The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-09
PARENTS UNION
COMING OUT OF
SCHOOL STRIKE
Permanent Results Are
Sought by Y. w. L.
By NAT KAPLAN.

Of Miss Mary +. Tobin, the principal,
has now been in progress for two.
days. The first day of the strike
started with an attempt by the Young
Workers League and the fAarents Com
mittee to guide the young pickets in
their endeavor to win the support Of
the children who were going to school
and scabbing on them.
Thus about 1880 a. m. small band
of the pickets met on an empty lot
in the vicinity Iof the school and dis
tributed banneis and orders for picket
duty to THEFT fellow strikers. A
butcher ownins shop adjoining the
lot determined to end this youthful
uprising and tent in q riot call for
the police patols. The scene which
followed this incident can easily be
imagined.
Fat Bills Chase Kids.
Big fat plicemen chasing little
tots over strets and empty lots, and
shouting "HeS gwan back to school,
before knoc your little block off,"
Young strikes sticking out their
tongues and s. SCOUTING back to the po-
licemen, "C'nbn, try and catch us,
you big stiff.
Finally, however, the bulky police
men were SUCCESSFUL in dispensing the
young strikers Their banners bear
ing such sloans as: "Down with
Miss Tobin" nd down with Cor
poral PUNISHMENT in the Public
Schools" werd trampled under foot
and torn by te policemen.
AS a result of the first onslaught
Mr.. Bernard Yell and Mrs. Ray Spell
ser, both me. bers of the Parents
committee, wke arrested on charges
of disorderly conduct. Two Of the
most active dild strrxers were also
arrested. ThI cases Of both Mr.. We'll
and Mrs. Splser will come up for
a hearing be1re the Municipal court
on WednesdaI while the two young
sters have alsady been railroaded to
the Juvenile detention Home.
The exact cures on the amount of
children on lrike cannot be deter
mined at thi time. The capitalist
press in the ty is running big scare
headlines in led ink, claiming that
600 childrenR are on strike. 1t is
pointed out b the Y. w. L. members
of the Conn tee that most of the
capitalist prs reports were written
in the home Mrs. We'll away from
the scene ofIattle and so are very
inaccurate. luring the course of
Monday modng's picket duty only
about % CHI strikers showed up.
The younSefs claim, however, that
after theirst battle was over and
the secondivision came to the school
(the shifsystem is in vogue in this
school) e ranks of the striking
youngste were swelled to the tune
of 800.
Y. W.. In Charge Of Meeting.
At A I'm. a mass meeting of the
child strbrs was held at 1103 South
LOOMS The Junior Section of
the Yog Workers League took
charge othe program and explained
the strikto the young participants.
A membship appeal was then made
for the dior section, as a result of
which 40of the children signifed
their wilgness to become members
of the ganization. There were
present out rs children at this
meeting, s of which were Cregier
school pills. While the children's
mass meng was in session vote
was take by the members of the
Parents nmittee on the advisa6ility
of contimg the strike. The major
ity of tlcommittee voted in favor
of contimg the strike. Yesterday
there WI no picketing in front Of
the scho according to the decision
of the ccnittee. The children were
told to 81 home for the day.
Paref Organization Coming.
The ccnitte will hold another ses-
sion toht in which the entire
4 matter / be again reviewed. The
arrest cMr. We'll and Mrs. Speis-
er will discussed, and the Young
Workerseague representatives will
bring ir preamble and constitution
: for the rmation of definite dues
/ paying srents' organization. Mr..
and MrWeil are especially opti-
mistic the possibilities of pa
: rents onization. 1t is pointed out
) that thgroup is practically the
| pioneer the attempt to launch de-
| finite wing class parents councils
: which be able to review the life
, of the ID in the school and make
decisioror the betterment of school
! conditie This, if nothing else,
: should Ike McAndrews, superinten-
: dent ofe Chicago schools, rest I'M
easy iDs official chair.