Word: underpaid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...abiding citizens want an efficient police force. All thoughtful people realize that a police force cannot be efficient if underpaid and overworked. If this were the issue at hand, the public would agree absolutely with the demands of the policemen, who assert with reason that they are underpaid and overworked. But these policemen were not alone satisfied in bettering their condition. They have opposed local police force rules by affiliating with the American Federation of Labor. In so doing the strikers did not realize the great responsibility of their position nor did they regard the laws of their department governing...
...movement claims for its foundation the following facts: first, the teaching profession is notoriously underpaid. The life of the late Carleton Parker offers a classic example of the way an adequate salary will increase the productivity of a teacher. Second, the wretchedly weak administration of Boards of Education render good pedagogy almost impossible. However this concerns primarily the public school system and does not touch Harvard...
...good to learn that the cause of underpaid college instructors has finally received recognition from one university at least. The raise in the salaries of instructors and assistant professors, which has just been announced-at Yale University, is a tardy compensation for the great increase in living expenses that has occurred during the last few years. Though the action is belated indeed, yet it is a pioneer movement among educational institutions in this respect...
...come to them. They have served as the melting-pot for the Americanization of our large foreign population. In the past they have had teachers of a very high grade of intelligence and education. But conditions have changed. The teaching profession has become one of the most desperately underpaid occupations in the community. Last year in Massachusetts there were 1800 teachers who received not over $550 in wages. It is proposed to ask the Legislature to force a minimum wage of $750 for teachers in the state. But that is absolutely inadequate if the teaching profession is to attract...