The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-10-13


the streets looking for something to
do or beggings for aims" Now il these
statements were true then before the
Agency came there were empty school
rooms in proportion to the idle teach
ers No such condition ever existed.
What has really happened is the dis
placement of non-agency teachers by
agency teachers. There are just as
many idle teachers.
A Monstrous Combinati
We now see why the people do not
run the public schools. In full control
of our means of knowledge we have
individual and corporate ownership of
the journals that educate the public
school educators. coupled with school
supply and book concerns" and again
interlocked with a net work of LOB
getting" secret agencies which seek
to control every avenue of knowledge
and employment for the teachers and
sell the same ION commission" as
commodity upon the market.
The late A r. King, man of long
experience in school affairs, is quoted
as saying that 1.-The hardest trust we
have to fight is the teachers trust"
Properly speaking, he should have
said the educational trust" In truth
it is the most vicious of all combines
since it polutes the source of know
ledge and by secret methods CONNER
cializes education and the employment
of public educators.
The Teachers Agency Of Today-A
New Animal.
The Teachers Agency is of recent
origin. 1T came to fill a certain
need" says its promoters. That GER
tain need is a more safe, sane and
business-like method of selling en-
ployment to public educators. The
crude method of dealing direct with
school boards and city superintendent
does not mean this certain need"
We remember now. in a certain large
city, the old method broke down when
it was revealed that the teachers buy
ing direct, patronizing home enter
prise were paying as high as 25 per
cent of their yearly salary for their
jobs. This break down of the old no
doubt suggested 1.-The new system"
Any way. it is here. New as it is it
has attained a tremendous patronage
and power. Boosted by the great edu-
journals. and its real purpose
by the public educators. no
wonder it is taking the whole school
system. The IS separate agencies in
dictate that it is not yet past the
stage. But wait few
years longer and we will have one
trust fight.
It's Plan and Purpose.
The Teachers Agency Is an employ
rnent agency minus the publicity OF
the usual employment agency. It
buys and sells in secret. 1t is a
labor union minus the membership
rights and democratic features of the
union. 1t is a secret personal machine
and despotic. Dangerous
because of its secret and confidential
methods. Despotic because neither
its members or the public have any
voice in its management Its benefit
Charles are unknown. It's government
unseen. Its membership unaffiliated.
Only the small group of officials at
the head have any knowledge of its
registration list or its business
records. 1t lures" it's membership
into the meshes OF the prospects of a
job. The average teacher sees 1t as
"job-getter"-that is all. An idle
teacher suspecting that there is some
mysterious influence working against
her gets "a huch" to join an agency.
Some kind friend within recommends
her to the manager who sends the
confidential literature, registration
binds the teacher to pay to per cent
commission on the years salary. This
commission must be paid in advance
not less than one-third cash, balance
by notes, 80 and go days with per
cent interest. Every time the teach
err is moved from place to place this
commission Is due. II an increase
of salary is obtained 10 per cent of
that increase must be paid the agency.
II the teacher puts non-agency
job then the agency member must pay
the commission How can the con