The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04
They Have a Plan of
Their Own.
BALANCE GOES TO CREDITORS
CURRENT FUNDS MUST NOT BE
INTERPRETED WITH.
If Tradesmen Do Not Wish to Accept
the Teachers Terms the Fight
Will Be Inaugu-
rated.

The teachers have thrown down the
gauntlet and are out making terms them
selves. They have refused the compromise
submitted by the merchants and have
submitted a plan of their own which, 1t
has been reported, is acceptable to the
other side; should it not prove so, how
ever they will fight In court or out of it,
on the balance for the past six months or
on the money for the months to come.
The meeting called for yesterday after
noon attracted several hundred teachers
the session being in the auditorium of the
Girls High School. 1t was for the pur-
pose of taking definite action on the ques-
ton of compromise, and the action taken
was definite enough for anybody.
A substitute for the plan offered by the
merchants was submitted and was adopt
ed in the form of three resolutions. They
were as follows
Resolved That the committee on litigation
be and is hereby directed to dismiss the
litigation so far as the payment of the So
called merchants claims are concerned. pro-
Vided
THAT there be no assignment of teachers
claims.
2-That the holders of the merchants claims
agree not to collect the same out of the moneys
provided for the last six months of the fiscal
year.
cordance with the provisions of this resolu-
ton cannot be made, that the committee be
and is hereby directed TO prosecute the pend
ing litigation and TO take such further legal
steps as may be necessary.
These resolutions were not all adopted
at the same time. The first two were
brought up by themselves and We're
passed and then the last was considered.
1t was suggested that instead of settling
the matter right then and there it would
be better to have the committee report
back to the teachers and then allow them
to decide on further proceedings, but 1t
was finally decided to place the committee
in position TO give the merchants a
definite idea as to the stand of the teach
ers in the matter.
The meeting opened with an explanation
by f. H Clark of the Lowell High School
as to matters which had been investigat-
ed and information which had been OBJ
shown by him and by subsequent speak
ers that the letters received from the
Auditor, Treasurer and President of the
Board of Education were written under q
Misrepresentation and communications
from the three officials were read to show
the view they had come to take of the
situation. Auditor Wells wrote TO say
that he would support the board in its
endeavor to secure to the two coming
months their full share of the half of the
years appropriation.
titled to one-half of the years appropria-
ton to run the school department from
January to July. / J. Truman. Treas
vised that the teachers accept the offer of
the merchants he believed it referred to
the $35. 900 balance from the last half Of
the fiscal year, instead of the funds for
the current half as well. He declared
that under such circumstances the teach
ers should never compromise. President
Bergerot wrote that he, too, had misun-
derstood the terms of the compromise
and so he would withdraw his recon-
mendation that they accept, in view of
the increased Importance which the mat
ter had taken in his eyes, and he would
not take the responsibility of advising
them.
A resolution was adopted requiring the
litigation committee to make report
upon it's finances and also If there is any
thing due. The resolution at the same
time pledged the. teachers to pay prompt
~ all that may be owing.
On motion It was decided to fill the va
cancy on the litigation committee made
and Mr. Clark was proposed: Under the
formation Of the committee, however, the
teacher, and Mr.. Clark was of the High
School. Mrs. l.. K. Burke. principal OF
the Columbia School, was therefore added
m the committee.