The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-14
SCHOOLS HELD UP BY STRIKES
AND NO HOPE or PEACE EVEN TO
HELP THE CHILDREN.
Appeal OF the Board of Education TO
Leave It's Buildings Out OF the Trade
Fight Frultless So Partitions
Promise Misunderstanding Worse.

The building committee OF the Board OF
Education received yesterday the reply OF
the emergency committee Of the Building
Trades Employers Association to its ap-
peal to have q truce declared in the building
war as far as schools are concerned.
Neither this letter nor the reply from the
Building Trades Alliance to similar ap-
peal gave much hope for the resumption
of work on the tied up school buildings.
The reply of the employers association
was merely a request for information about
schools which were nearest completion
and the trades which were necessary to
complete them. The alliance offered few
general obseI vations.
In the meantime it was stated yesterday
by the Board Of Education's officials that
the school condition Is becoming worse.
and unless work can be resumed at once
the trouble in several of the buildings
will be carried into the new year. when
the customary summer strikes will begin.
Charles H. Adams, chairman OF the
building committee OF the Board OF Educa-
ton, said to SUN reporter yesterday that
the annex to School los at 10Sth street,
near Amsterdam avenue, which ought to
be finished now, could not be opened owing
children out OF school Other. schools
which could be finished In a week or two
il there were no strikes are part OF SchooI
81 in Monroe street, which would seat eOo
pupils; School no, on Cannon street, whoh
will be able to seat 600 more Scnooi iVo
on Worth street. which will seat $50 pupils,
school 81 in Queens which will seat ? 400
pupils, and a number Of smaller schools
Il do not W ant to criticise either side IN the
dispute, said Mr.. Adams, but We do want
something definite. The school SITUATION
is growing every af seboo hearing
completion and the trades affected 10 SEND
TO the employers. The worst thing 10 the
valuable time wasted. Work which could
be done in five days now will take five " eeRs
schools is start ed within week these schools.
which we are anxious to rush along VIII be
DELAYED until the building season next year,
when there Will be more strikes: Inc
situation looks bad from every point or
view. AS far as ] can see there Is no sign
of a settlement. But We want Doth sizes
to let up on the schools.
A committee of one from every trade
represented in the Building Alliance callea
twice yesterday to see Mr.. Adams about
the schools He was not in and the can
ers made no appointment, but he notified
the alliance late yesterday afternoon that
he would see its committee at =. NJ. to-
day. go,
Electrical Workers Union ), whlch 10
locked out, offered last week to finish the
work on the Manual Training School in
Brooklyn and School IS, which could be
finished in a fortnight, If members OF the
new union formed by the employers
association were discharged from the jobs:
The contractor for the two schools agreed
to do this and put the new electrical workers ,
to work on the contracts. The Brooklyn
board Of walking delegates stepped in yes
terday, however, and will not allow work
to be resumed unless the Board OF Educa-
ton takes the work from the present con
tractor. The Manual Training School is
designed to accommodate 2,4OO pupils and
the other school 400.
Chairman Harding Of the press commit
tee of the Building Trades Employers
Association, when told Of the anxiety OF the
Board OF Education to finish the schools,
said last evening:
il wants completed, we will guarantee to
finish them, alliance or no alliance. We
sta nd by our position and will get the men.