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Some of Boston's underpaid firemen, policemen, and schoolteachers arranged to have post-office time cards punched for them. One man stayed away for 75 days and collected every nickel of his pay. Others came in snarling drunk. Regular employees began goofing off worse than ever, formed "50-50 Clubs" with the "temps," to cover up and split their $1.42 hourly pay. During the two-week Christmas rush, a smart checker could make as much as $5,000 by forgetting to mark down the absentees...
Supply & Demand. In Neustift, Austria, Fritz Rambusek, hired to blow the bugle which summons firemen, explained why he had set fire to several buildings: "I liked to blow [the bugle], and didn't have much opportunity otherwise...
Incorruptible. In Chicago, after feeding without charge the cops and firemen who were battling a blaze near his restaurant, Al Lee found a parking ticket...
...cops were not abashed. Headquarters immediately leaked a rumor intended to intimidate the council-that 2,000 bluecoats would quit en masse if the law was passed. The firemen-at least on the surface-struck the same defiant pose. The association not only gave Purcell a vote of confidence, but decided to continue his salary out of union funds and kick through with all the money he needed for his defense...
...fire. He announced that another $135,000 was missing from the U.F.A.'s funds and pointed an accusing finger at the union's President John P. Crane. When Crane refused to sign an immunity waiver, he was summarily fired from the department. But, said Crane, the loyal firemen would also make up his salary out of the union treasury...