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Show i , UNION OF TEACHERS ; f San Francisco .Instructors Organize to r .1 j . Protect Their Positions. " I t SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. S. A perma- gji f nent organization which will be known K as the ban Francisco Teachers' fedora- , If j tion was perfected today, when forty : 1 instructors in the public schools assem- i j ) bled at Plymouth Congregational f I church. Tt is understood that the prin- SpJ ij cipal object of tho teachers in organiz- f - 'nc is to safeguard their positions and ' , their salaries. The federation will have f 4 i a constitution similar to that of a Phi- fi cago teachers' organization, which is af- , . i filiated with the American Federation r -j "v of Labor. :S ' Ever since tho Board of Education ; ,j . took $150,000 from the salary fund to Jj build and repair schools destroyed or : damaged by the great lire, the teachers Mi .who suffered in salary have been cn- . if deavorinp to recover the money. Their v 1 ofl'orts eulnrinared iu the meeting today. |