Show ERS EACHERS MAKE APPEAL TO TOT TAXPAYERS AYERS AYERS' MASS ASS MEETING CALLED TO LET GET PUBLIC SUPPORT Salt Lake Asso Association Vot Votes to Insist Upon I Increase of f Salaries to 1800 as Wa Was Asked hI First Demand I Members of or the Salt Lake Lako Teachers Teachers' association adopted d a n motion yesterday to appeal directly to the taxpayers for fot salary increases The motion motton pr provides tar lor a mass meeting of or monster proportions tiona to be held Saturday evening at which teachers will directly appeal for r financial relief This motion was adopted w when n hundreds of teachers nie met afternoon in West high school and decided that drastic action must be taken The sentiment of ot the meeting s was definitely In favor lavor of ot continuing the fight for the OO increase this year This means that the maximum wage for teachers would be 1800 H OO Instead of ot 1600 a year ear A resolution to sign an In agreement to hold the new contracts until public sentiment has been learned J anc and to sup support port the emergency ency committee In every action they might take to secure au an increase this year was passed The contracts which will be offered to teach teachers rs for tor next year were read and contracts from other cities were compared with them Matters relatIng relatIng ing to tho the breaking of or contracts by teachers pay during absence and the dismissal of teachers for misdemeanors were touched upon upon but the chief at stumbling stumbling urn urn- bling bl block ck in the thc new contracts was th the question of ot sala salary J. J Fred Anderson principal Of or the tle lie J school said sad that unless the teachers unite to promote their own welfare and make teaching a profession sion slon Instead of or a Job we have no right to complain Hoard bard Incurs Debt Albert Hagen Hag of tho the Liberty school scho l. l chairman of the meeting called caned the at attention at- at of ot the teachers to the fact that tho the board of education had already gone Into debt to the the- extent of or 1 to make mako the increase already aheady agreed upon this year ear The feeling of ot the thema ma- ma seemed to be that the city was able to stand a further debt and that the people were were willing to support It Harold Madson of oC the Bryant school said said- saidI I hate to the unit see unity and loyalty loy by- alt alty which has been so manifest in this situation come to nothing There has ne never ner r been such a spirit of ot cooperation cooperatIon cooperation opera co tion in the association We are asking asking asking ask ask- ing ing- nothing unreasonable unreasonable and ard are seeking openly to ascertain the desire of ot the public in regard to the increase this year car A copy COP of ot the re resolutions wa was made to be circulated In the various arious school buildings to give gl absent teachers a a. chance toda today to support the action The majority of or the assemblage signed these resolutions and voted to uphold them The meeting adjourned after fixing Saturday evening e as the date for tho thomass thomass thomass mass meeting meeting- and anti Wednesday afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon as the next meeting of or the teachers teachers' teachers teachers' teach teach- ers' ers association |