The Butler County Press

By International Labor News Service.

Chicago.—International Labor News Service's account of the fight being conducted by the Chicago Federation of Labor and the Chicago Teachers' Federation against the "Garyizing" of the Chicago public schools has attracted country-wide attention.

The account was read by Peter J. Brady, chairman of the committee on education and banking of the New York State Federation of Labor and president of the Federation Bank of New York city, who has come to the assistance of the organized labor forces of Chicago in an interesting and illuminating letter that he has written to Victor A. Olander, secretary-treasurer of the Illinois State Federation of Labor.

Mr. Olander is leading Chicago labor's fight against the plan of the board of education to adopt the platoon system, junior highs and intelligence tests for pupils in the Chicago public schools. The executive board of the Chicago Federation of Labor has denounced the plan as an attempt to introduce the Hindu caste system into the local public schools, and the Chicago Teachers' Federation has characterized the plan as "the factory system of education."

New York Unions Beat Same Scheme

Mr. Brady in his letter to Mr. Olander refers to the new departure as the "get-educated-quick" system, and tells of the methods employed by organized labor to defeat efforts to put over a similar plan in the New York city public schools several years ago.

After saying that "it is evident that you have a situation in Chicago very similar to one we had in New York almost ten years ago, when the late Mayor Mitchell attempted to Garyize our school system," Mr. Brady then says in his letter to Mr. Olander:

"Our unions took such a vigorous interest in the school situation that the mayoralty election of 1916 was decided entirely upon school issues and we succeeded in driving out all of the pernicious influences of the Rockefeller Foundation and others which were then in control of our school system."

Continuous Education of People Is Urged

Mr. Brady inclosed a copy of the New York State Federation of Labor educational program and gave valuable advice to Chicago labor. He further said:

"Please note in our State Federation of Labor program that we are endeavoring to destroy entirely the line of demarcation between graduation from the elementary school to the high school. It is a great mistake in education that there is this division, and the best advantages will accrue to the education of all the people if the school program is approached from the viewpoint that education is continuous and there is no half-way stopping place such as the elementary school and junior high schools. It is the ultimate aim of our unions to have compulsory education provided for all the children up until they graduate from high school."