The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-30

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earlier workingmen's organizations, it
had defended the cause of free
schools with unfagging zeal and un-
surpassed wisdom. In this champion
ship of the very foundations of de-
mocracy it has had and has no rival.
To be counted now among the men,
bers of this far-fung and powerful
brotherhood is both a challenge and
privilege.
GAS teacher and as represen-
tative Of teachers | wish to thank you
for the magnificent services Of the
past Even more earnestly urge you
to keep this record unbroken in the
dark and troublous years ahead,
knowing, however, before | address
you that such urging is scarcely nee
essary. For you to become Indifferent
or hostile to the cause of free educa
tion would be contrary to your nature.
You are as devoted to the public
school and the welfare of American
children as the members of our pro-
fession. 1t is for this reason that we
are bound together in the close fellow
ship of the American Federation of
Labor. Our interests and purposes
are the same.
Teachers Federation Is Growing
GAS member and president of the
American Federation of Teachers ]
beg your cooperation, your fraternal
criticism and counsel, during the cur
rent year. Due to many and diverse
causes the teachers of America are
losing their traditional fear of asso-
ciation with organized labor and are
beginning to look with hopeful eyes
to our Federation.
"Our deepest loyalty is to great
social faith which, developing through
the centuries, seems to have reached
it's fullest and most abiding express
sion of the North American contin-
ent.
GAS representatives of this faith we
believe that in most profound moral
and political sense all men are ere
ated equal; that the fundamental
purpose of society and institutions is
the enhancement of the worth, the
dignity, and the powers of individual
human beings; that every child, re-
gardess of ancestry or family cir
cumstances, is entitled to equal op-
portunty for growth, position, and
responsibility.
Just Reward for Useful Labor
Demanded
1--WE also believe that in the last
analysis the undistnguished rank and
file of mankind are the only depend
able judges and guardians of their
own welfare; that ordinary men and
women, farmers, mechanics, teachers,
and housewives, can and should rule
themselves; that the great liberties
Of thought, belief, speech, press, as
semblage and organization are the
essence of this process of govern
ment; that the inquiring, adventur-
Gus, and creative mind, trained in the
methods and spirit of science and de-
voted to the general welfare, is the
most precious resource of our coun-
try that useful labor justly rewarded
is the sacred right and duty Of all
men and women and the only solid
. foundation of human society.
, Class Rule Opposed
con the other hand, we reject the
doctrine Of classification, caste, and
legitimacy the doctrine that one class
of men is fated by God or nature to
rule over or grovel before another
that subservience in the presence of
arbitrary authority and power is a
civic virtue; that common people
should distrust their own mental proc
csses and always look to their social
betters' for guidance.
"Likewise, we reject the idea that
the individual is but pawn in achiev-
ing the ends of some divine and mys-
teal State whose nature surpasses his
understanding.
"In word VIC believe in a society
+ of free men and women, in d society
| as Abraham Lincoln phrased it, 'of
the people, by the people, and for the
people, This is our social faith. We
, have come to call it democracy With
out this faith we as a people would
t be spiritually impoverished and lost
without it our history as nation
: would lose its significance"
5 Already in such representative
: cities as Atlanta, Georgia, Parkers
burg, West Virginia, Cleveland anc
b. Springfield, Ohio, Anderson, Indiana
Chicago, Springfield and Bloomington
. Illinois, st. Paul. Minnesota and Butte
, Montana, the vast majority of the
{ public school teachers are in the Fed
|, Grafton.
In many sections Of the country
the time Is ripe for 4 vigorous ant
f carefully organized drive for mem