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Show TEACHERS PLAN TO FIGHT FOR HIGHER WAGES Central Utah school teachers today to-day prepared to join a growing statewide movement to carry the fight for higher teachers' salaries direct to the state legislature after a rally Sunday in the Provo high school auditorium at which they heard, among other things, a proposal from a militant Tintic district spokesman to close schools for a week and march upon the state capitol. The meeting was' attended by better than 700 teachers, with a few school board members and state legislators present. Most of those present were from the Provo, Alpine, Nebo, Juab and Tintic districts, but scattered representation rep-resentation was present from Og-den Og-den to Sevier county and as far east as Uintah. Unknown to the bulk of those attending, a rift developed after the meeting when the Tintic district dis-trict delegation refused to allow their president to sign the resolution resolu-tion demanding the Utah Educational Educa-tional association scale of $2280 to start, with an increase of $100 per year up to $3880 after 16 years. The Tintic group held out from the first of the meeting for a $2400 minimum. When the $2280 resolution was passed verbally, there were no dissents from the Tintic group, but David Eager, Tintic association president, said (Continued on Page Two) detected in the attitude of teachers teach-ers recently concerning the salary question, Lynn Johnson, Pleasant Grove, Alpine teacher association president, bluntly told his audience, audi-ence, "We've crawled on our bellies long enough.'" Harrison Parker, Weber district teacher president, warned that teachers must be sure they had the public backing before taking any drastic steps. "A march on the state capitol wouldn't get very far," he said, "unless the people of the state were solidly behind you." Signers of the $2280 minimum resolution from four of the five principal districts represented were Ivan Young, Provo, Provo district; Reed Jones, Payson, Nebo district; Theron Snyder, Nephi, Juab district, dis-trict, and Lynn Johnson, Pleasant Grove, Alpine district. Allan West, Salt Lake City, executive secretary, Utah Educational Educa-tional association, said amendments amend-ments to the present school legislation legis-lation will be offered by the U. E. A. "this week" to correct the situation sit-uation from the standpoint of teachers' salaries. Teachers Plan To Fight For Higher Wages (Continued from Page One) following the meeting that his delegation would not allow him to sign it. He later told other association asso-ciation heads that he would like to sign it personally but that he was not empowered to sign it as representing his district. The resolution was signed by the association president of the Provo, Alpine, Netoo and Juab districts, dis-tricts, as officially representing their districts, and by a few other presidents from outlying districts who said their teachers had endorsed en-dorsed essentially the same program pro-gram or would do so. Local educational leaders claimed claim-ed Tintic's refusal to sign the resolution res-olution was not necessarily a sign of discord, but that they did not want to commit themselves to a $2280 minimum when they intended intend-ed to go after $2400 in their own district. Alonzo Sandstrom, Tintic high school teacher, delivered the principal prin-cipal address, a militant statement state-ment of the teacher's case, summarizing sum-marizing the squeeze of low salaries salar-ies and high living costs between which the teachers find themselves. In his andress, and in literature passed out by the Tintic group before be-fore the meeting, a $2400 minimum for teachers with a bachelor degree, de-gree, and the closing of the schools with a teachers' march on the state capitol, if necessary, were advocated. Echoing the rising note of vigor |