The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1957-11-15

submitted sworn statements listing
expenditures of $3,O71,3OS. Demo-
cratic expenditures totaled $780,
OS1.
Appropriately enough, the head
of the finance drive of the Michi-
gan COP is the former president
of the Cadillac division of General
MICROSCOPE MEMO.
made it possible for the teachers to
come under Social Security.
The author of the MEA article of
September 20 in thesis number 6:
g. The author September g. also
states that the record of the AFT
has been vastly superior to the NEA.'
1--WE assume he meant MEA) in Sc
curing more adequate teachers sala-
ries.''
Come! Come! Now! Let's not pull
the old gag (Really a fallacy in rea-
soning that our ninth grade is now
studying) of lifting quotations out
of context. This is a case in which
half a loaf is loaded with arsenic.
What the writer of the article of
September 6, really said was: Gar
ticle p ga professional organization
serves its members by working I'M
equivocally for adequate compensa-
ton and satisfactory working condi-
tions. The record, the actual per-
Torrance, of the AFT (and he meant
just that is superior to the NEA land
he meant just that) when subjected
to this test
Anent the Helena Contract rhu-
barb: Helena teachers, when we
taught in that system, School District
Number 1, were required by the
Board of Education to retire at age
65.
Section 8 of the contract teachers
of that district were required to sign
read as follows:
(And on the table we have a Hell
ena contract from which to copy.)
"This contract is made upon the
condition and with the understanding
that when any Superintendent, prin-
cipal, or Teacher eve never knew
why principal was not capitalized)
shall reach the age of sixty-five (65)
years, his or her employment shall
provided, that anyone
hereafter employed who has not at
he time of employment reached the
lge of sixty-five 1851 years, but does
each such age during the year for
which employed, may serve for the
ntire school year in which such age
S reached"
We fail to understand just what
he author of the MEA article of
september 20 meant by asserting
hat the clause was not in Helena
ontracts. We think the Helena prin-
ipals signed the same type of con-
ract that we signed, and he was a S
rincipal there at that time. Surely
e read his teachers contracts.
Two men fell under that clause
lille we were in that system. :.
The Missoula schools also had an :
lentical clause in the contract, and
ne Superintendent, among others,
I'll under that clause in 1915. !,
1t was not until the Butte Teachers :
MON took the dismissal of Butte +
9achers at age 65, through the courts 6
lat the clause was considered in con- T
let with the laws of Montana. The Z
Use was reviewed in the Supreme +
curt in July 1850, and decided July "
,, 1850. Wellington D. Rankin and !.
lillian B. Freebourn attorneys rep =
senting the Butte teachers) argued =
e case orally for the APPELLANTS. Mr..
hief Justice Adair delivered the
pinion of the Court; Justices Bot
mly and Metcalf concurred.
The fact that the Butte Teachers
MON, The Anaconda Teachers I'm
n, the Montana Federation of
eachers, and the Montana AFL-CIO
s upon several occasions defended
ass-room teachers in the courts and
omoted legislation for a sound
acber-tenure law seems to have been
rgotten. That surely is not just
tier under the bridge! How volatile
the mind Of man!
But