The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-29
NEW SCHEDULE 1. IS EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 1ST Increases Will Total $595
 Monthly Or $7, LAO
 Yearly REVENUE SECURED BY NEW s COST FEE Judge Martin Fares Best Will Get $75 Per
 Month Raise

The city commission went on a salary raising rampage Tuesday afternoon and voted increases for 53 municipal employees, in addition to the policemen, firemen and detec- tives, who had previously been granted boosts aggregat- ing $9S,000.
 The new increases amounts to $OS3 n month, or $7,140 a year, and VIII go to employees who have not been raised since this administration took office. Comptroller Armstrong was ln- structed to revise the budget so as to make the increases effective November 1.
 Revenue to meet these pay hikes was made available by the commissions massage Tuesday morning of an ordi- nance providing cost fee of $3 in all noliee court cases that result in con yictions. This will bring in approxi- mately S7O,OOO a year--far more than enough to meet the salary raises that have been voted since the new budget was adopted. Commission members say they intend to use the balance in put ting on more policemen and firemen, but action probably will be deferred for month or more.
 Martin Gets $75
 Judge Henry J. Martin, city re. eorder. was the heaviest beneficiary of the increases voted at Tuesday after noou'e conference. He will get an ad- ditiunai $S per month, bringing his annual sas to. $$4 ,500. e.s.... .-. 9.i
 Two clerks in recorders court get -S15 per month each, md George Traf- ford. secretary to Safety Commissioner Cole. gets $15.
 President McLendons stenographer gets $10 month more; three clerks in Commissioner Dickson's office get S1O, and the stenographers of Com missioners Echols and Harrison get $1O each.
 Thirteen employees in the comptrol- ler's office get $1O each, and four building inspectors, five plumbing in spectors, four electrical inspectors and four meter and weights and measures inspectors, get $10 each.
 City Attroney W. J. Wynn's three assistants and the stenographer in his department are each given an addi- tional $1O a month, and two office clerks at the North Birmingham cleo tric and water works plant get SlO each.
 Garbage Men Raised
 In the garbage collection department, four efnploycs get increases totalllng $500 a year. One workman at the city garage gets $10 a month; one ware house clerk gets $10, and two at- taches of the department of tax col lection get $10 each.
 A few scattered raises in the various departments, including boosts for seven employees in the comptrOller's office, were included in the budget as origin ally compiled.
 The commissions generosity still leaves a large number of employees, some of whom are veterans. without increases, but President McClendon said they had been boosted last year or the year before.
 We tried to take care of those who have had to wait the longest and who are now earning low salaries" Me LendOn said. "We tried not to over look anybody"
 Comptroller Armstrong said the com mission did not cut into the estimated revenue from the cost fee plan to pro- vide many of the new increases. As a rule, they will be charged to the 1925 budgets of the commission members, he added.