Box 2
Contains 137 Results:
A little girl talks to Santa Claus asking and please bring Daddy a raise so he can stay home and play with me instead of going to work as a Santa Claus in Gimbals, and [On back is 1705/12-2]
Drawings depicting issues facing teachers and teachers' unions including anti-Communist struggles, and issues of employment, pay, facilities, and government aid to schools.
Big business with arms orders and money in his pocket, in addition to 111% rise in real personal income, sits on inflation which is carried on the back of workers.
Drawings depicting issues facing teachers and teachers' unions including anti-Communist struggles, and issues of employment, pay, facilities, and government aid to schools.
At Least Its a Step Forward, 1952
April 05, 1952. The "staff relations plan", a noose around the neck of the worker, pulls him off the edge of a cliff onto sharpened spikes of "recognized " only, no "policy" matters, no salary matters, no pensions discussed, the superintendent decides, the Board rules, we'll arbitrate if the Board feels like it". [Penciled at the bottom "At lease it's a step forward"] [On the back is 6389/4-4]
A Program for All Teachers, 1952
May 03, 1952. The very large hand of Samuel Greenfield, Board member of the Teacher's Union, points to a teachers retirement system document that reads "retirement with security and dignity, program of refo[rm]" [In the border "For all teachers"]. He was a recognized expert on matters of pensions and finances. At a time when the Teacher's Retirement System was mired in mismanagement, Greenfield proposed reforms that would guarantee teachers "retirement with security and dignity."
A jack-in-the-box overcrowding bursts the roof off a public school building that is coming apart at the walls with the too many students coming out of windows and doors., 1952
October 04, 1952.
Help for the mountain climber, 1953
December 12, 1953. The hand of "salary raise" is held out to a worker struggling to climb above "food, medical services, rent, clothing, taxes, and the cost of living".
The Only Language They Understand, 1953
March 07, 1953. Very large worker holds a sign that reads "United Teachers salary campaign. All organizations back one bill" over the capitol and a legislator in Albany. Legislators in Albany will only be impressed and moved to action by a United Teachers Salary Campaign in which all teacher organizations back the same piece of legislation.
Supervisor Into Inquisitor, 1952
March 15, 1952. Large box leaning over a desk toward an employee (just off frame). A paper in the waste basket reads "Civil Service Law". No one may be questioned concerning his political beliefs or affiliations or opinions" The "creepy" figure (literally) used by Bernard Kassoy to represent the school inquisitor is shown here throwing the Civil Service Law guarantees of freedom of beliefs and association into the waste basket.
The Most Unkindest Cut of All, 1952
January 19, 1952. "The sub", the "most vulnerable member of the teaching staff of all," is holding on to the end of a rope over "unemployment" and is about to be cut off and allowed to fall on "Feb. 1" by large scissors. (See "The Lament of the Substitute" at the end of this year's selection of cartoons).
Operation Meat Grinder, 1954
January 30, 1954. A pay check goes through the grinder of "1954 costs" and comes out in tiny bits of "purchasing power". [on the bottom border is penciled 3567/4-4]