Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-10-14
Contest Over Chicago
Grievances
azing ely Bitter
Federation cf Labor Cham npions sldsS
81 the indy City School 81
1eachers.

Chicago, The American Eeder
alton Of Labor Id ke u last al III Ii "
1igit iii behalf Of the Chicago union
which oppose the ChIcago Teach herss
Federation are today preparing their
appeal from the tenn porary injunct lon
from CARRYING out the now famous
cline to leave the federal ion, ana
compelling an applicants for positions
TO sign q pledge that they vii not
become members Of any similar oz-
ganization.
or course, ii the higher court
holds the Injunction, making II per
Inanent, the matter will drop there
with glowing victory for 0rganized
labor. however the higher court
decides In favor OF the Loeb rule, the
entire matter will intimately 20 de-
Icided at the polls. IA
Members Of the board Of education
are appointed by the mayor. hea
continues In ONCE men and women
openly antagonistic TO the teachers
union, labor has threatened to- elect
a mayor who will sbe favorable TO the
union (. Ks s
Miss fargaret Haley, head of the
union, openly charges that big busis
ness ig back OF the fight, on the fed
:syation, which comprises perhaps
ofle-han OF the {, 900 Chicago school
teachers. Important Chicago inter
ests hold. under very favorable terms
school lands Hi the heart OF Ghicago's
business district. Under D. 99-year
lease they pay nominal rental on I:
valuation much smaller than that
placed on lands held In title OF pri-
vate individuals, in some instances
directly adjoining the school owned
land.
The union school teachers, shortly
after organization. moved for higher
salaries When told iia money was
available, they pointed TO low rentals
paid for school lands and To- the fact
that many large corporations were
7undertaxed.
Collect the proper rentals and
taxes and the money viii be avail
able they said.
They did more. They went before
the legislature and the tax boards.
They agftated at public meetings.
They even went to States IA Asstorney
Hoyne who is now considering alleg
ed facts which the union leaders
want put before the grand jury.
The fight was further complicated
by the religious issue, always a factor
in the politics Of Chicago. Factions
appeared In the schools ami ti-union
against union teachers.
The anti-unlon majority on the 4
school board struck hard and quick.
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 pledges
We're asked that they never would
join, fatly refused to sign.
The teachers had won a salary Id
crease, but it was administered BY
the board. Sign pleSge to aban-
don the union or no salary increase, a
was the dictuIn. al gain the courts
we're appealed to. Again deadlock
Enemies OF the Federation said
The union has no place IN the
schools. It has disorganized the en-.
III q ilJ
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 entanger
ed.
81 Union leaders Id and out of the
schools met this with denials aAd by
counter charges that the fight against
tn union teachers had been engin-
eered by corporation lawyers and
uIlion-b baiters who had becorss alarm
ed BY the disclosures made BY union
officials of tax dodgers and deals in
school land leases and contracts.
declare that q way has been found
II fact. created one may say where
by Germany's food supply win be nain
tanned during the duration of war
regardless Of the length 81 time,
While they admit that the former
methods Of wastage and failure to
cultivate all the available lands
would n result in q food shortage, tIey
say chat all available tracts of land
Y. are now under cultivation and that
waste has been reduced to to- mini
mum Editor. s s N