Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-04 | Page 7 | Teachers Decide on Blanket Increase in Salaries

TEACHERS DECIDE ON I BLANKET INCREASE I SALARIES Throuph ihr Teachers' association of the Ogden schools, a formal appli cation for an increase in salaries under un-der a 'blanket" plan will be made to the school board as soon as the com- j mittee will meet with the board this afternoon and that the school board v. ill crant tho schedule apodled at a I A' meeting held yesterday afternoon. The members of the association held J a meeting at the Ontral Junior high school yesterday afternoon and adopt" I ed a scale of salaries thai they had 1 discussed previously, the minimum -nl . ary for a grade teacher being $1000 a I Theie was considerable discussion I at the meeting, and at times it seemed the teachers could not agree on the scale, many belieins they should ask for more than $1000 as the minimum. This attitude was explained by a num- I ber of the teachers in remarks show II ing that such a salary is not adequate I to provide the teacher with a decent living. In commenting on this phase, M me livelier said, "Do any of you hi l II mean to tell me that such a salary Is a decent living pay for an important 5 work?" I, As originally presented, this scaje I placed a minimum of $800, but the J leachers adopted an amendment providing pro-viding for a nunimum of $1000 and for a general raise of the entire proposed schedule by the same amount, stating this was necessary in order that the increased cost of living could be met. Schedule as Adopted. The schedule, as adopted, ianm s as follows: Ele- Vear. mentarv Junior Senior First .... .$1,000 Ou SI, 200 00 $l.o 1 Second . . . l.s.v- 71 1,2V, 71 !,r. $.", Thud 1,171.42 1,371. 42 1,485.70 Fourth ... 1,257.13 1,46113 1.578.55 Fifth 1,342 84 1,542.84 1,671.40 Sixth 1,448.55 1,628.55 1,761.00 Seventh .. 1,514.26 1,714.28 1,857.10 Eighth .... 1,600.00 1.800.00 1,950.00 Dept. heads 2,150.00 Signing of Contracts After considerable discussion of the resolution and numerous amendments the teachers also decided unanimously unanimous-ly that they would not sign any contracts con-tracts for teaching until a satisfaetor 'alary schedule had been adjusted between be-tween the Ogden board and the Teachers' Teach-ers' association. The view was ex pressed, however, that if the school board members realized the conditions condi-tions as to salaries there would be no question of the raise being giv n.