Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-26
HAYES FAILS TO GET BOOKS:
KALTEISSEN IN STATEMENT
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and boss of the janitorS receives ST.
400 per annum. They also fail to
state that the custodian has an as
sistant to boss the six janitors at
$140 per month.
"In speaking of the janitors and
other employees, the ~freeholders say
this list of course does not include
the custodian, Mr.. Puerschner, who
is charged with the supervision of all
the buildings or Thomas Gavin who
| has been unable to work for several
months, and who is o critically
! ill, and confined to his bed. I have
sympathy for Mr.. Gavin, and. hope
| for his early recovery, but I fail
to understand why the freeholders
| were so careful to omit the salaries
of those attaches.
Taking the .f~reeholders at their
own statement as to the number of
, ianitors, the taxpayers of Middlesex
| county are paving six janitors $3.50,
| and to supervise the work of these
| six men, they are paying $4,000, per
annum, or in other words, each
| janitors has a boss. Do you call that
economy?
1.-THE freeholders say that some of
the janitors must report for work
at 6 o'clock in the morning. I
would like to know what they do at
that early hour of the morning :?
They dc not take care of the fur
mace In the summer, and in the win
ter season, Mr.. Payton can be seen
most any time in the furnace room,
and 1 presume he takes care of the
furnace.
1.-THE taxpayers of New Brunswick,
who have occasion to pass through
the court yard, a see the j~anttor-
| ial force any clear day, basking on q
bench in the sun. They can be seen
swapping yarns, and seldom If I'VE
do you see them pushing a broom.
Their chief duties are to corral votes
on election day, and to keep the ring
from being broken. In the summer,
one of the janitors has the added
duty of conducting an ice route in
New Brunswick, and it was not SO
long ago, that this same janitor
tried to convert the county record
building into a hennery.
THE freeholders take particular
pains to tell the taxpayers that the
law of the State provides that pub
lie employees are not obliged nor, are
they to be permitted under a severe
penalty, to work more than eight
hours a day. Another huge joke for
the janitors about the county build
ings will never be compelled to
work more than eight hours a day
except on election day, and then they
will be at the polls to save their
jobs. 1t would be interesting to
know how many hours per day these
janitors do put in about the county
buildings.
while it is true that the janitors
can do very little work during the
business hours, they have ample
time to. sweep the buildings and do
whatever janitorial duties are neces-
sary after business, and with the
large force on the county payroll, it
shouldn't take them more than one
holr to finish their work A visit
to the county buildings will show
that few If any janitors can be found
after s or 6 o'clock.
Il have absolutely no i'll feeling
against any Of the employees of the
county, but 1 say again that the
freeholders' own, personal, private,
political bracketed organization,
who are responsible for this extrav-
agance are to blame. 1 do not
blame the men for not doing any
work because as a matter of fact
there Is not enough work for them
to do around there, but I do say that
this ring that hires them, should
be broken up.
1.-THE freeholders take up consid-
cradle space in telling why it Is nee
essary to employ a force of six jan
itors, two bosses, a plumber and a
night Waterman, at a combined sal
airy of $15,490, and refer to the fact
that under the Democratic Board of
Freeholders, prisoners were utilized
in cleaning the buildings, and that
three men had to be employed They
state that they were forced to hire
employees when they were unable to
obtain board for these so-called
workhouse prisoners.
THE practice of using workhouse
prisoners was abandoned because
they were not delivered at the coun-
ty buildings in time to be of any use
early in the morning, the freeholders
state further. The taxpayers should
know that the workhouse comes un-
der the control of the freeholders,
and If they issued orders to deliver
the workhouse prisoners at 6 o'clock
who is there with power enough to
disobey this older. Then again, why
could not those janitors who arrive
at the county buildings at 6 o'clock
assist in bringing in the prisoners.
THE freeholders wanted to create
some soft berths for political satel-
lites and one way to do 1t was to
enlarge the janitorial force. Ten
political henchmen are more valua-
BILE on election day than a gang of
workhouse prisoners, and as for the
poor taxpayer, the freeho1ders
should worry. 1t is more important
to the freeholders to keep their
fences in good repair than it is to
give the taxpayers an economical
nd m~inistratinnn