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Show REPORT OPPOSES TEACHER UNION Salt Lake Convention Group Recommends Against Affiliation Affili-ation With Labor SALT LAKE. July 7 The national na-tional education association's commission commis-sion on "emergency In education"! made a cieareut recommendation against affiliation of teachers with enyl "religious, polltlr.-il or economlcl group In a report presented to the' association The report read by Georce I . Stray-, er. of Columbia university, vice-president of the association, said "Teachers as a unit cannot fedt rate i with labor aiui m tne time hope to keop the confidence ol the whole people." It described stcp3 leading to thel drafting of th. "Smith-Towner bill" toi create a department of education with ! Its head a member of the president's! cabinet, and made an argument In be- ! half of the measure. It is a sound principle which pro-i pro-i poses that the wealth of the nation be put baek of the education of all tta i children." the report declared I Touching on salaries the report as- serted fl.SOO was the minimum neCOs-oary neCOs-oary for "existence" without provision provi-sion for the future, and declared that $1,800 annually was necessary to assure as-sure the average teacher economic In-1 I dependence. It added that 10 to 201 I per cent addttlonul must be paid If the teacher Is to have opportunity for "cultural growth." The report said It' was an error to draft the ablest of! our class room teachers for admlnis-j tratlve posts." The question of affiliation of teach-' : ers' organizations with labor bodies brought on a colloiuy in the meeting of the national council of education, in which Mrs. Susan Horsey. Nuperin-' I tendent of schools of Los Angeles re-I re-I f erred to Miss Murgaret Kaley of the' Chicago Teachers' assoelation as a1 soap box orator." |