Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-03
MCCOY, AS
AFUND CRITIC,
IS D|SCRED|TED
Teachers Committee Issues
Preliminary Statement An
swering Her Charges.
IspecinI 10 the newark start

JERSEY CITY, Jan. Sat the
annual convention of the teachers
retirement fund last September a
committee was appointed to investi-
gate the charges against the fund
made by Miss Emma A, Mccoy, a
New Brunswick school teacher. The
committee today issued preliminary
report, "for the reason" it says,
that we feel 1t our duty to wait no
longer for the formal presentation of
questions by Miss Mccoy, but to take
those she has sent us in newspaper
clippings and report on them at once
in some public way in order that, as
soon as possible, the facts in the case
may become the knowledge of the
teachers of the State"
The committee has grouped Miss
McCoy's questions under four head
fings:
-Four Questions.
l. Why does not the board of trus-
tees obey the law by having the re-
tirement fund office in Trenton?
2. When the State contributes $500
for the administration of the fund,
why are teachers continually being
asked to contribute towards the ex-
at Hoboken?
g. Who can prove that the Myrtle
Allen case" did not originate in the
retirement fund office at Hoboken?
4. Can the board of trustees guar
antee the teachers of New Jersey that
the retirement fund is not a vision
airy scheme?''
Financial Office in Trenton.
The first question the committee
answers by saying that the financial
ton. The State treasurer is the funds
treasurer, all the money of the fund
being paid to him.
1.-THE spirit of the law is therefore
met" the report sets forth. "In main
tanning an additional office in Ho-
boken, the trustees are doing only
what is done by other State commits
sions. The Riparian Commission has
its secretary's Office in Jersey City
The Commission on Potable Water
also has an office in Jersey City.
1.-THE Hoboken office is for the pure
ly secretarial work, and is located
there for the purpose of securing for
the fund the services of Miss Allen
1t could not be expected that she
would give up her school salary for
one of only $1,000 In the secretary's
office. BY putting the working office
of the secretary in Hoboken, where
she may carry it on without resign
ing her school work, the trustees are
unquestionably serving the best in
terests of the fund"
Teachers Not Dunned.
In answering the second question,
the committee says that teachers are
not continually asked to contribute
towards the expenses of the retire.
ment fund office.
1.-The Office of the secretary of the
retirement fund is a State Office. and
none of the money contributed by
teachers goes to it's support" the re-
port says. at should be borne in
mind that the retirement fund de-
partment' of the State Teachers AS
ISOLATION and the teachers retire.
ment fund of the State of New Jersey
are two different organizations with
no official connection with each other,
and have entirely separate Offices"
The Myrtle Allen Case.
Answering query No. 8, the commit
tee states that Andrew Foulds, jr., at
tcrney for Myrtle Allen, can prove
that her case did not originate in the
retirement fund office in Hoboken,