HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974 12-05 Maplewood withdraws donation to contest minimum wage law DISPATCH Maplewood withdraws
on ;
to contest mi i9z
um wage law
Maplewood's City Coun- previous counci action not been able to reach don't want to hire any-
cil has withdrawn a $100 was by a unanimous vote. (contract)agreement." body," G r e a v u said.
contribution to help con- Earlier, the council had In addition to Bruton, "That's the way 1 feel. A
test the federal minimum voted 3-2 to send the $100 the contribution once had person is entitled to a fair
wage law. to the National League of the support of Wiegert wage. To me, this mini-
T H E REVERSAL of Cities—to become part of and Councilman Burt mum wage isn't even a
a fund in challenging the Murdock. fair wage in this day and
constitutionality of the Murdock apologized for age."
law. his first stand. He said his sentiments
Mayor Robert Bruton, Like Bruton, he said he were with "labor all the
who had been with the thought his opposition to way."
original majority, suc- the minimum wage was 'Do' you know how
cessfully asked for recon- for parttime helponly. manydied for some-
sideration of the matter. ' guys
Bruton, who received was suckeredinto• thing like this (minimum
DFL and labor backing this thing," he comment- wage) in this country?"
when he ran for mayor, ed. "Let's put it plainly. he inquired.
said he was criticized"for Councilman John Grea- "1 can remember," he
his stand. vu and Norm Anderson added, "when I came up
He said he always fa- had always backed the working for 15 cents per
vored at least the mini- minimum wage law. hour. I'm damned if 1
mum wage for fulltime "If we cant pay a guy want to see that happen
employes, but not for $2.20 per hour, then we again."
parttime employes.
• SOME OF Maplewood's
municipal employes —
members of Local 2527 of
the American Federation
of State, County, Munici- •
pal Employes —had cen-
sored the council in a res-
olution for making the
contribution.
Councilman Don Wie-
gert said he "found the
censoring a little odd."
"I'M NOT aware that
any of these other munici-
palities •were censored," •
he noted, "and only one of
our unions did so, and
with amazing rapidity."
He attributed the cen-
soring by Local 2527 to
"extreme frustration . . .
in the fact that we have