Show TEACHERS IN ARMS OVER THREATENED TERM CUl I I Strike t e Is Hinted If f Board Insists on Insists r. r on Present cn J 5 Yr t. Stand 7 I CONTRACT ATTACKED Al TACKED L Instructors A N Excuse Excuse Excuse Ex Ex- Ex- Ex cuse Exists for 9 S ing S i Year 1 r. r J I I I The g Line r Here is the c itte of the Salt Lake 1 Teachers Teachers' he s association association association tion that will win make rii iii ke a fight against salary George A Av Eaton KEaton high school p principal Mark C C. C Bro Brown p principal of Whittier f. f Miss Miss' Grace H. H Stanchfield Wasatch Wasa school Miss La Laura a Foster domesticI domestic I science gr grade dC teacher e chef Miss iss Alice Alic E. E Rowe Rope eastside east eastside eastside side high school Miss Elizabeth Eliz b th Fitzgerald west westside sid side high cho school l. l S Simon non B Bamberger berger member of 9 S school ho ls survey F board oard g g t b j is s th the thi V way ay Miss IS EI t president pf of the Silt Lake Teachers Teachers' Teach Teacher ers err ass a r thes the thi s spirit ir t that that t p pr yesterday ii in 1 JUle rot st st. meeting df f city teachers teacher S h held heid d t the h h hool i. i Ther no s. s o was J enty nty of of n on th the cl city school Ol d fOIl forts fort's t te Sl 6 ni g 1 ar thu c t tIng all teachers teachers' sal sal fes THe nation had been sir since since- ceth the teachers received copies copies of ot their 1916 17 yearly contra contracts ts and it b burst Into nto a flame yesterday The teachers left no m D doubt in the minds of any who w were we're me re represent e present that they will fight It ou out t along this line If it takes all summer and that some some assurances must b be e given them of at fair dealing or none will wil l sign a contract Upon the outcome of a conference e of a special committee named yesterday yesterday yester yester- day by President Messmore with members members mem mem- bers of the board Monday night de depends depends de- de the settlement of the trouble a that now has assumed big Unless the school board comes come S to terms a strike of or school teachers I is S even threatened though it is hoped hope 1 that the matter may be settled b by V arbitration Teachers May Strike But that this strike sentiment I is S no mere threat and that the teachers teacher SS S I have the power to make it go unless s ss S I their demands are pet met was shown yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- by the unanimity of opinion hostile to o the school board at the mass mas 5 meeting The meeting too was a representative representative representative rep rep- one there being about 50 I present D. D H. H Christensen city superintendent superintend superintend- ent was vaS W S roundly ch cheered ered when he h a made a stick together plea saying r that in union there is strength As Franklin said If we dont don't t hang together we will hang separately separate separate- ly was the superintendents superintendent's comm com corn m ment The contention 0 of t the le school board in defense of the clause put into next years years contracts making possible a nine-month nine school year was expounded expound- expound ed by Dr F. F S. S Bascom lone school board member present He insisted that the big deficit will make it necessary necessary necessary sary to retrench on salaries Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent Christensen George A. A Eaton r J. J Fred Anderson Anderson Miss Fitzgerald Itzgerald Miss Messmore and others Insisted that there Is no need Of ot ota a retrenchment retrench retrench- ment that ment-that that if there be the slicing Continued on oil page 3 TEACHERS IN ARMS Vi Continued from page 1 should hould be done somewhere else not in inthe inthe the salaries of teachers That the teachers are fighting for principle and for the sake of the students students students stu stu- dents rather than mere money was the declaration of Miss Fitzgerald She declared every teacher would be willIng willIng willing will will- ing to forego the increase of salary proposed in order to work a month longer which would mean practically no more money Women Will Fight Strange to say though most of the members the of meeting were women women- and school teachers at the that that the men did most of the talking and the women merely cheered But they showed by those cheers and their few snapping re remarks remarks remarks re- re marks at Intervals that they are In the scrap every everyone one of them with both feet The entire attitude of the association might be summed up like this tills We be believe believe believe be- be lieve the school board will do the tho right thing it thing it must do dd the right thing that thatis is give us a full ten months Incidentally L. L P. P Judd clerk clerIc of the I board of education came came In for a goodly good good- Iy ly share of criticism ism and some very caustic remarks were were made about his I administration of school affairs V |