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was so low that in that first year of my teaching experience

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I had to stay with my parents because I could not afford

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otherwise.

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Collective bargaining would perhaps have improved

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the teaching situation in Baltimore City much sooner than

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it has been. So I have mixed emotions about this situation

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we now face in the Convention, but I hope you understand

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the strong feelings that the proponents of the collective

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bargaining measure have and the great step they are taking

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today to help save this Constitution.

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I am not sure at this time that what we have

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gained is not a Pyrrhic victory, but that will only be

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brought to bear come May 14.

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As a history teacher I find some self satisfactio

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and some answers by searching in history and I am sure that

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Benjamin Franklin on the last day of the Federal Convention

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of 1787 must have had to do a lot of soul searching on that

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occasion.

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I find some assistance in his words and so I

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would like to close with a portion of the address Benjamin

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Franklin had written but was too old and feeble to deliver