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4651 1/2 Pickford Street
Los Angeles
Dec 11/31

Dear Sidney

Will scratch off a few lines to express what I have on my chest.  I saw in the paper that all federal employees might have a salary cut. That is to save money for the big income tax payers.  The city employees here, who are waxing fat & prosperous at the little real estate owners expense will not be molested until the property owners get strongly organized.  To men here in the city engineers office hav'nt [[haven't]] done a tip of work for months but are drawing full pay just the same. Well about the reduction in your salary. How soon could it take effect after congressional action & how would it affect your ability to continue your loan to us. E & I talk over what we'd better do & I puzzle my head over it in the night but we seem to come up against a brick wall in every direction. The brick wall consists of the uncertainly of everything.  If we knew what