Montana labor news., 1937-07-15
Board Of Education
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yearly contract and Ruth Reardon
| seconded this motion. However, the
other members of the board didn't
want to have Mr.. Keeney put back
SO this motion was killed. On both
of these motions there was an aye
and nay vote. Becoming somewhat
desperate over the deliberate inten-
ton of the rest of the members to
conceal the real reason for Keeney's S
dismissal, Miss Reardon moved that
Keeney be given hearing before a
committee composed of the Cover
nor, Attorney General Freebourn
and Miss Ruth Reardon of the board.
A motion was made by Freebourn
which included that Keeney be Civ
en- written copy of the charges
that were made against him and al
lowed to appear with an attorney
and that the hearing take place with
in the Capitol building in the next
ten days. This motion was seconded
by Miss Reardon and again killed by
majority of the board members.
The secretary of the Board of
Education was interrupted at the
time that he had attempted to read
the minutes of the executive session
of April IL. He had barely begun to
read these minutes when he was in
terrupted by Mr.. Borton of Glasgow,
a member of the board who objected
to the reading of the minutes of the
executive session, claiming that they
were not public but private proceed
ings. Attorney General Freebourn
then objected that the minutes OF
the executive meeting of the Board
of Education were public property
and not private property of the
board. However, Governor Ayers
stepped into the matter and said that
he wanted members of the board tc
decide what they wanted, whereupor
Board Member Borton made mo-
tion that the minutes be suppressed
This motion of Mr.. Bortons was car
ried upon being put on an aye and
nay vote.
However this wasn't enough fol
the State Board of Education. They
had succeeded with the help o1
President Simmons in dischargine
Librarian Phillip o. Keeney appar-
emily for his activities in connection
with organized labor, and having
Inundated Professor Rowe by put
ting him on month to month basis
So now being either ashamed or hav-
ing done something wrong or at least
having done something that they
didn't want the people of the state
of Montana to find out, Mr.. Bortor
moved that all the proceedings OF
the executive meeting of April IL
be expunged from the records. At
torney General Freebourn objected
strenuously that they had no right
to destroy the records of the people
of Montana but however the motion
was put and carried by a majority
of the board and now the under
handed, despicable work that was
done to get rid of the two liberal
members of the University will new
er be known by the people of the
state.
The Montana Labor News is again
publishing the names of the Board
of Education. II should be remem-
bered however that Harry Freebourn
and Ruth Reardon stood by the peo-
pie Loyalty. The members of the
Board of Education are as follows:
Governor Roy E. Ayers, Attorney
General Harry Freebourn, and Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction,
Ruth Reardon; Mrs. MANAGE of Bir-
ney, Montana; George M. Gosman of
Dillon; Wallace Brennan of Missoula;
Emmett j. Riley of Helena; Lynn Lee
dom of Billings; c. D. Borton of
Glasgow; w. S. Davidson, of Boze-
man, and E. c. Carruth of Havre,
Montana.
The Board of Education has been
notified by Secretary of State Sam
w. Mitchell that the law is being
violated by them at the University
July IL, 1887
The Honorable Board of Education
of the State of Montana.
Attention: Hon. Miss Ruth Reardon
Secretary.
Greeting:
1t has come to my attention that
your honorable board is violating
the State Nepotism Law, in allowing
the business manager of the State
University at Missoula to hire his
own sister as Librarian. Of course
realize that man in the position
of business manager finds it hard to
live on salary of $313.13 per month
and really needs to supplement his
finances by putting his sister to work
at $125.00 per month. Then, again,
it is very hard for the President of
the University to find girls or ladies
who need job and would be willing
to work for such salary, but it
seems that your honorable board is
responsible for having our institu-
tons of learning conducted accord
ing to law.
1t seems to me, as state officer,
that public spirited people, like the