Show I More Pay for Teachers I IS II EVEN HUNDRED teach teachers rs employed in the Salt Lake City I S O SEVEN schools have determined to join in a demand upon the board I of education that their salaries be raised They are entitled to a higher wage and although financial limitations may make it impossible impossible impossible im im- im- im possible to grant immediate relief there should be none to complain complain complain com com- plain if the new budget to be submitted early in January makes an I appropriation sufficient to meet the request made by y the teachers Teachers in our schools are arc now receiving an average salary of about a year This is above the general average throughout through through- out the nation but that is no argument against granting t the e Salt Lake City teachers a decent wage The fact is the average wage paid teachers in the United States is a national disgrace when we consider we are intrusting these teachers with the instruction o of I Ithe the young men and women who in the next generation will govern this nation We Ve face too the fact that because of low salaries there are hundreds of thousands of vacancies now in the educational staffs of the public school in this country And the number of vacancies will rapidly increase if greater inducements are not offered our educators Considering the local situation we find that in the grammar schools of Salt Lake City an assistant teacher is paid a year while teachers' teachers salaries range froma front minimum of to a maximum maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum of 1300 The grammar school principal receives 2600 In the high schools salaries for instructors range from 1000 1 to 1700 1700 a year department heads receive 2000 and the supervising supervising supervising super super- principal These figures show that the average teacher is paid less than the average day laborer and less Jess than half what a skilled carpenter or bricklayer receives The injustice is too apparent to need comment |