The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-06-14
SCHOOL BOARD AUT0CRATS
DODGE UNION LABOR issue
Director Proved Offers Resolution Against Marshall Wells
Concern Until Union Labor Troubles Are Settled
With Duluth Show Case Company

The teachers dislike Madam Davis and
she does not trust the teachers. They
might stuff the ballet box, you know.
Madam Davis touchingly told how
she absolutely refused to let her
son s wife serve on the election board.
Then she went further and expressed
the opinion that not a relative of any
member of the board should serve,
either.
Mrs. Firoved usually has been on
the election board in her neighborhood
and was willing to serve this year.
Madam Davis gave the Proved, fam
lily catfish slap when she proposed
that no kinfolks of the directors serve
on the election board and the small
minded, vindictive old autocrats
agreed with her.
Madam Davis strategy made direc-
tor Proved smile.
The autocrats, you know, judge 9TH.
ers by themselves, otherwise they
would not be so terribly suspicious and.
narrow-minded.
But It it awfully mean of R. J.
Coole to second the adoption of that.
Firoved resolution against the Mar
| shall-Wells interests. It was very dis
respectful towards one of the city's.
most aristocratic and autocratic cor
porations.
The autocrats may weaken in their,
plans to back director Coole for re-
election. They may fear that he 90.
over, bag and baggage, to the Boil
sheviki.
The wrestle between Andrew Smith,
Supt. Hoke and his protectors on the
board of education did not crop out
at the meeting. Andrew, on legal ad-
vice, refused to give up the keys Of
the store-room and he still considers,
himself custodian.
Supt. Hoke and assistant Harwood
then barred Andrew Smith out of the.
store-room by securing new locks and
keys. Fraulein Helwig has access, as,
also, has Clarence Olson, the young
man who is trying to fill Andrew
Smith IS shoes.
The last heard from that store-room,
it was in terribly mixed-up condi-
ton. Young Mr.. Olson was appeal
ing to assistant superintendent Har-
wood for succor and Andrew Smith g
old assistants. were doing what they
could to bring order out of chaos.
Andrew Nelson, former member of
the board and attorney for Andrew
Smith, is supposed to have some trump
cards up his sleeve, which he may de-
eide to play almost any day.
The public session of the school
board did not open until about 9 o. m.
Mrs. Bywater was present to see if
some plan could not be devised
whereby inmates of the Children s.
Home can be given educational facil-
tiles at some other place than the
Endion school. The good mothers out
there fear that the inmates of tho
Children Home bring contagious dis
eases to the Endion building. She
could not say definitely that even one
per cent of contagious diseases in the
Endion started that way, but she and
others have fears.
Nearly an hour was spent in ex-
ecutive session over the matter with
out any very definite conclusions. It
is not unlikely that some of the boards
committees and the city Health De-
partment may confer in the matter.
Great joy was caused by presente-
ton Of the plans for the new schools
on Park Point and Bayview Heights.
On motion, bids for the erection Of
those buildings will be called for 50
that they can be opened and censid-
cred on the evening Of June g. This
means that construction of those
school buildings is likely to begin this
summer, if there are no bitches as to
bids and award Of contracts.
Quite number of interesting re-
ports were submitted but this great
family journal must pass them BY for
this issue. The most significant mat
ter was in the report of the commit
tee on schools, where it was reported
that forty teachers have resigned au-
tomatically by failure to sign their
contracts for another year within the
appointed time.
This is an unprecedentedly largo
number, about 8 per cent of the entire
number Of grade teachers. It indi.
Gates that Supt. Hoke is making
progress in attaining safety for him
self by seeing certain teachers drop
out in large numbers. IF designations
keep up at that rate, the futile super
intendent will have to spend most Of
his time out Of the city in search Of
new teachers.
The list of automatic designations
will be printed in the next number Of
the Rip-saw.
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