The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1909-11-19

a nonresident gets your money?
Again, Mr.. Nelson, who is Mr..
Pendletons runnig mate, is at the pres
ent time. building barn with non
union help; with men who have been
| advertised as unfair in the columns of
The Labor Journal for several years.
Mr.. Union Man, what do you expect
to gain for yourself or your town by
voting for Pendeton and Nelson?
If either are elected it will perpetu-
ate the present administration; and if
the foregoing arraignment is not
enough to cause you to do your duty
and get you out to vote on December
4, we want to refresh your memory
about an incident which occurred last
spring, and which caused the citizens
of Everett to sit up and take notice
for it left them almost breathless 1t
was the discharging of the principals
of four of our principle schools be-
cause they asked for an increase in
I salary.
Finally, when the public would not
accept the silence of the board in the
matter, it attempted to justify its acts
by impertinently telling the public to
LAY down. it (the board was run
ming the schools and proposed to do it
in its own manner. And they did The
four principals We're discharged good
: and hard, and have been left with
one exception, he was reinstated at
lower salary to make a living as best
they could. They could not again teach
school because of the custom of school
districts not to employ teachers who
can not get recommendation from the
district in which they last taught.
Is this the Land of the Free and the
Home of the Brave?" Citizens of Ev-
erett discharged because they asked for
an increase in salary!
Again, Everett was handed a lemon
by this great and mighty board when
it sought for teachers to supply va
cancies. 1t imports the product every
time The home grown teacher is the
exception in our schools. as is also the
wares of our merchants when the board
decides to purchase supplies.
The schools of Everett are main
tanned by Everett money, and The
Journal believes every business man and
laboring man in this city wants Everett
material used, so far as is possible, in
their construction, maintenance and
management.
NIessrs. Hustled and Van Allsburg
have pledged themselves to representa-
tives of organized labor. if elected, to
use thir influence for the employment
of Everett's organized labor in the con
struction of Everett's schools. for the
purchase of wares from Everett's bust
ness men; and last, but not least, the
employment uf Everett's citizens, with
equal ability, in preference to others, as
instructors.
Mr.. Hustled is a practicing attorney,
a college graduate, and receives thou
sands of dollars per year from some
of our largest institutions to advise
them how to conduct their business.
Don't you think him competent to act
as school director for Everett?
Prof. Van Allsburg for four years
principal of the Monroe school on River
side. and principal one year at the
Washington school, in the northern
part of the city known as one of the
most thorough and up-to-date school
men in this city, is aspiring for the
position of school director because he
is not in favor OF perpetuating the poll
cies OF the present board. He was not
discharged, but resigned, because he be-
leyed the present board to be governed
bv prejudice rather than Judgment.
The board has not had practical
school man on its membership for sew
eral years, and probably to this fact is
due its many errors.
The Lnbor Journal believes it's read
erse will do their duty and turn out
Saturday, December 4, and vote for Ev
eretts advancement rather than for a
coterie of incompetents who are madly
striving to fasten their reign of folly
upon one of the most prosperous young
cities in the world. where the growth
is so remarkable as to attract nation
wide attention, where our schools should
be the best to keep pace with the peo-
pie who maintain them. Therefore let
us vote for new men, but old residents
of Everett, to represent us ON the school
board and say farewell to folly.