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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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178 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [November 23, We have a bond filed to cover the withdrawal of alcohol for use in our laboratories, but we cannot withdraw alcohol under this bond for use in our hospital. A separate bond such as referred to above is required for this purpose. I enclose herewith a draft of a resolution, which must be passed by the Board of Trustees, in order that a bond of this kind can be furnished. I trust that action can be had on this resolution at the first meeting of the Board. Cordially yours, LLOYD MOREY [RESOLUTION] RESOLVED, That Lloyd Morey, Comptroller of the University of Illinois, be authorized to file with the Collector of Internal Revenue properly executed bond in the sum of One Hundred Dollars, to cover withdrawal of alcohol for use in the University hospital. On motion of Mr. Blair, this resolution was adopted. WAGES OF AGRICULTURAL LABORERS (5) Certain recommendations as to wages of employees in the departments of the Agricultural College and Experiment Station. Urbana, November 21, 1918 President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois M Y DEAR M R . PRESIDENT: I am returning the recommendations which you handed me yesterday, concerning increases in wages of employees in the Departments of Dairy Husbandry, Agronomy, and Horticulture. The recommendations from the Animal Husbandry Department had preceded these by one or two days and should be taken into consideration in the same category. In this connection I note an error in transcribing in the case of Mr. Bert Gudgel, the second name on the list, which should read $95 instead of $90 for the proposed salary. Concerning the original recommendations I have this to say: They were made after careful consideration by our Labor Committee, composed of one man from each department, taking up the cases man by man. After their recommendations were made, a joint discussion of considerable length was held between that committee and our conference of heads of departments. These recommendations were filed before the signing of the armistice, and I did not know but that perhaps conditions might have changed slightly since that event and therefore asked the opportunity for reconsideration before you should make final disposition of the case. Accordingly a joint conference was held yesterday of the Committee on Labor and the heads of departments, the result of which was that wc see no way in which these recommendations can be modified at the present time. There is no doubt in anybody's mind that the amounts involved are in some cases excessive as compared with wages under normal conditions, but wc are confronted by a situation which is unparalleled in our experience. These men have been clamoring for raises for months. Many have gone to other and more lucrative employment. The best of these men have all been offered larger pay than is involved in these recommendations. Mr. Chapman, for example, the most conspicuous case in the list, has a standing offer from Mr. Thompson of restaurant fame to operate his
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