The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-10-16
PROFIT PATRIOTS OF AR
LINGToN FILE RECALL
PETITION.
NOVEMBER "a PROBABLE DATE
OF ELECTION
Socialist School Directors Welcome
Contest.

A recall petition. directed against
Comrades John W Morris and w G
Grimm. Socialist directors of consoli
dated school district No 301. was filed
with Or. Oliver, the clerk of the board
last Thursday evening by Lizzie Jones
w II. Ford and A. H. Mol, the com
mittee having charge of its circula
| ton.
The petition for the recall of W. G
Grimm contained 143 names, and that
of J. w. Morris 142 names. The mum
Der of votes cast at the last election
was 2SS, so the petitioners comprise
80 per cent of the vote on which the
Socialists were elected.
The comrades of the district feel
certain of winning out in the coming
contest, and welcome the recall cleo.
ton as an opportunity to vindicate
their administration.
What the election will prove is
simply the number of real Socialists
in the district 1t is hard to see how
it can prove anything else.
But the election will prove a fruit
full opportunity for Socialist propa-
ganda. A number of Bull Moosers
have already been converted to So
cialism through the agitation incident
TO this school fight.
Mr.. Lancaster Secures Restraining
Order.
The county superintendent of schools
having held illegal the action of the
local board in Withdrawing from the
contract of Mr.. Lancaster as superin-
tendent of schools, the latter applied
to the superior court for an injunction
restraining the board from paying the
salary to Mr.. Caldwell, whom they
had installed as superintendent. A
temporary restraining order was
granted on the 9th mt. and the mat
ter of issuing an Injunction set for
hearing on the Sd inst before Judge
Aston. On this occasion the matter
was threshed out at length by the op-
posing attorneys, Mr.. Mulvihill for
Lancaster and Mr. Merriek for the
board At the conclusion of the hear
ing a temporary injunction was grant
ed, this later being made permanent
upon the filing of bond by Mr.. Ian
caster
Sinclair Gives Up Position.
In the meantime the county super
intendent had resuspended the certifi-
cate of ]. e. Sinclair, the first suspen-
sion having been attacked ON the
ground that he had not previously
taught in the county, the law provid-
ing that the superintendent can sus-
pend the certificate of any teacher
employed in the county. Mr.. Sinclair
evidently considered this second sus-
pension valid, as he ceased teaching
Monday last. His place as principal
of the Garfield school has been taken
by Mr.. Caldwell, the payment OF whose
salary as superintendent has been en-
joined Thus it would seem that the
schools are without recognized SUI
perintendent, for although the county
superintendent and the court have up
held Mr.. Lancaster's contention that
he is the rightful superintendent, there
is still outstanding an order promul-
gated by Messrs. Morris and Grimm
instructing the teachers and janitors
not to recognize him as superintend-
ent. That the majority of the board
did not intend to recognize him as SUI
perintendent was pretty we'll evil
denced last Saturday when he found a
second lock placed on the door of the
superintendent's room at the high
school. After a rather heated inter-
view with Mr. Morris a compromise
was effected by which Mr.. Lancaster
was to be allowed admittance, but the
office desk was to remain open. Upon
finding the new lock flor which he
had no key on the door, Mr.. Ian
CASTER lieu Tie lolioNihS
ton with the board:
Arlington, Wash, Oct. 4, 1913.
To Members of the School Board or
Dist. No. 301, Arlington, Wash
Gentlemen am ready and willing,
as l have always been in the past, to
perform all services required of me as
superintendent of schools of district
No. sol, of Snohomish county Wash
ington; and to work in perfect har-
mony with your honorable body as be-
fore. in so far as is consistent with
the constitution and laws of the state
of Washington and of the United
States, and of my legal duties as SUI
perintendent.
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE LANCASTER,
Cunarinfendpnt of Schools.