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- whose pay is less than $8 be raised to $8, and I added that
I found it impossible to get men to stop in the Fire Brigade
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for any length of time at $6 and $7.50 a month. I further pointed out that it was essential to the efficiency of the Brigade
that men who had been trained to the work should stop in the Department.
In January of this year the Chinese Members of the Brigade again addressed me on the subject of their pay, and I
told them that they must wait.
It appears that it has become known recently that the Chinese employés in some Departments have received an increase in their pay, while those in others have not.
Hence this last complaint to me of insufficiency of pay.
The Chinese Staff is paid as follows:-
2 Engine Drivers $25.00 per month each $50 5 Stokers $13.00 12 $12.00 20 $10.00 $100 10 Firemen $10.00 $18 2 Watchmen $9.00 9 $7.50 $6.00 $67.50135
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