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Calling for the repeal of the Teacher's Oath Law, Representative Clarence S. Luitwieler (Republican) of Newton, yesterday filed a bill at Capital Hill to do away with compulsory subscription to the constitution on the part of Massachusetts teachers...
Political commentators consider that the new bill calling for repeal will have a good chance of being passed next January when the General Court will convene. Many of the oath law's more ardent backers, including its author, ex-representative Thomas Dorgan, were not returned to the house in the last election...
Pressure brought to bear by an alliance of organized teacher's units and various Labor Union groups throughout the state was responsible for the defeat of the oath bill faction, while today a "united front" of faculty members and organized labor looms to back or oppose any legislation affecting their interests...
...Labor Unions, who are supported by numerous church organizations and women's club groups, stands the Hearst papers, the D.A.R., and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who supported the law in 1935 when it was hotly contested as a bill before the court. The strength of the oath law supporters suffered greatly when the American Legion voted at its June convention this year to withdraw its sponsorship of the bill...
Decrying the rule as "reminiscent of the late Teacher's Oath Bill Fascism," one Bellboy went on to say, "Most of the suites have more than one room, and you will find that two determined couples are just as effective...