The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-13
SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SALARIES
DISAFFECTED ONES WANT A RE-
FORMATION OF AGREEMENT.
The Board of Education Inclined to
Firmness and Resistance to the
Demands Made.

The view taken by members of the
board of education on the rebellious at
titude of some of the school principals
with reference to the schedule OF salaries
fixed last June for the ensuing. school
year, comedies with the 6Zinion eX-
pressed by several citizens and taxpay-
ers who have followed the trend of
events. Two members of the school
templated action of the disaffected prin-
cipals savored very much OF con-
spiracy to coerce the board into disturb
ing settled conditions which were mu-
tually satisfactory, thereby breaking
faith with the taxpayers and violating
confidence with the grade teachers The
principals will present their grievance to
the board at its next session and ask for
a readjustment of the fixed salaries, I'M
less a reconsideration of the proposition
is had.
The grievance of Principals Mckay of
the Lowell school, Alvey of the Washing.
the Grant, Keeler of the Webster, Bar
ton of the Sumner, Bradford of the
Jackson and Eddingfield of the Fremont
school is that an understanding was had
with the board early in the summer,
whereby salaries were not to be re-
duced, the consideration being that the
principals as well as the teachers had
volunteered to teach to serve free the
last two weeks of the nine months school
year if insufficient~funds were on hand
to maintain the schools the full period.
NOW the principals alleSe IQdI the DOdrQ
broke its part of the agreement by
changing the schedule so that it operated
as a cut in salaries. Last year the
principals were paid on basis of class
rooms, that is Sis per month for nine
to II rooms. S120 for Got exceeding IA
rooms and $135 the maximum salary for
the largest number of rooms. The new
schedule, fixes $40 per month as the
salary basis for principals, plus ST
monthly for each teacher under the
principals charge, the maximum being
$50 a month.
POINTS AGAINST THE PRINCIPALS.
This is the sticking point with the
principals, but the board is likely to fail
to see the point. The position maintain
ed by two of the school board members
is that there was no breaking of agree
ment on the boards part and that what
ever reductions, or rather CIVILIZATIONS
were made were eheerfully acquiesced in
by the principals. The fact was cited
yesterday that ali but two of the princi-
pals had signed an acceptance of their
appointments for the coming year after
the new schedule had been fixed, and
these two Mckay and Alvey. asked for
and were granted an extension Of ten
days in which to file their acceDtances
but the extended time laDsed in June,
and under the regulations they were
deemed to have declined.
In all the contracts of employment of
teachers and principals their concession
to teach did not exceed two weeks with
Jul duulllOHdl compensation, IN the event
that funds for payment. of salaries are
exhausted at the end of eight and a half
school months. is made one of the
stipulations. Principals Barton, Martin,
Mccoy and Keller have signed this con-
tract under protest, but Principals Nc
Kay and Alvey have refused to execute it
as required.
On Saturday the teachers pay checks
for the first month will be disbursed and
acting under instructions from the
board of education finance committee and
in obedience to the law, Clerk Moreton
will withhold the compensation due to
the two particularly bellfgerent princi-
pals.
This action will probably bring the con-
tention to q focus If the hoard vie DIS
to the demand to raise or restore salaries
the principals will have won a victory
without appealing TO the courts, but it
is hardly probable that they will do
other than to revoke their inclination to
abide by the boards conclusions, which
is quite likely to be a reaffirmation of
of its action in fixing salaries on the
basis agreed upon.