LET’S GET SOME MORE FACTS.
On
December 4, 1940, a group called the Taxpayers Federation met in New York.
There were only forty people at this meeting, but these forty were representatives
of big money: The New York Central Railroad, Greenwich Savings Bank and
assorted “friends” of education. You were not at that meeting, nor
I, nor the representatives of the real 7 1/2 million taxpayers in
New York City, nor the parents of the children in the schools, nor the
teachers. And here is the reason we weren’t.
Their aims:
“Make
pupils pay for textbooks and supplies.”
“Make
parents and not the public-school system support child education.”
“Teach
nothing but essentials.”
“Stop
free college education.”
These
forty came to the conclusion that “the solution of the problem of
reducing the cost of education. . . has been
frustrated by the Teachers Unions . . .
Not so many of them, are there? Not
nearly as many as we are. But these are only the front men. Behind them stands
Money—and Reaction—and Politics. That’s why they are
dangerous.
Let’s
name some names:
Milo
F. McDonald, head of the American Education Association and editor of the
“Educational Signpost.”
Francis
S. Mosely, head of the Teachers Alliance.
In
May, 1940, Mrs. Joanna M. Lindloff, member of the
Board of Education, accused both these organizations of “spreading
intolerance and anti-Semitism”. Both groups reflect the point of view of
Father Coughlin and the Christian Front in the world of education.
Milo
F. McDonald wants the substitution of scholarships for a system of city
colleges in order to “reduce the cost of education in this city by making
it unnecessary to maintain public
colleges.”
Will
you trade the schools for a handout?
You
want to remember these names, Mr. Jones. They’re your enemies and the
enemies of your children
