Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07

grounds, started early today and by
the time play was called there was
close to a capacity crowd in the
seats.
Betting today favored the White
Sox, not only because the majority
OF Those present were wild-eyed Sox
farts-it being their home-but be-
cause lot of experts believe the Sox
have the better aggregation all
around.
CHICAGO, Oct, 6.-The American
Federation of Labor will make a
last ditch fight in behalf of the Chi
cago union school teachers. Those
influences which oppose the Chicago
Teacers federation are today prepar-
ing their appeal from the temper
airy injunction restraining the board
of education from carrying out the
now famous Leob rule expelling
teachers who decline to leave the fed
GRAFTON and compelling all applicants
for positions to sign pledge that
they will not become members of
any similar organization.
OF course, if the higher court up
holds the injunction, making it per-
manent, the matter will drop there,
with glowing victory for organized
labor, ii, however, the higher court
decides in favor of the Leob rule, the
f1ti IL al, L.. 4
cided at the polls.
Members of the board of education
are appointed by the mayor. If he
continues in office men and women
openly antagonistic to the teachers
union, labor has threatened to elect
a mayor who will be favorable TO the
union.
Miss Margaret Haley, head of the
union, openly charges that big bust
ness is back of the fight, on the fed
eration, which comprises perhaps
one-half Of the 5000 Chicago teachers.
important Chicago interests hold, I'M
der very favorable terms, school lands
n lhe heart of Chicago's business dis
trict. Under 90 yea. lease they
pay a nominal rental on valuation
much smaller than that placed on
lands held in title of private indi-
viduals, in some instances directly
adjoining the school owned lands.
The union school teachers, shortly
Attn organization, moved for higher
salaries. When told no money was
AVAILABLE, they pointed to low rent
ais paid for school landsa and 10
he fact that many large corporations
we're undertaxed
collect the proper rentals and tax
es and the money will be available"
they said.
They did more. They went before
he legislature and the tax boards.
they agitated at public meetings.
They even went to States Attorney
Hoyne who is now considering alleged
iacts 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
lions appeared in the schools-anti-.
union against union teachers.
The anti-union majority on the
school board struck quick and hard.
Leave the federation or leave the
Schools" was the order to the teach
ers. Some obeyed. Some stood pat.
Some, who had never belonged to the
federation, and really preferred not
to join the organization, when pledg-
es ware asked that they never would
Join, fatty refused to sign.
The teachers had won salary in
crease, but it was administered by the
board. "Sign a pledge to abandon
the union or no salary increase" was
the dictum. Again the courts were
appealed to. Again deadlock.
Enemies of the federation said "the
union has no place in the schools. 1t
has disorganized the entire system.
Teachers are no longer looking to the
school head for orders, but to the
union head. The teaching force is
divided into cliques, and the entire
school discipline is endangered"
Union leaders in and out of the
schools met this with denials and
by counter charges that the fight
against the union teachers hsd been
engineered by corporation lawyers
and union-baiters who had become
alarmed by the disclosures made by
union officials of tax dodgers and
deals in school leases and contracts.
Fathers and mothers and even the
children have been drawn into the
fight on one side or the other. There
is no such word as neutrality. And
the most unique labor war in the his
tory of the central west is in full
swing.