Chicago Jewish Teachers Lose Fight to Get Pay for the High Holidays

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Jewish school teachers in Chicago will most likely fail in their effort to have the Board of Education rescind its year-old ruling and allow them full pay during their absence from their class rooms on Jewish holidays.

A year ago when the Eucharistic congress was to be held in Chicago, a Catholic member of the Board of Education proposed that Catholic teachers be allowed to absent themselves from their schools to attend the Catholic ceremonies and draw fullpay. The board voted down this measure. It was then proposed that no teachers of any religious belief be allowed pay when absent because of church holidays. This action broke a precedent of more than every years standing in Chicago. City Collector Morris Eller took the matter up with Mayor William Hale Thompsor, who referred him to Lewis Chath, president of the board of education. Mr. Chath told Mr. Eller that he favored paying the teachers but the matter would have to be put up at a vote by the board and he doubted that the measure would reserve enough votes for passage. Just when the matter will be brought up before the school board is not known.

Jewish students who would have bad to register at M##ll University on September 27th and 28th, the two days of Ros## Hashanu##, were given special consideration by the University. Arrangements were made through Rabbi Julius Berger by which Jewish students were permitted to register the day after the New Year without incurring the customary late registration fees. /byline>

With the goal set at 3000 new members, the independent Order Erith Sholom launched its membership campaign on Sunday. There are at the present 200 Broth Sholom lodges throughout the Jewish communities of America.

The membership campaign will be continued until December 21st.

The headquarters of the Order are in Philadelphia, where it was founded in 1905.