The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-11-18

Our Teacher Stool Pigeons

Our Teacher Stool Pigeons
Additional revelations of the contemplate in which
the Anaconda Copper Mining using the teachers in
city's public schools stool
pigeons has developed
The fact that the teachers used during the recent state
and county campaigns to nsdousy make Of the little chill
promote candidates. Dixon, Carlson
and others the companys republican icket already too
well known to need extensive comment
The fact that companys Industries not only
used the Teachers but had the brazen efroney to force
hundreds of little and older children parade the
downtown section of the city in the bitter cod to boost the
proposed subsidy Of $525ooo for the companys "American
pan under the camoufage Of school bond ssue also well
knoWn
But aside from using the schools for the spread Of its
curyy political and industrial propaganda the Anaconda COM
pany using the cis school system private detective
agency in support Of its niquitous "backs" system.
And here is how it is worked:
The teacher, with smile OF Judas her face, and in the
guse of making supplementary educational surveys inquiries
Of pupils their preferences for various magazines and
newspapers Of course since but few Of the pupils them
selves, only the elder students, subscribe
either magazines newspapers their preferences as
given the teacher naturally enoug the magazines and
newspapers their fathers subscribe for or purchase.
The list of magazines and mentioned by each
pupil is reigousiy noted by the teacher This list later finds
its way through school administration channels the "rung
card offices Of the Anaconda company and its affiliated min
The The fathers Of those children who
The Bulletin their preferred newspaper, the
Lberaor other radca publication their favorite
magazine "dangerous radicals" "red menaces
and are bIackIisted.
of thousands of in Butte being taxed
for the maintenance Of school system The great the over
wemng majority Of these taxpayers workngnen and
workingwomen fathers mothers of the children who
the schools Certainly these thousands of workingmen and
workngWomen object senuous being taxed for the MAIN
extensive of mining stooI-pgeons
guise of educators of their children Certainly these
good people and scratch in order to
dig the money for school object senuously to
expenditure Of their money in behalf Of system aimed to
deprive them Of the Of livelihood But this silent wrath
at the debauc Of our school system should take
If the evils to be corrected Merely swearing softly
self will work toward change; that
people affected be brought to the attention Of
the Anaconda companys hrelngs who compose the over
whelmng majority Of school board it is necessary that
fathers let the teachers Of their children
know in just what they think Of the
called educators, female, who think little Of the
instructors Of our YOUTH to debauch
themselves and their profession by performing the work OF
stool-pigeon.
We would suggest that every mother and faher-every
workinuan workingwoan who has children in school
closely question children events in the school
them such deviltry this latest OF the
the Anaconda comes to
light first opportunity to visit the school in ques-
on the law the teachers and the principals
and fathers then should supple
their visit the schools by making point to attend the
next session of school trustees, and there to tell
group alleged and who are trustees OF ou
chrens education vigorously earessy and so their mean
ing be plainly UNDERSTOOD just what their
For the benefit Of those and womenWomen mostly
who are paid teachers and stoolpgeons for
M who may not be quite clear as to the rea
character stoogeo want to say that after COD nae
made Man and animals and reptiles and pesferous insects
after He had created matter and filth the unnaneable
that used to fashion the soot-pigeons
mStooI-pqeonu synonomous with "contemp'' "oathng
the loWies sneakie person who would steal PEN
nes from the cup starving blind crppe has too much
respect himself and his contemplate profession to be
stool-pueo. The stoopigeon is neither flesh nor fowl no
good red ernq she unfortunately this contempti
BILE class has no particular gender) in class by himself
parahhated despised alike by those who use him an