole plan is to have the
s q
city pay only for actual labor received.
The street men have been receiving
seventeen and half cents an hour.
but with the great demand for men
in the city it has been hard matter
for the committee to get good men to
Eli the places in the street gang.
The committee decided that for the
present nothing will be done toward
the repair of Main street bridge but
it will ask the council to take up this
proposition Later in the summer. The
committee reported that the Grand
avenue bridge had now been replank-
ed and was now in condition to last
for eight or ten years.
The committee spent several hours
going over a lot of propositions now
before it but no definite action was
taken in regard to grades now under
consideration. There is no doubt but
that the council will stand behind the
committee in fixing the new scale for
city men as the committee was given
power to act in the matter at the last
meeting of the council
The committee is now getting bids
for the oiling of the macadam streets
in the city ond this work will be done
just soon as the weather permits
Under the new state law the cost of
oilin& the streets which will be very
SINAI! with be assessed to the property
owners the same as sprinkling the
streets with water would be. Last
year the cost of this work was paid
by the city but at that time the oil
ing Of the streets was taken up as
en- experiment.