The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-05-31
WONDERFULLY GOOD WAGES.

Splendid Opportunity for Wage Earn
ers Who Are Especially Skilled.
The Wageworker cuts the following
advertisement from a Lincoln daily
news paper and prints it without
money and without price. We are al
ways glad to afford publicity to mat
tiers of this kind:
TEACHERS WANTED-one for the
9th and 9TH and one for the 9th and
9th grades; salary $50 per month;
must have first grade certificates. J.
NJ. Stephens, sec'y, Ulysses, Neb.
Must have first grade certificates"
SALARY $50 per month";
This is about what a manual laborer
would earn. 1t represents $3.50 a
week for about thirty-six weeks. The
salary offered for these holders Of
first grade certificates would amount
to $500 a year. This is slightly over
81 day for every day in the year.
And Nebraska, the state that boasts
of the smallest percentage of Hitter
acy, offers the muniicent wage of $50
month to holders of first grade GER
tificates!
More shame upon Nebraska!
To be the holder Of a first grade
certificate and competent to teach in
any one of the grades above enum-
Grated means longer term of appren-
ticeship than is required by any Of
the skilled trades. The teacher of
an eighth or ninth grade must work
long hours after school is dismissed
examining papers, preparing for the
next days lessons, marking examina
lions and attending to the thousand
and one details of the work now re
quired by our public school system
1t is hard work, mentally and phys
ically. The average teacher works
from ten to fifteen hours day, Sun
days alone excepted. And for work
like this Ulysses, Nebraska, offers $50
month.
The union printer who worked as
many hours as the average school
teacher above the eighth grade would
earn upwards of $40 a week if job
man, and upwards of $26 If machine
man. And he would have work the
year around instead of eight months
in the year.
The union bricklayer who worked
ten hours day for eight months in
the year would receive over 1900, OF
three times as much as the yearly
average of the Ulysses school teacher
The union carpenter who worked ten
hours a day for eight months in the
year would make more than three
times as much as the Ulysses school
teacher.
Why do the skilled craftsmen draw
so much better wages than the school
teachers? The answer is very easy
The skilled craftsmen are organized
and they deal collectively with en-
ployers. The school teachers, seem
ingly, believe they are too far up in
the social scale to do such plebean
thing as organize, and when they meet
in associations they discuss the which.
ness of the whence instead of getting
together and framing up plans where
by they can demand better wages and
then enforce the demands.
The public school teachers of Okla.
homa "got WISE early in the game.
The have organized and are affiliated
with the Farmers Union and the
American Federation of Labor, and de
spite the opposition of the authorities
and of the union haters, they main
tanned their organization and have Sc
cured handsome increase in wages
The public school teachers of. this
republic should be the best paid pub
lie servants in the republic. Upon
them is the responsibility, in large
measure, for the future of the coun
| try.
Ulysses, Nebraska, wants some
teachers there. They must have first
grade certificates.
The salary is $50 month.