City, Stale Officials
Accused Of Forcing
Strikes Of Teachers
Educational Boards and Legisla
tures Charged With Compelling
Teachers To Force Show-down
On Wages Now.
Chicago, 111.—Charges that the
strike of Buffalo school teachers
was forced by the attitude of thfe
Buffalo School Board and the
New York State Legislature were
contained in the statement issued
by Irvin R. Kuenzli, Secretary
Treasurer of the American Fed
eration of Teachers.
Mr. Kuenzli cited thq situation
in Buffalo as a typical example
of Issues confronting teachers th
every part of the Nation, despite
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reluctance of teachers associated
with the American Federation-of
Labor to halt educational actfrir
ties. The teachers’ strike ip'
falo was not inaugurated by- tho
American Federation of L«b$r,
but drew from Mr. KiknzH, an
observation that conditions ' there
were only a reflection of the
lorry plight of American teach
;rs throughout the country.
“It is a deplorable fact in
American education that in many
rities and towns throughput,.the
country boards of education are
making it extremenly difficult for
the AFL to maintain its no
strike policy," he said.
“It also is a aad commentary
on American education that in
the richest nation in the world,
the working conditions of teachers
have fallen so low that to main
tain a no-strike policy 190 per
rent is almost impossible."
Discussing the general teacher
situation throughout the country,
Mr. Kuenzli said:
"While the teachers’ strike in
Buffalo was not authorized by I
the American Federation of Teach- J
era, our hearts go out to teachers
who face deplorable working con- j
ditions which force them to Vo- (
late national policy. They do this
>n!y as a last resort.
“Under such conditions as con
front them, the school adminstra
tions and boards of education are
responsible for the strike rather
than the teachers.
“It is time the boards of educa
tion adopt a no-strike pol'cy by
paying teachers decent wages so'
that they will not be compelled i
to strike.
“A primary responsibility of
boards of education is to work out
such a program of school finan
cing that teachers may be paid
salaries commensurate with their
costly university training, their
highly skilled work and ther value!
to their community.
“Failure of boards education to
provide adequate salaries for
teachers is a fundamental failure
of a public agency, and any
board which forces teachers to
take such drastic action as to
strike is seriously negligent of a
public trust.
“Frankly, we wonder-what is(
seriously negligent of a publie
trust. * I
“Frankly, we wonder what is
the future of • nation which:
ipends eight times as much on
three luxuries — liquor, tobacco,
ind horse-racing—as it spends on |
education, and then constanaly (
refuses to pay adequate salaries,
for the education of its children.'
Buffalo is one of the richest cit
ies in one of the richest States
n the Nation, and yet we find
public school teachers compelled
to strike for an adequate living
sage.
I' “Teachers In New York State,
ik in imany other States, are
•aught between restrictive legis
lation at both local and State
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SENATE VOTES TO
CLOSE OPS, OTHER
WAR COKTROl UNITS
Washington, D. C.—Brushing
aside all protests, the Senate
voted, 58-29, to ring down the
surtain on OPA and other war
time control agencies June 30.
Earlier, a Senate Banking Sub
committee voted 3-2 against a
measure to authorize a general
10 per cent boost in rents. Un
der this bill rent controls would
be taken from OPA and. left to
the courts to enforce.
The derision to send OPA to
the graveyard of Government
wartime agenies took the form of
a stipulation in a $180,000,000
deficiency appropriatoin for va
rious Government bureaus.
The stipulation v marked for
death the Office of Temporary
Controls and its constituent agen
cies. These agencies include the
remnants, not only of OPA, but
of the Civilian Production Ad
ministration which wielded enor
mous priority powers during the
war, and the .Office of War Mob
lisation and Reconversion.
The appropriation bill passed
by the Senate now goes back to
the House for action on amend
ments.
Seventeen million dollars was
voted to enable OPA to wind up
its duties, which now consist
mainly of enforcing controls overj
rents, sugar and rice. That j
amount is not enough, said Sen-'
ator Lucas. He said it meant the
end of rent control by April 30.
But Senator Taft told the Senate
that Congress would be able to
set up new control machinery well
ahead of April 30.-7, .™*v..y
Senator Cordon declared OPA
would have ample funds to carry
on and estimated it would have
$10,000,000 more then the amount
needed to pay its final going-out
of-business expenses.
A propoal by Senator Hayden,
to increase funds f&r the Civilian
Production Administration by $1,
200,000, was defeated on a voice
MICHAEL FLYNN DIES;
AIDE FOR 35 UNIONS
Washington, D. C.—Miehal J.
Flynn, 62 executive secretary and
treasurer of America’s Wage
Earners’ Protective Conference
for 19 years, died here of injuries
suffered in a fail on an icy street.
A native of Boston, he held his
post with Protective Conference
since the tariff group’s organisa
tion in 1928.
As executive secretary of the
conference, composed of 35 labor
organisations interested in tariffs
protecting workers against cheap
foreign labor competition, Mr.
Flynn testified in congressional
hearings and reported on tariff
legislation to the organisations.
Prior to his coming to Wash
ington Mr. Flynn was a newspa
perman in Boston.
levels so that additional funds
are not immediately available to
(rant salary increases which, how*
ever, are justly deserved.
“The State Legislature has a
large part of the responsibility
for the strikes because of exist
ing laws which do not provide
hdequate State aid and at the
same time do not permit local
communities to raise sufficient
funds to pay adequate salaries to
teachers and to provide adequate
educational facilities. Thus, teach
ers are caught between Scylla, on
one hand, and Charybdis on the
other.
“In a large sense, the teachers
of the Nation are in part respon
sible for the sad plight of the Na
tion’s schools. The teachers, over
the years, have not been organ
ised in sufficient strength? to de
mand adequate salari>. and to
protect the schools, 'ins school
children have paid a heavy price
for the lack of organisation on
the part of their teachers.
"At the beginning of World
War II, the American Federation
of Labor issued an over-all edu
cational program for which af
filiated unions were urged to press
during the war period. This pro
gram anticipated the crisis which
now faces American education and
which advocated better salaries,
tenure of office and retirement
provisions. Had the teachers
of the Nation be -n adequately
organised to carry out this pro
gram the present crisis would not
have developed, and the teach
ers of Buffalo, St. Paul and other
cities would never have been com
pelled to resort to strikes."
GREEN RENEWS PLEA TO
BRITAIN TO GIVE JEWS
HOMELAND IN PALESTINE
New York City.—AFL Presi
dent William Green, at a testi
monial dinner given in his honor
by the Organisation for Rehabili
tation Through .Training, reiter
ated his fervent appeal to Great
Britain to fulfill its pledge in the
Balfour Declaration and establish
a Jewish National Homeland in
Palestine.
Deploring the plight of millions
df displaced people in war-torn
Europe, and extolling the deter
mined spirit of the JeWs to pur
sue their Aght for an internat'on
al refuge, Mr. Green sharply
criticised the British proposal to
turn over the trusteeship of Pal
esting to the United Nations.
“In attempting to drop the en
tire Palestine question into other
hands,” he told the guests at the
testimonial dinner, “Britain is
seeking to evade her inescapable
responsibilities.” The United Na
tions Organisation, he pointed out,
is not bound by such pledges as
were made by the Balfour Dec
laration.
Reviewing the sorry plight of
the millions of displaced persons,
persecuted by Hitler and others
before and during the war, he de
clared, on behalf of the 7,500,000
members of the AFL, that the
time has come when Britain
should “rise to the heights of
statesmanship and render justice
to a people to whom justice has
long been denied.” )
“By placing principle above
expediency,” he said, “by remain
ing steadfastly true to the highest
traditions of freedom, democracy
and justice, Britain can and will
gain far more in character and
lasting respect with all the free
dom-loving people of the world
than she can possibly lose in
temporary diplomatic maneuvers.
“If Great Britain will only do
what her conscience and honor re
quire her to do and establish
Palestine as a homeland for the
Jews, with unrestricted immigra
tion, she can count upon the
United States and the other free
nations of the' world to back her
up in any evenualities Public
opinion will once again be on her
side and public fath in the devo
tion of free government to the
cause of justice will be restored.”
AFL WORKERS VICTORIOUS
Kenner, La.—An overwhelming
victory was registered at Great
Southern Box Co. here by AFL
members.
DETROIT MAILERS GRANTED
SUBSTANTIAL PAY RAISE
Detroit, Mich.—A new weekly
Kale for Detroit Mailers Union
40 (AFL), has been worked out
granting workers oh the 37 1-2
hour day shift $77.50, for a 35
hour afternoon shift $79.50, and
for the midnight shift, 35 hours,
an $83.50.
This is a raise of ov<u 29 cents
an hour for day men and over
S3 cents for the other class'tied
workers. The new contract is
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