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Bill to increase life saver's pay.

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LIFE SAVERS
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Good Prospect For Increased Pay
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The life saving service is in a fair way to receive a boost at the hands of this congress a Washington dispatch says. The house committee on commerce has concluded its hearings, and is now going over the bill for amendments.
The sentiment of the committee is said to be in favor of a substantial increase in compensation, and there is reason for believing that this sentiment is shared by members of the house and senate.
One proposition, designed to better the service on the lakes, is to pay the surfman all the year around, instead of paying them only for the open season.
The argument advanced in committee is that surfmen laid off for the winter months get other work and decline to go back to the service in the spring.
The Lovering bill, on which the hearings have been held, provides a ten percent increase on the completion of each five year period of service, but no member shall receive more than four such increases.
The bill also provides for pensions in case of disability, the pensions paid in accordance with the grade of the pensioner. For pension purposes a lieutenant of a life saving district shall have the same rank as a lieutenant in the navy; a keeper of a station shall have the same rank as an ensign in the navy; a surfman shall rank as a warrant officer.
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A later dispatch says:
Life savers on the great lakes are not to be given the boon of pay throughout winter months, according to a provision in the bill which was voted out yesterday by the house committee on commerce.
Rep. Townsend says he tried to secure a provision for pay throughout the year, but the committee decided that this would open the door too wide, as life savers along the Atlantic coast are also laid off part of each year.
The bill carries an increase of $5 per month for first surfmen, subsistence allowance of about 30 cents per day for other surfmen and an increase of $200 per year for superintendents. The proposed pension features were eliminated.

Newspaper: 
Review
NewspaperDate: 
Thursday, February 27, 1908