DETROIT VOTES TO EQUALIZE PENSIONS OF ITS FIREMEN
Three to One, Citizens in Election Decide to Remove Unfair Features of System— Other Political Issues Reduce Affirmative Votes
BY a vote of three to one, or 81,054 in the affirmative and 27,391 in the negative, the citizens of the city of Detroit, Mich., last week voted to equalize the firemen's pension system, which had been regarded as unfair and inequitable, due to a change in the city charter in 1918, which had the effect of working a hardship on any member of the department who might have been appointed subsequent to 1918.
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