PI on April 19 "Finance and Commerce," in its dealing with questions raised at the annual meeting of rate-issue of April 26 has the following to say on the subject of "Public Utility surcharges."
Mr. Stewart accomplished nothing because he endeavoured to accomplish too much. A large part of his speech upon the Economy Committee dealt with the question of giving exchange compensation on ai ne-third of the salaries of "A" class employees instead of on one-seventh, and with the hi elp of charts he endeavoured to demonstrate what this change meant on a percentage increase basis.
Admittedly this point has never been satisfactorily explained, and the speaker might have secured a useful elucidation of the mystery if he had contented himself with a direct question which could have been given a direct reply.
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