The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-20
TYPIST IN CITyS EMPLOY WILL GET INCREASE IN PAY
Council Votes to Give StenO- graphers Salary of
 $500 a Year.

~ Good news for all girl typists in city employ.
 F The yearly compensation of each land every girl typist in city employ will be $500 or more before the end or
 the year.
 The first step in this general increase
 for all girl typists was taken by the
 common council last night when 1t
 adopted report of the ordinance committee and raised the salaries of the 13 girls in the town clerks oHlce
 from s7O0 to $90O per year.
 If any increase is granted the city laborers it will not be the increase which the Democratic aldermen have
 been trying to get for them, an 1n- crease from s2 to s2.5O. The RepubH- cans intend to kill this project because it is the idea of a Democratic alder man. The consideration of the in crease for the laborers was postponed until the meeting of March 5. The ordinance increasing salaries of typists went through the council with
 scarcely a debate. Alderman Joseph IP Onkey, Democratic leader, said the council had just, increased the number of girl employees in the town clerks office from nine to thirteen and he could not see why the town clerk
 should ask that the salaries be in-
 creased.
 Alderman Whitney, chairman of the ordinance committee, said the matter had been talked over in committee and the members had decided to grant the increase.
 Howard F. Smith, tax collector, will ask the council to increase the com pensation of some of the girl employees in his office. They now receive $750. The council will vote them $900 and probably will adopt another ordinance
 at the last meeting in March fixing the 1 minimum. salary for girls employed at clerical work in the city hall or other
 city departments, at $900 per year. Several others in the employ of the ! city were voted increases in salary
 last night. The two assistant building inspectors will get $60 more per year, making their salaries $2, ,000 c. Howard Dunbar, chief Sanitary inspector and clerk of the board of health, was voted an increase from
 $1, 800 to $1,s00 per year. Clayton L. Smith, clerk of the police board, was raised from the rank of sergeant to that of lieutenant with an increase Tn pay from $1,so0 to $1,s0o per year.
 Attempts of the Democratic alder. men to get increased pay for city la- borers last night were fruitless but they forced the Republican majority to show it's hand.
 Alderman John J. Ford asked for o nf fho on the matter. He called attention
 to the fact that the resolution was in-
 troduced in December and that under
 the rules report should be before
 the council long ago. A report had
 been promised for the meeting last
 night but it was not forthcoming.
 He moved the committee take re-
 cess of 10 minutes and then bring in
 report. Alderman Whitney, chair
 man of the ordinance committee, ob- jected. He said such action was tanning the matter down the throats of the committee. He said that be- fore the next meeting the commit tee will have consulted with the di- rector of public works regarding the | increase in pay for the city laborers.
 He moved that Alderman Ford's mo- tion be laid on the table indefinitely.
 Aldermen Onkey and Clancy protest
 ed such action but Alderman Prim-
 rose, who is presiding in the ab-
 sence of the mayor, said that he 1 could not entertain a motion to table.
 1 The motion of Alderman Ford was
 then put and the Republicans mar
 shalled their forces and voted it
 down. The matter is thus left with 1 the ordinance committee for confer
 ence with Director of Public Works
 Courtade. It is reported that the administration is against the increase
 because the project is of Democratic
 origin and that the ordinance com-
 mittee probably will report unfavor-
 ably, at the next meeting.
 1 The establishment of two voting precincts in the Sixth and Ninth dis
 tricts as recommended by the ordi-
 nance committee last night was en- l dorsed by the council. The Sixth
 district will be divided by the center
 line of North avenue, the south sec 1 tion to be known as the First precinct l and the north section as the Second 1 precinct.
 East Main street will be the divid-
 ing line in the Ninth and the section
 east of that thoroughfare will be
 known as the First precinct and that
 west of East Main street as the Sec ond precinct.
 A proposed ordinance requiring l that permission of the property own. I CTS 200 feet each side of the site be l |