Show LABOR LEADER URGES UNIONS FOR TEACHERS Time Has Come When Educators Educators Educators Edu Edu- Must Take Stand Thompson Says The time is here now when teachers teach ers rs m must st take a stand because the union is LS the only type of teachers teachers' organization that trains its members to deal with the forces of reaction that are bent on withdrawing economic economic eco eco- support from public tion It This was waz asserted Tuesday by M. M I IThompson I. I Thompson president of the Utah State Federation of Labor in answer to a declaration Monday by M Miss S Faye Read National Education asso asso- elation official that the time may come when school teachers teachers' will be organized into labor unions There arc are arc some teachers ers who feel fee that their professional dignity their self respect demands that they donot affiliate with labor unions Mr IThompson Thompson said Such teachers are mistaken Their profession while it may be n noble in intent has become ignoble in practice Sees System Their dignity and self respect arc are brushed aside daily by groups interested interested inter inter- ested In promulgating their own doc doe trines rines through the schools For standing standing stand stand- ing ng up for their rights and for expressions ex cx- of honest opinion teachers are arc often dis discharged Such teachers may continue to hold their so called dignity and respect but at the same time Ime the educational system is crumblIng crumbling crumling crum- crum blIng ling around their feet Evidently Miss Read is Js a believer in n the American Federation of Labor Labor La La- bor but is fearful in telling the teachers teach teach- ers tr that t they should affiliate with it Organized labor invites the teachers to o join with it In its program for human human hUeman hu hUe hu- hu man betterment of which its support of free public education is a part To Speak k in Tooele Mr Thompson and other labor of- of of will address a meeting in m Tooele Wednesday evening of the Tooele County School Teachers Teachers' federation federation federation fed fed- recently chartered by the American Federation of Teachers an affiliate of the American F Federation of Labor A. A M. M Scott organizer for the state federation of labor also will address addreS the he meeting M Meetings tings also will wil be held with barbers barbers' and wool pullers pullers' unions of Tooele and organization of all unions Into nto a Tooele federation will be besought besought sought ought Mr Thompson said |