The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13
MigIioro Hits Delay On Pension
 Young ltolion
 COP Head Louds
 Cops, Bremen

''Is it possible that there is a sinister fUrce preventing Governor Raymond E. Baldwin from signing the Watereury Employes Pension Bill" asKeu Eugene Migliaro, pres ident of the Young Italian Repub- lican party, today as he announced his active support and membership on the Citizens Committee which is circulating petitions through out the city in an effort to secure a sufficient number of signatures to insure the placing of the matter on the voting machines in the com ing elections in the form of pop ular referendum
 Said MT. Migliaro, Tt has been called to my attention that the City Employes Pension Bill was placed on the desk of Governor Baldwin over ten days ago. Under the laws of our state the governor must either veto a measure or sign it within ten days after it reaches his desk. In the event he does not sign or veto the bill within the ten day period the measure auto- matically becomes a law of oul state.
 "Is it possible that there are sim ister forces at work to hold back the signing of the bill until a few days before the dead line for secur- ing the presenting our petitions? We must have our petitions filed by the twenty-eighth of this month Thus, as of today we have only IS days in which to secure the re- quired number of names of voters. Each day that the governor with holds signing the bill cuts down the Is days carrespondingly.
 T do not charge that there is a conspiracy being played at the ex- pense of our city employees, but ] do charge that it looks very pecu- liar"
 'Tne pension bill which was passed by the recent session of the general assembly snacks of power politics and power politics is akin to something which is un-American It is, a fact that the pension bill was adopted by the legislature under very suspicious circumstances.
 'The original bill was labeled Senate bill 75. This was the bill which won the support of the pub lie personal committee of the legis- lature but only after a public hear ing had been held on a number of pension bills. At the very last mo- ment, a substitute bill for Senate bill 75 was slipped through the legislature and when it was voted on by the members of the legiSla- ture there were not dozen of them who knew what they were voting for"
 "Yet these Hartford politicians would have us adopt and put into effect measure which we know is discriminory against our public ser- vants."
 'The bill discriminates against the members of our Police and Fire department to such an extent that if the measure becomes law and goes into effect on January First the morale of our Fire and Police deparmtent which drop to the low est level in the history of our city. If We want an efficient up to the minute Police and Fire de- partment in our city when we must prevent doing anything which would tear down their morale. h. stead of tearing down the morale of these trusted and honored employees we should do all in our power to make their positions and their fut- ures more secure, because by mak- ing those departments efficient inn proving working conditions and se- curing their futures, we can attract to the forces the proper type people
 Tt is a matter of record that today we have the most highly effi- cient Police and Fire departments in the entire state, every last citi- zen should exert his influence and power to make certain that we con- tinue to maintain that type oi force. We can do this in no better way than to postpone the Pension law for another ten years.