Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-26 | Page 16 | Teachers Resent Slacker Charge

TEACHERS RESE1T SLfiCKER CHARGE Over Half Answer Calls for Aid; Must Make Up Time Lost. The insinuation that they are drawing their usual salaries though Idle during, the period the schools are closed during the epidemic of influenza, and that they are slackers instead of responding- calls j to care for the- sick, is being hotly resented re-sented bv Salt Lake teachers. Though salaries of principals and teAchers of city schools have been paid to October IS, thev must make up the time absent from ! their classrooms on account 6 the epi- i demlc. A ready resronse to calls for aid has 1 been made, according to J. "Fred Ander-son, Ander-son, principal of Iafayette school, who j is in charge of Judge Mercy hospital. Fifty per cent or more of the teachers j have answered the appeals for nurses, white all volunteering their services have not been accepted, Mr. Anderson paid. The following enclosure was placed in the envelopes with the salary checks: To principals and teachers of city schools: payment of salary In full to October j 1S, is made .herewith, after a conference between the board of edn- cation and the executive committee of the i Salt T,ake teachers' association in which conference the executive committee took the following action : "It is approved that the teachers' j corps be notified that in return for the payment made It will be expected to make up hereafter the equivalent work lost during the period of embargo for influenza." in-fluenza." L. P. JlPD. Clerk.