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TAKING TEACHERS' RIGHTS
WOULD HIT CHICAGO HARD
According to the warmest friends
Mayor Thompson has in the labor
unions, the street car men, Chicago
as a city will class up with the Pull
mans and the Ttoclcefellers if the city
Jjars the teachers from the right to
organize as a labor union.
The Union Leader, official journal
of the car men, says teachers are
workers, paid cheaply, regulated like
laborers with rules and restrictions.
It's a joke to call these teachers
"members of a profession" instead
of wage-workers, which they actually
are, officers of the car men hold. Be
sides the editorial is a special article
by Mary Eleanor Kramer, woman edi
tor of the paper, which says the fight
is all politics, organized labor accepts
the challenge and will fight to a fin
ish till the Loebs, Rothmans and
Steins no longer dare to publicly
"bully and browbeat" the teachers.
"If the teachers are not workers,
what are they?" is asked in the edi
torial. "They are subject to the same
penurious treatment and slave-driving
methods as other workers, and
are in as much need of organized ef
fort to protect and improve their con
ditions. They may be members of a
'profession,' but they must have food,
clothing, shelter and recreation the
same as the rest of us, and with all
their 'professional' attributes they are
generally recognized as among the
poorest paid of our citizens when the
requirements of the 'profession' are
considered.
"It would be a great stain upon
the good name of Chicago if the bare
majority of its school board, blind
with prejudice, lacking balance and
vindictive in the extreme, should be
permitted to suppress organization
among employes of the municipality,
an act wholly inconsistent with the
American spirit
"If this condition is to be estab
lished by the school board of Chicago,
then the battle to inject the Amer
ican spirit into that alien-policied in-
stitution cannot come too fast or too
strenuosly.
"If employes of the municipality
are to be denied the right of assem
blage, the right to discuss their af
fairs, the protest against oppressive
measures, to petition for their wel
fare, to seek co-operation of others in
righting their wrongs, then the mu
nicipality as an employer has placed
itself in exactly the same position as
a Pullman, a Rockefeller or any ty
rant" POST MAY TALK AT BIG MASS
MEETING WEDNESDAY
Lewis S. Post, ass't sec'y of labor,
may address the mass meeting at
the Auditorium Wednesday night at
which protest will be voiced against
the school trustees' vote to bar-teachers
holding membership in labor
unions.
Post will be in Chicago Tuesday.
If he can arrange to stay for the
meeting he is likely to break off some
chunks of information regarding the
local situation, for he was once a
Chicago school trustee.
Edw. N. Nockles has mailed letters
to all aldermen inviting them to be
present at the meeting that they may
learn facts which will aid them in
voting when the new school trustees
are put up to them for confirmation
next October by Mayor Thompson.
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HEALTH TIPS
To live well and die without fear,
the Chicago health department says:
Breathe deeply, eat temperately,
chew thoroughly, drink (water) copi
ously, bathe frequently, laugh heart
ily, clean teeth carefully, sleep regu
larly, exercise daily, serve willingly,
speak kindly, eliminate freely, play
and read much, think more and dare
to be yourself; cheerful, conscien
tious, brave.
Now that women have been wear
ing furs all summer they will prob
ably soon don the peek-a-boos for the
winter.
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