The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Teachers in
Chicago March
For Back Paw
TrOyanovsky Speaks On
Growth of Education
in the U.S.S.R.
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau


ficant events took place in Chicago
this weekend.
Alexander A. Troyanovsky, Soviet
Ambassador to the United States.
addressing one thousand people at
the Palmer House Friday night as
the guest of the Russian
Institute for Cultural Relations, told
Of the tremendous growth of edu-
cation in the Soviet Union where
in 1914 we had less than eight
million children in school, today we
have over 26 million"
The following morning, as the
Ambassador was entering the Board
Of Trade Building at LaSalle and
Jackson Streets a parade swung into
view of 5000 Chicago teachers and
pupils demonstrating for $4,000, 900
in back salaries owed school en-
ployes and protesting the wrecking
of the Chicago school system.
The march went through the Loop
past the money center" of Chicago,
led by John M Fewkes, self
appointed teachers dictator with
Billy Sunday prowess. Despite an
order by Fewkes that all banners
carried be mild and conform with
vague slogans he issued, militant
calls to action were carried by
many, Under large banner
marched members of the National
Student League.
"A fair for the world. Chiacgo
unfair to teachers" Teachers
N. R. A.-No Rights Anymore. . read
some of the banners while over a
screaming headline carried recently
by the Chicago Tribune reading
sixteen millions for school pay" was
the word "baloney."
Surely in these modern DAYS
country without education is con-
demned to extinction" said Troy
anovsky at the Palmer House as he
outlined the great cultural achieve
ments of the first and second Five
Year Plans. He said illiteracy was
wiped out to within 10 per cent. !
We have music everywhere. he
continued, Il cannot imagine a
factory or state farm in the Soviet
Union without its choral group. We
are concerned with making life
beautiful"
In the line of march the teachers
showed the privations of a salary
less year. Faces were peaked but
determined. Even more seriously
determined were the children and
the single children's band mustered
for the demonstration.
A leaflet issued to the teachers
by the rank and file teachers COM
mittee called on them to prepare
to strike for full back pay in cash. !
regular cash pay days; restoration
Of basic salary schedule and other
demands.
Referring to the Mayor, one of
the placards read: kelly asked for
time, Shall we give him Is years?p
After the banquet which pre-
ceded the reception to the Soviet
Ambassador Corporation Counsel
OBrien spoke in place of Mayor
Kelly, who was said to be out of
town.
A Working Glass Mayor"
Our Mayor, Your Excellency."
said O'Brien as he turned toward
Troyanoysky, lis q working class
Mayor" And the assemblage
laughed as O'Brien fastened on to
say that the Ambassador was well
come to this liberal city of Chi
cago, which has sprung from mud
to marble"
TroyanoVsky outlined the deter
mined struggle for peace on the
part of the Soviet Union and of
the trade possibilities with the us.
An attempt by Ukrainian White
Guards to demonstrate in front of
the Palmer House was hastily given
up because of the fear of Commu-
nists." A White Guardist who
threw fascist leaflets from the bal
cony of the ballroom at the close of
the gathering was thrown out bod
lily by Chicago workers who had
come to hear the spokesman of their
fatherland.
Among the speakers we're James
P. Goodrich, former Governor of
Indiana; Frank D. Chase, former
president of the Western Society of
Engineers; Prof. E. A. Ross, of Wis
consin University, and DR.. J. A.
Carlson, University of Chicago
scientist.
Mrs, Troyanoysky was present.
Behind the Ambassador hung a red
flag, with white hammer and sickle
and the Soviet star,