The sun., 1919-10-01
MAYOR VET0ES
HIS OWN ORDER
Issued Edict FOrbidding City
Employees to Hold More
Pay Meetings.
QUICKLY RESCINDS 1T
First Ruling Brought Storm
of PrOtests-Platform
Pledge Recalled.
QUICKLY RESCINDS Il

An order issued yesterday by Mayor
Hylan forbldding the police and fire.
men to hold a meeting to-day in City
Hall Park to agitate their demands
storm of protest that he reversed
himself last night after a conference
with Frank ]. Prial. president of the
Civil Service Forum.
The Mayor wrote to Police Commits
sioner Enright yesterday morning
that he had heard the meeting was
o be "disorderly gathering OF agi-
tators" and that he had personally
spoken to more than fifty members
OF the uniformed force and found
them satisfied with the $400 increase
now promised by the Board of
Estimate.
Following this orders were issued by
the Police and Fire departments and
posted in the fire houses and police
stations informing the men that under
no circumstances We're they to appear
any other day without special permis-
sion from the chiefs of the departments
Recalls Party Pledge.
Mr. Prial pointed out that this re-
fusal to let the city employees state
their case to the Aldermen was a direct
violation of a pledge contained in the
1917 party platform on which Mayor
Hyian was elected
The platform distinctly stated that
The rights of employees to petition leg
isiative bodies and officials Of the Gov
eminent should not be denied"
After concedlng the right of the pa
trolmen and fremen to plead their case
at the hearing in City Hall. which has
been called by Robert l.. Moran, pres-
dent of the Board of Alderman. for l
o'clock this afternoon, the Mayor made
further concession by giving his per-
mission to the Patrolmen's Benevolent
Association and the Uniformed Fire
mems Association to choose their own
spokesmen.
The presidents of these associations,
whom the Mayor has characterized as
"agitators," and a committee of citizens
will ask the Board of Aldermen for
straight $4,000 a year wage for patrol
men and flremen.
Among those who will speak on be-
half of the men are Herman A. Metz
former City Comptroller; Senator Alvah
Burllngame. Edward p. Doyle and Rob
ert Dowling.
A meeting OF the Civil Service Forum
was held in the Police Club. las River
side Drive, last night. Mr. Prial, pre-
siding. said the orders that Comm's-
sioners Enright and brennan issued TO
their men yesterday were unwarranted
even by the Mayors letter
Says Fight Is Nearly Won.
The fight the Civil Service Forum has
been waglng for almost year to get
more money for city employees Is nearly
won. he said. Originally the depart
mental estimates Of the Police and Fire
departments called only for a few spec nj
salary advances. Now at least $500 Ia
crease has been promised by the Board
OF Estimate, and It Is hoped that before
the budget for 1920 is closed the amount
will be raised to $500 for patrolmen and
firemen OF the lowest grade
Mr.. Prial exposed a fake" that he
said some Of the enemies of the Forum
had tried to put over An undertaken
named Dalton In Brooklyn. who is a
candidate for President OF the Board OF
Aldermen. he asserted, was named in a
Brooklyn paper last Sunday as tn,
idol Of the Police Department" The
article said he would get all the votes
of the firemen and police for his aid in
the effort to obtain n wage Increase
Mr. Prial stated this was untrue and
the Forum passed resolution condemn
ing the candidacy OF Dalton.
The Forum nominated as officers for
the ensuing year Frank J. Pral for
president, Sergeant Joseph Courteney
for vice president William Donovan for
treasurer and George L. Carnell for sec
retary. They will be elected at the next
monthly meeting.