Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-10-07

that even the capitalistc curt was
compelled to rule against the edict of
the school board ~
The court decided that the states
attorney Of Cook county (Chicago)
had right to join in the teachers
suits on behalf of the people against
the school board The court also ruled
that if the pernicious school board
rule were enforced no teacher could
belong to any of the following organ
izations: The National Educational
Association, the Illinois State Teach.
ers' Association, the Chicago Teach
ers' Federation, the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, or the Chicago Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. This rule, the court
declared, is arbitrary, unreasonable,
oppressive, illegal, contrary to public
policy and void. 1t. declared that the
board of education cannot create a
monopoly by limiting the classes of
citizens as provided in this rule,
which it may employ or refuse to
employ.
Sleieht Of Hand Fails.
With this injunction in. force the
Chicago teachers now have the same
rights they had before the school
board passed the anti-labor rule.
The petty tools of big business in
the Offices of the board of education
tried to put one over" on the teach
ers even while the bill for the in
junction was being heard in court An
effort was made to send out pledges
to the $500 teachers, demanding that
they state whether they were men,
bers of the outlawed organizations,
before the Injunction could be secur-
ed. This attempt was promptly
squelched. In bringing the matter to
the attention of the court the attorney
for the teachers said:
For 80 years l have been practic-
ing law-not slight of hand. If, while
the court is hearing accounts and con-
sidering whether it is right or wrong
to send out these pledges, the Board
of Education is sending them out, so
when the court decides the latter it
will make no difference what that
decision it, because whether right Oh
wrong, the thing viii have been done,
then the board cannot be too severely
condemned.
'The administration of justice
should not be reduced to a mere
game of either chance or skill or
physical speed. If the humblest litig-
ant should, in the parlance of the
street, attempt to "beat the court to
it." he might encounter serious con
sequences. That governmental body |
should try such a trick is inconceiv- Z
able. That an educational board |
should do it is worse. That it should
adopt the moste Elective of education
II methods, tina tbs precept and ex-
ample, makes it worse still. Think
If the board of education, by it's ex-
lmple, teaching the children, the7citi-
ems of the next generation, to cir
;umvent the courts and law!" +,
School Board Lawyers Busy.
1t was declared that the school {
'oard was trying to amend its out
aw rule to make it apply only to
he teachers federation and not the
Their organizations. But this move {
7as forestalled by the courts injunc-
ion. The school board lawyers are {
ow planning to appeal to a higher
curt, where they hope to exert great F
r influence
That the Chicago teachers realize c
heir fight is the fight not only Of the
sachers of the land but of the entire P
'orking class is shown in the Fore
ord" in the first issue Of their eBul- r