The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-13
TEACHERS WILL
GO in BODY to-
BOARD Meeting
Plan Fight for Action
on Teachers Councils

Charging that members Of
the board of education are de-
IiberateIy postponing action on
the Teachers Councils and
other important measures for
reasons of their own until after
election, Miss Margaret Haley
has instructed the members OF
the Teachers Federation to be
sure to be at $50 South Clark
Street, at a committee meeting
of the Board of Education at 4
O'Clock, Wednesday afternoon,
to insist upon immediate action.
When the recommendation Of
Superintendent McAndrew re-
quiring principals to meet with
teachers goes thru it will also
mean that notices of meetings
cannot be circulated to the
teachers by the Teachers Fed
Grafton, or any other body, Miss
Haley made clear to the meet
ing.
McAndrew at "5ig Biz" Dinner.
1t win mean that only notices o.
the superintendent sent thru the prin-
cipals can be brought before the
teachers in the schools.
Miss Haley charged that the super
intendent's speech at the chamber OF
commerce dinner at the LaSalIe Hotel
last week, where sat the president
and four members of the board of ed
ucation and the mayor in the person
of his representative, Francis X
Busch, shifted the fight on the, teach
ers' councils from the teachers on to
Ella Flagg Young.
"And we are perfectly willing ia
leave the fight where he has put it,
she added
Lauds Ella FIagg Young.
ELLA Flagg Young stands befor,
this country today as an educator
McAndrew has not yet made his repu.
tation as an educator In the words
of certain distinguished gentleman,
An irritator is not an educator This
remark brought applause from the
teachers that lasted for several min
utes
"Mr. McAndrew has shifted the
issue from the teachers shoulders ia
one able to bear it tho in her grave.
And we'll take this Ella Flagg
Young theory of education to the club
women who asked us for $40 for a
memorial for Mrs. Young and we will
say to them: DO they want brass,
do they want marble, or do they want
something that is going to live
ELLA Flagg Young said: The voice
Of authority or position not only must
not dominate the councils, but must
not be heard
Carry Fight to Legislature.
when we go before the legislature
in Springfield, we will say to those
gentlemen: DO you want to go back
to a system Of education that was
stamped failure by that great edu-
Gator, Ella Flagg Young, or are you
going to say she was not fit The
fight is no longer McAndrew against
the teachers, it is now McAndrew and
the board and the business interests
dominating the board, against Ella
Flagg Young"
Miss Haley then went into a detail
ed explanation of the real cause OF
the fight on the teachers. The order
has gone out to cut down public edu-
cation because it is costing too much.
There is a standing deficit and the
board of education is bankrupt.
This is a fierce attack upon you
If they break your resistance power it
will be easier to break the resistance
power Of all the teachers in the United
States.s There is only one way to
meet this issue and this it to get the
money from those who are keeping 1t
from the board of education, the
wealthy tax dodgers.
Some interesting facts will come
out in this fight before we are thru
We will expose certain gentlemen who
are being paid large salaries just to
protect the interests of these rich
tax dodgers. That is the reason why
we want this fight to be brought to a
showdown now and the board is put
ting it off until after the election"
Another mass meeting was authoriz-
ed for next week, full particulars as
to time and place to be given in a
notice to the teachers later.
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