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Show SIT LIKE TEACHERS I CALL 1SS MEETIi I We Arc at End of Our Salary j Rope, Members of As- sociation Declare I I oALT LAKE. Feb. C Salt Lako I school teachers yesterday afternoon at' In called meeting at Lafayette school 'voted to call a public mass meeting, at which the true conditions of the I teachers will be laid bare. An appeal 'will bo made for. financial support to the board of education, which has al-1 al-1 ready created a special fund of $S0,- 000 tor emergency salary needs. The teachers declare this special fund is 'insufficient to meet present living conditions. con-ditions. The meeting yesterday was called by Margaret MacVichie. president of 'the Salt Lake Teachers' association, at the Instance of a petition signed by eighty teachers. Dissension in Ranks. I Dissension In the teachers' ranks was evident in several talks. Tho implication implica-tion that the executive board or tho association had not performed its duties,-growing oat of the vote to have the emergency committee program presented at the proposed public mass mooting, was answered in a vigorous platiortn speech by Miss MacVechie,; who declared she had taken the president's presi-dent's office much against her will, and was now bitterly regretting that she had accepted the honor. Her remarks followed a motion by George A. Eaton, principal of East high school, to express a vote of confidence con-fidence in the president and executive boa,-d of the association. This motion' came immediately after the action to-call to-call a public mass meeting. Mr. Eaton, resented what he termed a "charily" appeal to the public for financial assistance. as-sistance. Teachers Object of Charity. A teacher member declared that rents had advanced and all other living liv-ing costs were far beyond the proportions propor-tions of the teachers' pay envelopes. Th? teachers were at the end of their rope, she declared. "I, myself, have been an object of ' charity to my grocer, if you would call it that." said the speaker. "There are other teachers who cannot properly meet their expenses on their present'; wages. I do' not see how this appeal to the public for assistance, to which , wp are Justly entitled, can be considered consid-ered charity." 1 Hearty applause followed her remarks. |