The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-06
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CHICAGO. Oct. S.--Thc American
Federation Of Labor will make 'As'
ditch fight in behalf OF the Sa'saf'
| union Of school teachers. These ~
uueuces which oppose the Chisas'
Teachers Federation are today prs-
pairing their appeal from the tempo.
rery Injunction restraining the Board
Of Education from carrying ont ire
now famous Loeb rule expci'he
teachers who decline to leave the
federation, and compelling all arpi'
cants for positions to sign a Pieasf
that they will not become memeers
OF any similar organization.
Members OF the Board of Edaea-
ton are appointed by the MAYER. y
he continues In office men and wo~
men openly antagonistic to the teach
ere union. labor has threatened 10
elect mayor who with infayoraole
to the union.
Miss Margaret Haley. head OF the
union, openly charges that big busi-
ness is back OF the fight, on the
federation. which comprises PERHAPS
one-half OF the s,eoe Chicago
school teachers. Important Ca'cage
interests hold. under very favorable
terms. school lands in the heart oi
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Chicago's business district. Under
99-year lease they pay nominal
rental on valuation much smalieF
than that placed on lands held In
title of private individuals, IN some
instances directly adjoining the
school owned lands.
The union school teachers, sacrtly
after organization. moved for high
e. salaries. When told no money
was available, they pointed 20 tie
low rentals paid for school lands, ard
to the fact that many large corpora
tions We're undcrtaxed.
collect tac proper rentals and
,cxes and the money will be a9aila-
ble,'' they said.
They did more. They went before
the legislature and The tax boards.
They agitated al public meetings
They even went 10 States Attorney
Hoyne who is now considering 81
legged facts which the union leaders
want put before the grand jury.
The fight was further complicated
by the religious issue, always fac
Tor in the politics of Chicago. Fac
tons appeared in the schools anti
union against anion teachers.
The anti-uaion majority on the
school board struck quick and hard.
Leave the federation or leave The
schools. was the order TO the teach
srs. Some obeyed. some stood pat
Some who had never belonged to the
federation. and really preferred fot
to join the organization, when plcd-
ges were asked that they never
would join. flatly refused to sign.
The teachers had won a salary in
crease, but it was administered By
the board. Sign a pledge to aban-
don the union or no salary increasc. =
vas the dictim. Again the courts
were appealed to. Again = deedlocl.
Enemies OF the federation said.
''rhc union has no place ia the
schools. II has disorganized the
ontire system. Teachers are no long
er looking to the school heaas saf
orders, but 10 the rnion head Thc
teaching force is divided into cliquoe.
nd the entire school dieciplue is
endangered.
Union leaders in and out Of the
schools met this with denials aud BE-
counter charges that the nsh.
against the union teachers had been
engineered hy corporation lawyers
and union-baiters who had become
alarmed by the disclosures made hs
union officials Of tax dodgers an6
deals In school land leases anl CONS
tractors.
Fathers and motaers and evu
children have been drawn lls0 the
fight CA one side or tse othcg rhasa
is 30 sgch word as neutrality And
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