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Show Would Double TeacherSalaries A campaign to double the salaries of teachers in various parts of the United States has been discussed at one or more sessions of teachers meetings. The argument is advanced that the "grand total of income for all groups has more than doubled dou-bled since 1940" and that it is up to teachers to put up a stiff fight for, more money. Professor Harold F. Clark, who has made a study of nation-wide school conditions, points out that the income of farmers rose from less than $6,000,000,900 in 1940 to $18,000,000,000 in 1946, that skilled skill-ed labor has more than doubled its income since 1440 and the unskilled un-skilled labor was paid more last year than the members of the teaching profession. The Professor is all set to give the teachers of the county an idea of what they should receive. He says that, whereas $3,500 may have been considered a top salary sal-ary for teachers of first graders, modern communities must think in terms of $5,000, $6,000 or $7,-000 $7,-000 ' for this group. He insists that teachers are worse off than in 1940, when they were not over paid, because of the rise in living liv-ing costs and the increase in taxes. |