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Superintendent Bogan then proceeded to outline a substitute plan by which the disputed $4,000,000 could be saved, chiefly by still another two-week shortening of the school term, a payless week for teachers. But the audience, happily accepting Dean Judd's figures, would hear of no more school economies. Ignoring Superintendent Bogan, they adopted unanimously resolutions: 1) demanding that the Board rescind its order or resign; 2 & 3) calling on Mayor Kelly and Illinois' Governor Henry Horner to intervene; 4) extending "profound thanks and appreciation" to William Randolph Hearst and the editor of the Herald & Examiner...
...attend. The polite guests did not refer to their host city's negligence. They called her not by name, but more than one of them took digs at the type of municipal financing Chicago has done, particularly ''borrowing" from schoolteachers and firemen by foisting on them payless pay days. Chief causes of city financial trouble as diagnosed by the conference...
...talk were talked over again at length last week by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor before it closed its fortnight's session at Atlantic City. Rehashed were the six-hour day, the five-day week, more jobs to be made by Congress, the Government's payless furlough plan. The council flayed both Republican and Democratic platforms for being "vague and extremely disappointing" to Labor but, always nonpartisan, endorsed no nominee for the Presidency...
...Hoover. "It falls far short of the economies proposed." For fiscal 1933 which began last week the measure saved $150,000,000-2.9% of the Government's 1932 spendings of $5,006,000,000. Principal economy: furloughing government workers earning $1,000 or more per year for one payless month out of twelve...
...Substitution (38-to-26) of President Hoover's 30-day payless furlough plan for Government employes in place of the 10% wage cut voted earlier...