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Box 2

 Container

Contains 137 Results:

An Impartial Trial Examiner holding Levitt Reports runs up steps labeled Witch Hunt Teacher Firings towards a star reading, Judgeship

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 54
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Drawings depicting issues facing teachers and teachers' unions including anti-Communist struggles, and issues of employment, pay, facilities, and government aid to schools.

Dates: 1900-1962

Man in suit and spectacles offers teachers choice between six and a half dozen, however on the matter of increasing the teaching load to 30 periods for special subjects, he offers the teachers orders

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 55
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Drawings depicting issues facing teachers and teachers' unions including anti-Communist struggles, and issues of employment, pay, facilities, and government aid to schools.

Dates: 1900-1962

At Parents Night, Principal tells parents how their children are taught freedoms of speech and press in the school, however, during school, the same principal is shown censoring the student press

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 56
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Drawings depicting issues facing teachers and teachers' unions including anti-Communist struggles, and issues of employment, pay, facilities, and government aid to schools.

Dates: 1900-1962

A man in a graduation cap and a tie stands naked in a barrel reading, The Dignity of the Profession while floating in clouds labeled cost of living, rent rises, price rises and inflation

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 57
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Drawings depicting issues facing teachers and teachers' unions including anti-Communist struggles, and issues of employment, pay, facilities, and government aid to schools.

Dates: 1900-1962

No Coercion?, 1951

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 58
Scope and Contents

June 16, 1951. The Board of Education bureaucrat, armed with the weapon of a charge of insubordination, offers the teacher the opportunity to "volunteer" for extracurricular activities.

Dates: 1951

A Happy Summer to All, 1954

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 59
Scope and Contents

June 26, 1954. A teacher shuts his "unfinished" file drawer on topics such as, "New School Building" "pensions", "pay raise" etc

Dates: 1954

The Unequal Match, 1951

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents

September 08, 1951. A large boxer with the words "Tax increases" and "Continuing Price Rises" written on his chest dwarfs much smaller boxer on whom a tag from his shorts is labeled, "Piddling Raise for Teachers."

Dates: 1951

How to Solve Problems, 1950

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 61
Scope and Contents

February 25, 1950. A Board of Education official tries to close a trunk containing the evils of old buildings, overcrowded schools, teacher shortages, and "25-5 For All" while flaunting the solution of crying "Red! Red! Red!" He points at a fish skeleton around which the word "RED!" is written three times

Dates: 1950

Back-Breaking Load, 1951

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 62
Scope and Contents

May 26, 1951. A man representing Teacher morale, carries an extremely large man carrying a briefcase labeled, "Extra-Curricular Activities Decision." The uncompensated extracurricular activities that Education officials seek to foist on teachers are depicted here as combined with inadequate pay, overcrowded classes, dilapidated buildings, the Timone Resolution and its concomitant witch hunts and repression to produce sinking teacher morale.

Dates: 1951

Two hobos read are prompted to read a casting call for a new production called The Informer Looking for top stoolpigeon roles, sin-singers, canaries., 1954

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 63
Scope and Contents

September 25, 1954. While the Board of Education casts its net for informers who will at stool pigeons and lackeys, two unemployed passers-by turn thumbs down with the statement, "Not for us pal, we have our pride."

Dates: 1954