New-York tribune., 1919-09-22
City Employees
Fix Salaries
They Will Ask
Committee Decides Upon
Schedule To Be Submitted
to Meeting of Association
To Be Held Tonight
Refuse to Give Figures
But One Member Says 1t
Will Be So Moderate as to
Surprise Estimate Board

Members Of committee represent
ing the Association of Municipal and
County Employees of the City of New
York met yesterday afternoon in Belle
vue Hospital and formulated sched-
ule of salary increases which, if ap-
proved by the association, will be sub
mtted to the Board of Estimate along
with request that the proposed in
crcascs be included in the city budget
for 1920.
The members of the association are
to meet tonight in the Municipal
Building, when the schedule Of in
creases will be submitted to them.
There are said to be $4,000 city en-
ployes IN the organization, which as
yet does not include members of either
the Fire, Police or Street Cleaning de-
partment.
The members of the committee re-
fused yesterday to divulge the rates of
compensation they will recommend but
one Of them said "Our recommends
ions are very moderate. l can't en-
shasize that too much. They are more
moderate than the Board of Estimate
expects"
The committee that met yesterday
identified itself in d statement as the
Committee on Organization. Plan and
Scope The members as previously an
nounced are: Samuel Prayer, DR.. r. B.
Collins, of Bellevue; James A. Higgins,
all of the Municipal Civil Service Com
mission; Edna McKeevcr, Of the Board
Grove, of the city law department.;
Wilhelmina Rothermund, superintend-
ent of child hygiene, and Alexander
Cooper. of the Office of the President Of
the Borough of Manhattan.
At the conclusion of the meeting the
members of the committee denied that
they had discussed the suspension Of
q. W. Morton, jr.
'Morton is member of an organiza-
ton affiliated with the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor said one of the COM
mittee. "We are not affiliated with the
federation, so we do not feel that the
suspension Of Mr.. Morton is of any
interest to our organization. At our
meeting this afternoon we drafted a
platform which places us on record as
being opposed to strikes of all govern
mental employees, whether municipal,
state or Federal, and also as against
mass designations of such employees.
But as saaried workers we feel
that we retain the right to appeal as
q group to the body which fixes our
pay
There was a feeling among some
members Of the committee that their
recommendations might not be ac-
cepted BY the entire body without
fight by themembers Of the assoca-
tion who want a larger increase than
The committee is recommending.
The committees statement follows:
"a meeting of the Committee on Or
ganization, Plan and Scope of the AS
sociation of Municipal and County En-
ployes of the City of New York was
held this afternoon and continued in
session until late hour. The COM
mittce had before it voluminous data
relative to the present prevailing rates
of compensation in outside business
concerns, and after mature delibcra
ton, the committee formulated a
schedule Of proposed rates OF in
crease for city and county employees
to be recommended to the Board of
Estimate and Apportionment for in
clusiou in the budget Tor the year
1920.
"The committee will present its re-
port to the association At melting to
be held tomorrow evening at O'clock