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Show 25 has led him to conclude that administrative pressure to caused the rolls to swell. superintendents insisted tion of As employment. He states: that job a the reason administrators the NEA applicants join 1927."12 ship while the AFT might lead one welfare and began to condi was so Yet, in spite of administrative regain some not grow in member- of its lost to conclude that teat hers became security and less interested in This ground. more interested in being "professional." 1934, the NEA Executive Committee created the Division of Teacher Welfare with the idea being that the committee " ... public the need for adequate salaries, improved reasonable retirement allowances, and freedom to ever the reasons for drawn into the NEA tenure who felt when full they had They began l3Willard p. E. There was were not never been began talking about not much militant talk until economic recovery was properly not a after reality for teachers rewarded in the first place. time.14 The labor movement 490. Givens, "Promoting the Welfare of Teachers," Utah Education Review 30 14Natt What- during this period. to raise their voices at this l2Ibid., to the regulations, doing this, great numbers of teachers unity and sacrifice. war interpret teach."13 When World War II came, teachers like others, the a membership join the NEA to during the Great Depression the NEA did pressure, as It has been claimed that pressured teachers that the union would not grow. In in 1920, many school "Beq inn inq result of this pressure, AFT declined from 10,000 to 3,500 in join the NEA (December 1936): 117. B. Burbank, Emerging Role of Educators (Atlantic ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 063 656, 1971). City: |
