The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02
SALARIES OF CITY EMPLOYES


 very interesting discussion cuts proposed in the municipal payro raises the question of the relationship between payments devoted to the public and for labor done in private establishments. this That labor is commodity, that is to be bought in the market the figure which it be obtained That able the worker to maintain his life and others to take his place, when he shall be gone
 This substance, the so-called iron law of wages
 In recent this concept of the of labor has been modified It is generally admitted that the worker must at least have maintain certain standard of living The result is partly expressed in the socaed minimum which founded standards obtained partly and indeed principally by extensive inquiries into actual cost of living in numerous families
 The minimum wage must enable married man to live in comfort with allowance sickness and remainder for savings and protection in old
 Such minimum wage will vary from time to time The wage money the real Merely to know that worker paid $3O week his not su ficient to know whether he is adequately paid
 This wage money might be sufficient community where living costs simple and low and insufficient in another community where costs high and the conditions of living complex.
 During the there in Bridgeport and everywhere as against 19 hreefod The 1914 cost taken hundred The index figure at it's maximum, was in the neghborhood of 32O
 When the salaries of poce fremen and school teachers increased together with those most city employees upon argument living had increased and that the higher would provide better standard of living than the old wages did.
 figure dropped or thereabouts and costs living decidedly will drop
 would appear therefore, that real wages higher they the time present city poyes fixed.
 salaries of school teachers entirely up- the basis of cost of living but partly upon the theory that the 1914 too low service of the character which teachers render.
 may American theory always has been that the public should be model employer public have usually been higher than private
 The question involved question of whether and salaries of public servants should should follow the rules that the those who private 1y employed
 wages public employees not because these individuals form and powerful who, employ themselves They the persons usually contrive the who have the duty of supervision, cutting operation easily arrived at.
 respect to the suggestion Mayor Atvater shall who conduct the affairs the the iron law. They do not come into the minimum They few in number and to the need which the market has for commodity all times The quite correct when the salary he receives is small salary for what he
 In the cutting which has forward certain injustice arisen Those who have sustained for the most part simply because their been fixed by charter ordinance. It the power the boards the Board Apporionment on to lower the compensaons unxed by law and this done. payroll, only plan immediately available.
 There is large unemployment. Public salaries out of proportion other citizens. Perhaps plan by voluntary might be arranged by which all who have sustained reducon the to be devoted fund for the of unemployment. r
 to bottom, it might be that all would be sacrifice if the matter by referendum other convenient fashion Perhaps something might be brought touch with the is to be filled again. k I0cf f.v,1C ToEIn nkruutcv