New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-29
TEACHERS DISCUSS PAY
Board OF Education Committee
Gives Each Side an Hour.
SAME WORK SAME SALARY"
Men Meet Argument of Women
with Claim That They Lose
More Time from Duties.

The hieh school committee e the Board
Of Education sat late last night TO listen
10 a twohour debate between representa-
tives q the Association of Men Teachers
and Principals and those rom the Inter
borough Woman Teachers Association n
the salary question The first hour was
granted TO the women ny Cornelius Su!li-
van. chairman = the committee 70 show
that salaries should be- based on the sex
OF the classes taught and not on the sex
OF those doing the teaching. The men had
the second hour 10 prove that this was all
wrong.
Tie alta * was led py C-ace g.. SRA han.
prcsiden, OF the voman's association sne
declared that the women did not mean to
compromise IN the question, but mat the!
vcUlG not insist that salaries siou'd M
uniform in the high school grades She
said that the women believed more should
he paid these teaching mixed CLASSES. or
bcys' classes, than To tnose teaching on,
girls. aud that the sye-cm Of co.educatou
should be extended.
me Toi0cu therefore agree with every
thing your committee has announced II
would recommend 20 he Board Of Educa-
ton" she added except in the vital
point. and that is that women doing the
same work as men should receive the same
pay"
Lena Gauo. q teacher IN the NaGsT orth
High school said the women were there
10 ask tho committee 20 reconsider the re
port IL bad determined 10 present 20 the
board i'm So Ear a. II recommended the
continuation Of the present discriminatory
salary scale Tor the sexes. and DO away
with the feeling Of bitterness and unrest
among the women.
Kate Turner. az the Erasmus Hall High
school. said she believed IN evolution, and
that the world was getting lovelie- every
dav. she declared l.st boys and girls we're
human beings. and that they should not be
subjected 10 FIVE hours DAY of feminine
algebra. French and English. but should
have mixture OF masculine ALGEBRA ahG
things. uree- "a rcaducational system. TINS
could be obtained. she thought. only Il men
and women teachers received the same pay.
Or. William +. Felter, principal OF inc
Girls High School in Brooklyn, declared
that women were not capable Of the saHe
amount ~ work ss men. He said ihat GUY
ing his nine years a. principal nen hau
baen absent from nis school total or Only
fifteen DAYS. whilc the city had lost me
time If dftv-one women for from ten days
10 two weeks each, and Of nineteen women
; for TWO entire terms.
therefore" ne declared, Ito put women
on the same salary scale - the men Vouio
be- ACTUALLY 20 pay them more IN the sun
total. for the city does not get the actual
time out Of them. And they also are not a.
dependable a. men. Why. in my physics
department. one Of tie women went TO an
insane asylum. another broke down and
third got married. 80 such things az THESE
happen among the men. A. least one-thiro
NJ the teachers IN nv school should be men
h,- can, get even p" Per cent. owing 70
Inadequate salaries
Holm H. peubigh principal Of the Morris
High school. said men would be driven GU
Of the schools II their work should be pu'
on a plane with women work throug'
equslizing the salaries.
Instead Of fewer men. more men arr
reeded in the schools he said Men ar
needed in the girls schools as we'll as n
lie bows SCHOOLS 20 curb no emotions o
the girls
John 7, Tildsley. principal # he De wiz
clinton fTlsn school. thought tfe girls wer
entitled 10 the Influence Of men teachers
md that the only way - keep them was .
ascertain the salary necessary 70 attrac
rre best possibIe mon. and then raise m
won1en's salaries 20 this standard instea'
Of lowering tho men 90 tho womon's stand
ard
The whole question ot The salary SEIZED
lie, viii 10 brought up in rho fHll boar
meeting this afterncon.