Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-23
COMMITTEE BACKS
PAY FOR F|REMEN
ON POLICE BASIS
Same Classification Also
Favored in Report to
the House.
FORBIDS AFFILIATION
WITH "STRIKE" UNIONS
Some Cuts Made in Salary Recon-
mendations of Commits
sioners.

The same classitications for service
in the District fire department and
Identical salaries for the flremen as
for the policemen are provided in
bill reported by special subcom-
mittee to the House District conf
mittee today, on which a favorable
report to the House was ordered.
Chairman Mapes of the District Of
Columbia committee and Chairman
Gould of the special subcommittee
hope to get this bill acted upon by the
House on Monday, which Is the regu-
lar District day.
The same provision as was carried
in the police pay bill forbidding af-
filiation with any organization that
claimed the right to order a strike is
made ap. licable to the firemen in the
bill reported today.
Tire salaries. which are in addition
to the s240 bonus up to $4,000. and
which in many instances are in eN-
cess of the salaries recommended by
the District Commissioners, are as
follows:
Salaries Recommended.
Chief engineer, $4,000
Deputy chief engineer, $1,000
Battalion chief engineer $1,000.
Deputy Ere marshal. $1,000
Inspectors. $1.660 each
Chief clerk. $4,000.
Clerks stencgrapher, $1,000.
Thirty-eight captains, $1,000 each.
Forty lieutenants. SLIGO each.
Fifty-one sergeants. 81 200 each.
Superintendent of machinery. $500.
Assistant superintendent OF ma
chinery. $4,000.
The twenty seven engineers and TWEEN
1ony
abolished at the request OF the District
Commissioners. the present employees in
those positions being rated as third-class
privates al salary OF 81, $50 each. This
reform in the service was taken to gain
efficiency in the handling of motorized
Other Increases.
Other increases in salary are TWO
pilots. $1.700; two marine engineers.
81, 700: two assistant marine engineers,
81. $50: two marine firemen. which posi-
ton is now vacant because capable men
could not be secured at the salary of
$40, are to receive 81 400.
The privates are divided into three
classes, the 103 privates of the first
class TO receive an increase from 1860
to SLIGO; the 342 privates Of the sec
ond class to receive an increase from
$1,140 to $3.50, and privates of. the
third class to receive $1,660. The
same rule for promotion OF privates
is adopted as for policemen. A pri-
vate shall serve in the first class for
one year, in the second class for two
subsequent years and then shall au-
tomatically pass into the third class
if his work has been satisfactory.
Some Cuts Are Made.
The special committee in several in
stances reduced the salary from the
amount recommended by the Commits
sioners. This was done in the case of
eight battalion chiefs. for whom the
was $4,000 each,
while the bill carries $1,000. A SINH
lar reduction was made for the fire
marshal, and for one chief clerk and
for thirty eight captains. the reduc-
ton in each case bAing 500 from :he
Commissioners proposal.
Representative Lampert OF Wiscon-
sin protested against the no-strike
provision on the ground that it had no
place in a salary bill. but Representa-
tive Focht of Pennsylvania and others
insisted that 1t should be made plain
in the law that Congress would not
utilization with any or
which reserves the right
to call a strike.