Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
Treatment Of Police and FTremen

To the Editor Of the Evening Public LEDGER:
eir-r IL too bad these Councilman who
Nre now EettinE $1,000 n year. should lend
themselves to such petty things as wanting
VINO r. detailed In his bureau to do rome
other work. especially one who has besn In
jursd In the performance Of his duty.
How would these ehsir-warmsrs like II u
they werc injured and unable to attend 10
their regular duties and there wsrs some
other Jobs to be done that they could DO
and they were to 10 separated from thair
positions because they were not At for their
regular Jobsr
II IL not for the good Of tho city or the
welfare OF the Police or Fire Bureaus that
these Couneiinen are putting UP this kick.
N looks ss though they are playing politics
and Getting back at the Mayor. in which the
poor injured police and nrsfnen will do the
suffering.
When councilmen served tho city without
Day thare was none Of this petty spite work.
and tho city sot along a. we'll. n not better.
than II Is doing today. II would pay these
5000 Councilman who ore % wrought up
about . policeman or hrsmen who has eeen
injured and II now detailed to another lob
In his respective bureau better II they would
look after the city and the citiscns' interest
hy compelling the United Gas Improvement
Co., the Rapid Transit Co. and other public
utility corporations to live up to their con-
tracts which they entered into with the
city.
But treso corporations are big and power.
ful, whereas the poor policemen and nremen,
who have hard times to make both ends
ueot. are looked upon az legitimate game
fog exploiting.
am q fireman who has been disabled and
now detailed, and II these Councilman are
90 solic.tous about the city paying injured
and disabled policemen and hremen their
wares for being detailed in other isgitima te
Jobs In their bureaus why do they vote to
nay out millions and millions OF dollar. In
9Uafa nd D.
one instance. take the ground between Mas
ter and Jefferson and Eighth and Ninth
streets. occupied b. Industrial plants ant
along a railroad. that Councils has voted tc
make a playground OF IT,
This viii cost at least 1900 oOO II no
more. when Council could set another piec,
Of Eround for n playground around Eleventh
or Tenth and Montgomery that would an
Awer the purpose much better In every wa,
nnd at worry much less expense and not nea
railroad and not drive business away.
IL these Councilman have their way abou
this i Will have to Get out OF the cit
service as q fireman. and don't know wha
I will do, as hsvs a family and dom
know where can get = Job that will sur
port them, and there arc other pollcens
and nrsmsn In the same position as mS
self
tell you It 10 hard TO think that artc
city for about twelve years you get dlsR bic
and then thrown out into the world with II
prospects.
When the Mayor vetoed tn. appropriate
Of millions OF dollars to pay for a palac
on the Parkway and extra and unnacesEar
Jobs for the Municipal Court did theI
CounoilnNen uphold his veto about men holt
inH unnecessary jobsr No. they did no
but proceeded TO override his veto and vot,
20 give the Municipal Court all the mont
they asked for. and then because "A fe
poiicemsn and nremen who are disabled al
doing necessary work they are going To kI,
them out into the street But these CouI
eilmen are oil just and honorable. for did NJ
Marc Antony In his Grafton over the dee
body Of Caesar about Brutus. Cassius ar
the other members OF the party who sls
Caesar cry; Are they not all honorab
men DISABLED FIREMAN.
Philadelphia. May l6S 1891