Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29
SCHOOL CONFERENCE.
n Firm Request to the City and state
Authorities for Prompt and Explicit
Reply.

| Firm Request to the City and State
Authorities for Prompt and Explicit
Reply.
The New York School Conference met
al the Labor Lyceum on Friday evening,
March q. The Special Committee re.
ported that letters, the draft of which
had been submitted and approved at the
previous meeting of the Conference,
were sent to the Mayor, to the Governor,
to the Board of Education as body,
and to each individual member of the
Board, The letters sent to the May or
and to the Governor read respectively as
follows:
Hon. HUGH j. GRANT, Mayor of New
York city.
SR:-The undersigned, secretary of
| the School Conference of New York
city, has been instructed by this body
to bring to your attention the accom-.
| panying Report etc, concerning the con-
dition of the schools of this city and to
| request the favor of a reply stating what
steps you propose, as member of the
| Board of Estimate and Apportionment,
| and as Mayor of the city, to take in the
| matter.
1t is suggested that, if the appropri.
atoms OF the current year could not
now be su plemented without leglsla-
| ton, there is still time for the Mayor
to urge legislation during the present
| session of the Legislature in the interest
of the schools as he has so vigorously done
in the matter of rapid transit.
Awaiting the favor of prompt and
explicit reply, | remain
Respectfully
GEO. ii. McVEY.
Hon. DAVID B. HILL, Governor of the
State of New York.
Sir:-The undersigned, secretary of
the School Conference of New York
city, has been instructed by this body
to bring to your attention the accom-
panying Report etc, concerning the
state of the schools of this city and to
suggest that, although Bill No, 1906, (the
Compulsory Education BilD, vetoed last
year and now pending in the Legisla
ture, is practically worthless, yet some
legislation embodying the requirements
set forth in the closing paragraphs of the
accompanying Report is an urgent ne,
cessity, and should be made the subject
of an executive recommendation to the
Legislature.
Awaiting the favor of a prompt reply
stating what steps you propose to take
in matter of such vital importance to
the people of the State, remain
Respectfully
GEO II. MCVEY.
Other letters are being written, ad-
dressed and mailed as fast as possible to
every member of the Assembly and
Senate.
Delegate Harris, of Cigarmakers
Union l44, announced that the members
of his union had bought TAO copies of the
Report of the Conference on the state of
the schools, $4,000 copies of which have
been printed in English. He paid $40
to the Treasurer. Other organizations
among which the Piano Makers, the
Custom Tailors, the Machine Wood
Workers, the American Section s. l.. p,
the Hackmen, the Varnishers, etc, have
also bought copies at the request of their
members. who pay for them. As we
go to press we learn that the demand of
individual members of labor organza
tons for copies reaches at least 5000,
and second English edition may soon
be necessary.
1t was reported at the meeting that
many people had expressed desire for
German copies of the Report, and as
nearly enough money had already been
received from previous sales to cover
the expense of the first English edition.
it was resolved to print Immediately
10000 in German.
The Report is to be sent at the expense
of the Conference to every public school
teacher, and the special committee is
preparing to hold a series of meetings
which the teachers will be invited to at,
tend with view to their effective Or
ganization for self-protection and the
improvement o. public education. The
public interest in The condition of the
schools and the work of the Conference
is rapidly growing.