[372] The New York Times, November 20, 1917. The Trial, p. 200. In addition to these charges a bibliography on recent literature compiled by Mr. Schneer was introduced as evidence of his unfitness to teach. The “characterizations” of books in the bibliography, read at the trial, in general pertained to the relations of the sexes. See ibid., pp. 203-204.
[373] Ibid., November 17, 1917; also “New York’s Disloyal School Teachers,” Literary Digest, Vol. LV (December 8, 1917), pp. 32-33.
[374] The New York Times, loc. cit.
[375] Ibid., December 20, 1917. Among these were John Dewey, James Harvey Robinson, David Snedden, Carlton J. H. Hayes, H. A. Overstreet, W. P. Montague, Thomas Reed Powell, M. R. Cohen, A. J. Goldfort, N. P. Mead, and J. P. Turner.
[376] “Charges against New York City Teachers,” School and Society, Vol. VI (December 22, 1917), p. 733.
[377] The New York Evening Post quoted in School and Society, loc. cit.
[378] The New York Times, December 20, 1917.
[379] Ibid., November 5, 1918. In reviewing their cases, Toward the New Education, a publication of the Teachers’ Union, ascribed the dismissal of these teachers not to disloyalty, but to their opposition to the “autocracy” of superior officials and to an anti-Semitic bias of these officials. All three teachers were Russian Jews.
[380] Ibid., December 1, 1917. Dotey, op. cit., LXXXVI; The New York Times, November 15, 1917.
[381] The Central Federated Union, November 17, 1917, resolved “in the interest of justice and of the schools that the charges made against the teachers be definitely formulated by a committee of responsible officials, and that a copy of the charges be given to each of the teachers transferred or suspended and that the charges be heard in public.” Ibid.