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Box 2

 Container

Contains 137 Results:

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
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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

A woman in a crown with a necklace dangling money explains why teachers must be laid off and then new teachers rehired each year

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 64
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

Ideal Teacher

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 65
Scope and Contents

A man's mouth is tied up, his ears blocked and opaque sunglasses cover his eyes

Dates: 1900-1962

A mouse with a gavel announces from his hole, The motion is passed No comment, please Meeting adjourned! A moment later, a foot reading, Public Protest shoos the mouse back in his hole

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 66
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