New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-05-19
Insists
Frayne Get Off
School Council
Told He Is as Out of Place
Enforcing Lusk Loyalty
Act for Teachers as He'd
be in Kansas Court
Ordered In to Explain
Members Of New Bureau
Say Private Hearings
Will DO No One Injustice

organized labor started last night a
movement of protest against the pres
ence of Hugh Frayne, as representa-
tive of labor, on the Council on the
Qualifications of Teachers.
resolution was offered before the
regular meeting Of the Central Trades
and Labor Council Of Greater New
York at Beethoven Hall. calling on MIR.
ffayne to resign his position. The res
oiution was sdetrackcd and a substi
lutte offered which called upon Mr..
raNne TO appear before a special meet
ing OF the council next week to explain
his position.
1t was only The desire of the labor
men not to condemn brother without
nearing which led them TO accent the
substitute resolution. Feeling was
unanimous that no labor leader should
serve on the council. which is the en-.
'ofcement bureau of the Lusk act.
Betrayal Charged
Abraham Lefkowitz of the Teachers
Union, offered the resolution. which
rehearsed the history Of labor's oppo-
sltlon to TIE Lusk bill, and demanded
that Mr.. Frayne resign.
~ MS oINtpttIlCb Ol lNd( DOS1tlOn
ne has betrayed the noblest aspirations
of labor-unwittingly perhaps, but he
has done it," said Mr.. Lcfkowitz. "a
iat or man has no more right on that
council than he has to sit as Judge in
the Kansau Industrial Court. That
means industrial slavery, but there is
one thing worse than industrial slavery
and that is intellectual slavery, and
that is what we will have if teachers
are tcrrorized by a council like this.
Any person with a grudge against a
teacher, any child who is afraid of
being kept back, can lodge a complaint.
Inc teacher is not told who makes the
COMPLAINT, but the stain of having been
called tefore the council will remain
always"
Delegate Boyle, of the 1ronworkers'
Unlon,. opposed the resolution on the
ground that it was not giving a square
deal to Mr.. Frayne.
EITHER he should get out of that
committee. or get out of organized
labor he said, but we must not con-
denim any man without a hearing"
At the suggestion of the chairman.
John Sullivan, the substitute motion
was adopted, calling for special
meeting one week from last night. at
which Mr. Frayne will be invited to
appear
Hearings Defended
A defense of the private hearings
conducted in the council was issued
yesterday in formal statement by it's
members, who denied the parallel of
"star chamber proceedings.
The system Of private hearings, they
said, was established in the interest of
teachers against whom charges had
been made, it being the intention that
no person outside the council should
ever know that charges had been
made. Several of the statements made
after the recent hearing Of four teach
ers, the council said, did grave inius-
tice to the teachers and to the coun-
Gil
"The public should understand that
the teachers who come before the
council are not under charges and are
not being tried" the statement said.
1.-The position of school teacher I'M
der this law is in measure similar
to a candidate for membership in a
club. No charges are preferred, but
the committee on admissions attempts
to make careful scrutiny into the fit.
ness Of the candidate"
In the matter of patriotism and 10y
atty, around which some of Tuesdays
cases conferred. the council said:
"It is the conviction of the council
that the public school system should
be carried on primarily in the interests
Of the pupils, and that the parents
are entitled to have their children
taught by duly qualified teachers, both
as to their loyalty to the state and to
the federal government of this coun-
Try"
The statement was signed by Archi-
bald Z. Stevenson, Hugh Frayne, Olivia
and Condo Fallen.
The next meeting Of the council will
be on Tuesday.