The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-01-13
CITY DADS HAVE
OFFER ON BONDS
At GOOD FIGURE
Buyer Offers $500 Premium on
$4,000 Issue; VIII Not Accept
Now a. Policy 10 Give All
. Chance.
LABOR CONTROVERSY IS
CAUSE OF DISCUSSIONS
No Definite Action Taken by coun.
Gil; Motion to Establish - Pre-
cedent Killed: Other Mat.
ters Handled.

That tho $4,000 bonds voted hero
recently for bridges. sewer and
water main extension will sell above
par, was the indication at the coun.
ell meeting last night when II. w.
Mann. OF the Spitzer-Roark com.
pany OF Toledo. made an offer OF
par and two percent premium for
the bonds.
This offer Il was pointed out
would mean a premium OF $1,000
for the $4,000 worth OF bonds. The
offer. however. was rejected owing
to the fact taat II Is the policy of
the council TO give all bond buyers
the same opportunity. The mayor
and city council will advertise for
bids upon approval OF the bonds by
the attorney general.
AZ the meeting last night. ordi-
nances were passed Instructing and
authorizing the city officials TO
proceed In the regular channels 20.
ward the submission OF the bonds
TO the attorney general. In the ordi-
nances passed. the form OF bond
was described and all tho necessary
legal forms taken. City Clerk Well.
born stated this morning that the
transcript of the proceedings would
be In the hands OF the attorney gen.
eral by the last of next week. All
the proceedings have been tran
scrlbed to date and with the publ.
cation of the ordinances passed last
night. the job will be completed.
Labor Situation Talked.
No definite action was taken by
council last night with reference to
the labor situation resulting from
the protest of laborers that tba men
employed on the park Improvement
project at Shannon Springs.
Considerable discussion resulted
from this part OF the meeting a
number of laboring men being pres.
ent. City Attorney Hammerly who
Is also a member of the park hoard.
made short statement relative 10
the policies of the park board. He
pointed out that the park board
members had been working for weeks
without compensation and had been
devoting considerable time to the
park improvement project. He stat.
ed that the board had decided on
the wage scale of SO per day for
the park laborers, looking to the
interests OF the tax payers and 70
\ certain relief of the unemployment
situation here.
Tae council passed resolution
In which was extended vote OF
thanks to the park board members
Tor their work on the project and
FOR the manner In which they had
conducted the matter of public park
improvements. Following this reso.
luton, Councilman Duncan moved.
seconded by Councilman Hawn that
the past wage scale be sustained
and that future handling Of the ia
Dor situation on parks be concurred
in by the council.
Brings Much Protest.
This motion brought forth more
discussion and much protest on the
part OF some members of the council
as well as some Of the labor repre-.
sentatives present Mr.. Duncan was
requested to withdraw this motion,
but refused. A vote on the question
resulted in its loss by five to two
count. Duncan and Hawn being the
only two to vote in favor OF the
motion. 1t was evident that the
council did not wish to set the
precedent Of paying only SO a day
for work on park improvement.
It was thought by city Officials
this morning that the park board
would be governed largely in the
matter of wage scales, by the rec
concentrations of Mr.. Hughes, who
is here from the state labor COM
missioner's office to investigate the
matter Mr.. Hughes was not present
at the meeting last night, but was
still in the city this morning 1t
was believed that he would make
some recommendations in the mat
ter today.
New Filters Ordered.
Improvements that will make
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