New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-07
Two Hundred Meet to Pro
test Against Dropping
of AZ in Chicago.
ATTACK BY BOARD
HEAD Is ANSWERED
y. Z. A. Members Hear Mrs.
Young, Mrs. Fursman and
Prof. Dewey Speak.

The alliance OF teachers with union
labor organizations was advocated last
night at meeting of members of the
y. f. A. in the High School Of Com
merce.
Charles b. Stillman, Of Chicago. pre-
sided. and addresses were made by Mrs
Ella Flagg Young, former Superintcnd-
ent Of Schools in Chicago; George
Dewey, professor of philosophy at Co
lumbia. and Mrs Ida /. Fursman, one
Of the forty-two Chicago teachers re-
Gently discharged after joining the
Teachers Federation.
Fight for Freedom"
Despite the efforts TO Kill the fed
Grafton in Chicago, we now have a
great group Of teachers fighting for
freedom. and the movement Is spread
ing to many other cities said Mr. Still-
man. I'VE do not stand for protection
of incompetent teachers, and we never
will"
# am Exhibit No. l." Mrs. Fursman
introduced herself. "You may have
heard that the Chicago teachers are
trying 70 get something for themselves.
We absolutely banded ourselves to,
gether with other working men and
women. We have some teachers who
arc required to speak seven languages
and who are paid not more than $500 a
year. Unskillcd labor is being paid far
in advance of tho teacher.
I'VE teachers found that five big cor
porations in Chicago were not paying
proper taxes. We made them paw 81
900, 900 extra. and ever since have had
their enmitv. You needn't be sorry for
the Chicago teachers. We have more
than 81 100000 in our reserve fund
Mrs. Young was greeted with much
applause. She said:
81 believe that the Chicago teachers
allied with the federation are the best
teachers in the country
Tells How TO Get Members.
Mrs. Young declared that there was
too much belief in the theory expressed
by Mr.. Loeb that teachers, stand ne on
their own merits. could so to members
Of a Board Of Education and get favors
they desired. Just teach the Young
girl teachers just what the federation
is irving 10 do" she said, and you
can bring them right into the fedora
zion"
Professor Dewey said he welcomed
the Federation as an organization that
should give teachers the backbone 70
do the right thing. IAN army OF
teachers is more important than an
army Of soldiers" he said.
Suppose a person let US say with
the initials Of J. l. should suddenly
arise and say that all the generals and
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should be dismissed without reason
What would the nation do? Yet
q J. l.. has done this TO the teachers
army in Chicago. Teachers should not
be obliged 20 consider themselves the
hired employees of any body of men
A series Of eight resolutions oppos-
ing the control of teachers by LAY
boards was adopted.
Scores Teachers Alliances.
4 bitter attack on the alliance OF
teachers with the American Federation
OF Labor by Jacob Loeb. president Of
the Chicago Board Of Education. caused
4 dramatic scene yesterday morning at
meeting Of the Department o. School
Administration. one Of the fifteen sec
tions Of the y. +. 4.
Trade unionism in schools makes tol
divided allegiance, Mr.. Loeb declared
breeds suspicion and discomfort. haltS
efficiency and interferes with discipline
In the public schools trade union IS
intolerable. for teaching is not trade
but n profession, and one OF the nobles'
Of them.
Says Children Suffer.
whether the teacher submits 10 the
union or not" ne continued, the schoo
children suffer. The mind and soul oi
the school child are 10 be made inc
plavthing. the shuttlecock Of a small
ambitious and designing coterie, ollnd-
ed TO everything but self by a lust ioi
power and dominance.
Mr.. Loeb said he believed the inci-
vidual teachers enthusiasm for heI
work would be poisoned by the
union. She would come 20 believe
that her capacity would not win hei
recognition and that she was the VIC
tim Of her employer. the Board Of Edu-
cation. which was trying 70 crush her
Her noble and sacred calling would be-
come sordid. salary grabbing occupa'
ton.
Mrs. Young, abandoning the subject
she had prepared for the meeting
talked openly on the conditions Whicn
had led the Chicago teachers to revolt
The teachers. she said. had organized
because they had become workers IN a
treadmill and had not the freedom "a
express their thoughts She described
the vain attempts OF the chicago
teachers TO obtain a hearing before the
members OF the board.
After years OF waiting she said