Montana labor news., 1937-07-15
Made Against Professor
Phillip o. Keeney, Librarian of
University of Montana, Ex-
plunged from the Record.
Sinister Hand of Corporation
Control in Evidence; Purity of
Universities Defiled; Public
Betrayed by Board of Educa-
ton.

Universities Defiled; Public
Betrayed by Board of Educa-
ton.
The sinister hand of corporation
control over the universities of the
state of Montana were clearly evil
dent at the meeting of the Board of
Education, held Monday, July 18th,
and the public of the state of Mon
tana is not to know the Vaccinations
that are going on in respect to the
higher institutions of learning.
The reactionary members of the
board decided that charges made
against Professor Phillip o. Keeney,
librarian of the University, by Presi-
dent Findlay Simmons of the Uni
versity should not be made public.
There "a be only nj Interpretation
of such despicable action and that is
President Simmons and the Board
of Education are ashamed Of the
charges made against Professor Kee-
ney or else the charges were lies;
otherwise why is the Board of Edu-
cation afraid to divulge the proceed
ings Of the executive session of the
Board of Education on April 18th.
The Board of Education met again
last Monday, July 18th, to consider
at the request of organized labor,
among other questions, the placing
of Professor Phillip o. Keeney back
to his rightful position and also the
placing of Professor Rowe on a
permanent tenure and taking him off
the month to month basis. The case
should be reviewed a little.
On April 18th, President Simmons
of the University submitted a list of
recommendations to the State Board
of Education and Notwithstanding
that Professor Keeney had been en-
ployed as librarian for a long time,
his name was left off the list sub
mitted to the board. This meant
that he was not to be reappointed.
Professor Rowe was penalized also.
He had been on permanent tenure
and was reduced to a month to
month basis. All of this happened
after both of these men had been
active in forming a Teachers Union
at the University. Organized labor
of the state of Montana was repulsed
at the meeting Of April 18th. They
wanted to be heard before the Board
of Education but were not allowed
to do so.
James Graham, president of the
Montana Federation of Labor, and
the Executive Board of the Fedora
ton of Labor and others have been
interested in this case, and have
waited anxiously for this meeting
that took place on Monday, July II.
A report Of what took place at this
meeting is fantastic indeed and
sounds more like guilty children try
ing to cover up something that they
have stolen. They are afraid that
the public is going to know the truth
of just how the universities are con-
Quoted and how most of the mem
bers of the Board of Education are
puppets of the financial and en-
p1oying interests. To lead off with
at the meeting last Monday, Attor-
ney General Freebourn, a member,
seeking to get some justice out OF
the Board of Education, made a mo-
ton that Professor Rowe be put on
a yearly contract and taken off the
month to month basis upon which
he was placed last April. This mo-
ton was seconded by Ruth Reardon,
State Superintendent of Public In
~struction. After the motion had been
put, it was killed by the other mem
bers of the board. There are eleven
members. 1t must be borne in mind
that Governor Roy Ayers, Attorney
General Harry Freebourn and Ruth
Reardon, Superintendent of Public
Instruction are three members of the
| Board of Education and then there
are eight appointive members, be-
sides. The labor organizations have
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