Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-14
SUBMIT ESTIMATES
FOR SCHOOLS AIDS
go and 40 Per Cent Raise Is
+. Ready for Senator Walsh
Tomorrow.

Two estimates providing increases
in wages of janitors and other mem
bers of the District public school GUS
todian force were completed today
by school authorities and will be sub
mitted to Senator Walsh of Massa-
chusetts tomorrow or Mondoy. One
estimate provides for an increase of
40 per cent, while the other carries
an increase of approximately 80 per
| cent
Drafting of two distinct estimates.
| it was pointed out. was done with the
| belief that if Congress would not
! grant the go per cent increase. it will
! undoubtedly approve a 40 per cent
rate. Which of the estimates to be
! presented to the Legislative body has
been left entirely to Senator Walsh.
who. it is said, has promised to have
| the desired increases provided for in
| an amendment to an appropriation
| bill.
| What 60 Per Cent Carries.
The GO per cent estimate which the
| janitors hope will be granted pro-
vides for the following salaries:
Superintendent of janitors. $1,000
Central High, Mckinley High, Arm
strong High and Wilson Normal
Schools, four at $3.50 per annum
! each; electricians. two at $500 per
annum each, engineers of the Dun
! bar High School and. NJ street heat
! ing plant, two at $1.s00 per a!-num
each: assistant engineers. five at
! 81, $40 per annum each; tiremen, nine at
| $1,000 per annum each; skilled labor
! ers. ten at $1,000 per annum each;
| coal passers. four at S1,14O per an
mum each; janitors of the New Cen
trail High. Dunbar High. Mckinley
High. Armstrong High, Wilson Nor
nal, NJ Street. Douglass and Simmons,
group. six at $1,000 per annum each:
janitors of the Stevens. Emery, Mott.
H. D. Cooke. Gage. Van Buren,. Pet
worth and Wallach Schools, eight
itors of the Brookland, Congress
Heights, Grant, Webster, Bowen and
Syphax schools, six at $1.320 per an
mum each; janitors now receiving $40
per annum and not included in the
above classes. twenty-six at $1,000 per
$40 per annum. seventy-three at
$1,000 per annum each; janitors now
receiving $500 per annum, fourteen at
$1,000 per annum each: janitors now
receiving $3.50 per annum, three at $500
per annum each: assistant janitors.
eight at $1,000 per annum each; night
watchmen, five at $1,000 per annum
each; laborers, ninety-one at s1.140 per
annum each; matrons. eleven at $1,14O
per annum each; charwomen, to be
known hereafter as cleaners, five at
$3.50 per annum each, and one gardener
at $1,3S0 per annum.
What 40 Per Cent Will Do.
Granting of these increases will
mean the appropriation of approx
mately 1851, Os0 The other estimate.
providing for an increase of 40 per
cent, calls for the appropriation of
approximately $ss,260. This 40 per
cent increase provides for the follow
ing wages:
Superintendent of janitors. $2.100
per annum; engineers now receiving
$1,000, two at $1,000 per annum: engi-
neers now receiving $1,000. two at
$1.6S0 per annum; engineers now re-
ceiving $1,000. two at $1,400 per an
mum; electricians now receiving $1,000.
two at $3.50 per annum; assistant
engineers now receiving $1,000. four
at s1,400 per annum each; assistant
S1.260 per annum; janitors now re-
ceiving $1,100. two at $1,540 per an
mum each; janitors now receiving
81 900, twenty-one at 81, 400 per annum:
each; janitors now receiving 5000, one
at $3.50 per annum; janitors now re-
ceiving $500. one at s1,120 per annum ::
janitors now receiving $40, thirty
two at S1,176 per annum each; jan
itors now receiving $500, fourteen at
$40 per annum each; janitors now
receiving $3.50. three at $3.50 per an
mum each; assistant janitors now re-
ceiving 5000. six at $1.260 per annum
each; assistant janitors now receiving
s720. two at $1.008 per annum each:
gardner now receiving $40. one at
$1.176 per annum; night watchmen
now receiving 1920. five at S1.00S per
annum each; skilled laborers now re-
ceiving s72O. ten at $1.00S per annum
each; coal passers now receiving $500.
four at $40 per annum; charwomen
now receiving $3.50, five at $672 per
annum each; 1aborers now receiving
$500. ninety-one at $40 per annum
each. and matrons now receiving $500,
eleven at $40 per annum each.
These estimates will be presented
to Senator Walsh by Joseph H. Hur-
ley, president of the City Employees
Association. of which many of the
school custodian force are members
The increases are asked to become eff
fective July /.