Agnes Clohesy, a teachers union officer told the Tribune on Nov. 4, 1931, "There are cases where teachers, until they received their September pay last week, had borrowed all they could, had no money for carfare, and were stinting themselves on their food."
The Tribune calculated that by the end of the year the board of education would owe $9,736,000 in overdue salaries to teachers and other employees with no prospects of getting the money.
One new teacher was "living on graham crackers and milk" A year later, one said that she had been unable to make mortgage payments and was on the verge of losing her house: "I am not getting younger, and I have always hated the thoughts of the poorhouse." Even one teacher's child had died because of want of medical attention because of lack of money.
--DaCoot
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