The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-19

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". +. ialone. principal -------al,s 800 sLso
L. @. WorSteE ..--....- !, 40 !, 400
Miss l. NJ. Frye 1000 LOO
Miss N I. Davis ----- 90U LOCO
Baldwin and Young signed the report
and recommended the schedule be adopted.
Vice-president Nelson vacated the chair
In favor of Mr.. D00ly and read minority
report Of the committee on teachers with
respect to the schedule OF pay for high
school terchers as follows:
Gentlemen of the Board of Education:
Differing as 1 do from the judgment OF the
majority of the committee on teachers with re-
spect to. the schedule of pay for high school
teachers ] present the following as the best
approximation we can now make toward fair
ness:
Inc SlSU
The male instructors. each ---------- rs
The female instructors, each. Ito
do not present this as an absolutely fair
scale OF pay but as one approximately so. In
my opinion. based on frequent observations, the
lady teachers do fully as much work in the nigh
school as the male teachers do, and they do it
as well. The logic of this would be that they
should receive equal pay. But 1t Is said that
there Is q commercial difference in the market
which recognizes higher rate OF pay for men
Than for women. To that commercial distinc-
zion l concede $40 per month. But while not
disputing the equal value or the services rem
ueTeu py VDe lenale LeHclerS IN bllS SCHOOL, Inc
majority Of this committee say that they won't
pay equal wages for that equal service, nor
anywhere near it. They insist on paying pre-
NUNS to men simply because they are men
and on dlScounting the work of women, merely
because they are women. To this do not
agree.
1t is said further that inasmuch as the male
teachers IN this school have for the past two
years received Sl4J.00 per month each, they
should receive that sum again; that they will
be disappointed if they do not receive it; that
it would be unfair to keep them along to so late
date as this, conceding their unemployment
and now reduce their pay when it Is too late for
them 10 seek engagements elsewhere. TO that
/ reply that this Is the first time the board has
permitted this matter of teachers pay to come
up. | should have been glad had IL come up
earlier and the matter been settled long ago.
A mere delay in dealing with question is no
reason why it should be settled to the advant-
age of one party or The other. 1 d al with it at
the earliest possible time it is permitted me
to do.
The facts in regard to these two male in
Structors are these:
When we began the high school one of them
was named as principal OF the East Side high
school, and the other as principal Of the " est
side high school. Their salaries were accord.
ngly fixed on the basis of high school principal
ships. Afterwards the two germs of high
schools were consolidated, but the salaries
were untouched. They also renamed the same
last year, partly as salye as one might say,
for both being supers eded in the principalshp
salary on the old contracts. now. however. the
schools are organized throughout, and il Is time
that Irregularities and relics Of the imperfectiy
organized past should be swept away We
grade and classify their as. We have done so
as to all the regular graded WORK, but the ir-
regular past is continued by the ma
jority as to the high school. /
consent 10 it no longer The pay fixed
as above in this reeort for the male instructors
in the high school is the same as that received
by the principals OF the full eight grades as
agreed on by ali the committee-sl2o per
mon b. hold that it is really worth more to
accept the work ana responsibility of handling
an eight grade school than to be merely an in
structor in toe hi school; but my scale as
above gives these instructors exactly the same
as the principals referred 10, who are the high
est paid of any persons emplo ed In our grade
work. l cannot see the propriety of
at higher rate than we Day
the highest and most responsible OF our graded
prlncipaships | understand that IL is not the
Gus ON elsewhere To pay them higher nor
should ii be expected that such a custo n would
exist anywhere.
do not present this adjustment as a measure
OF economy, but of equalization of pay, graf ng
it or business lines. ana adhering as CLOSELY as
possible to what is just.
WILLIAM NELSON
Then followed discussion at consider
able length on the minority report.
Baldwin said he was not as gallant as
Colonel Nelson, and didn't see why the
salaries OF the ladies should be raised
Young agreed with Baldwin
Nelson disclaimed all pretentions to gal
lantry, and said it was simply matter Of
Justice that ladies should get as much pay
as men il they did as much and as good
work.
Nelson moved the adoption Of the
minority report, which was carried, to 3.
SUMMARY OF SALARIES
High school teachers -.....--s 800
Increased salaries Of principals on COM
pletion OF new buildings 200
Night school 625