Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-04
BOARD OF EDUCATION.

labor Union Protests Against Hold.
ing the Special Meeting in the Az
ternoon The Protest OF No Avail,
However, and the Meeting Will he
Held Friday, November 10, at p.
M.-Routine Business of the Board.
The board of education held another two
hours session last evening, at which the
principal business under discussion was
the special district meeting which is called
to take action concerning certain resolu-
tons in the interest of union labor which
have been presented to the board in regard
to the Boardman Manual Training school.
Mr.. Fitzgerald and two others, repre-
senting the Central Labor unions of the
city, were present. Mr.. Fitzgerald read q
protest against holding the meeting in
question in the afternoon, which would,
to attend who had been instrumental In
having the meeting, and were most deeply
interested in 1t, and who therefore had q
right to be heard.
At this point Mr.. Moran reported for
the committee which had been appointed
to secure a suitable place for the meeting,
stating that they had been unable to &C.
cure either the Hyperion, Grand Opera
house, Lincoln rink or the arnory for any
evening within the fifteen days allotted in
which the law says the meeting must take
place.
1t was then suggested that the call for
| the meeting be sent out to be held at the
| board of education rooms with the tacit
| understanding that it should be adjourned
| to the polls. This plan, 1t was thought,
| would give more general satisfaction and
give all the people of the city voice in
| the matter. This scheme. however, was
after discussion considered impractioable,
| as it would be impossible for either Mr..
Fitzgerald or the board to guarantee or to
| in any way forecast what the meeting regu-
| lsrly called would do or that it would ad-
| journ to the polls at all If left to a tacit
| understanding. ..
Mr.. Sheriden was of the opinion that
| the green was the only place the meeting
could be held in the evening.
During the discussion Mr.. Whitney asked
Mr.. Fitzgerald how 1t was that those who,
1t would be natural to suppose, would be
be most interested in the matter, that is,
| the masons and carpenters, did not appear
at the meeting at all and had not raised
| their voice In the matter at all,
Mr.. Fitzgerald answered that the princi-
| pie involved was what they were fighting
| for, and launched off into some irrelevant
| remarks concerning the influence which
the wages paid one trade had on the
| others.
After Mr.. Fitzgerald and his companions
| had departed the board decided that il
! would be both impossible and imprac.
ticab]e to heed the protest against holding
| the meeting in the afternoon. They there
fore decided to hold the meeting at the
| Grand opera house on the afternoon oil
Friday, November 10, at 8 O'Clock.
The matters to be considered at the meet.
! ing are the three resolutions presented By
| the union labor men, that prison made
| goods be not used in the public schools
that the bids specify that union labor only
| be employed in the construction of the
Boardman Manual Tanning school, thai
the contracts by awarded to residents Of
New Haven only, and to consider any ae
lions of the former meeting which are sale
| to be illegal.
| The routine business transacted by the
board was as follows:
On recommendation of the committee or
schools Miss Katherine Vandewelden wal
| appointed extra teacher in Eaton school In
place of Miss Agnes Hall, Who resigned te
accept position teacher in the Skinner
normal school, offered to her by Secretary
Hine of the state board of education.
On recommendation of the committee or
special instruction the adoption of the Be
ginner's Greek Composition book was uu
thorized for use in the junior class in the
| high school, and the committee on sup
plies were instructed to purchase forty
copies.
| W. 81. Vale was appointed assistant ir
the night school in place of Mr.. Hovey, re-
signed, at $3.50 per night. ]. W. Levy
was appointed assistant in place of E. q
Tracy, resigned, at 81 80 per night. W
| J. johnson was also appointed assistant ir
the night schools at 81. so per night.
The vote of the board to the effect thai
| the number to be drilled in the commence
| ment chorus be limited to the two uppe,
classes was reconsidered and 1t was voted
to limit the chorus to 800 people, including
the seniors and as many of the juniors Of
possible. 1t was also decided to rent Har
monte hall to hold the drills in once 6
week at the rate of $50 per month
| The committee on supplies we're granted
power to purchase fifty copies of Allen 8
Greenough's Cesar for the high school.
| The purchase of forty arms tablets fol
| recitation room settles was authorized.
Clerk Hewitt was granted three week.
| vacation.
The resolution that no person should b.
appointed teacher in the New Haven city
district public schools who did not have
diploma from a normal or training school
or who had not taken a degree from a col
lege or university, or who had not had sue
| cessful experience in teaching, or who ha,
not taken at least three years course III
the high school or Its equivalent, was made
| rule.