Excerpt from Preliminary Report of the Committee on General Welfare of the Board of Aldermen, City of New York: In the Matter of a Request of the Conference of Organized Labor Relative to Educational Facilities, Meeting of June 26, 1917 We request-the Board of Aldermen to hold hearings and invite the Board of Education and City Officials to answer why all of the above demands from the people of this City is necessary Upon our Board of Education and the City author ities. Since April 24 last, we have forwarded this program to each member of the Board Of Education requesting that it receive their immediate attention, inasmuch as the initiative for expenditures in educational matters must have their inception. In action by the Board of Education. Little or no attention has been paid to this pro gram and demand of ours, so that we now find it necessary for to submit this matter to you with the-request that it receive your immediate attention and that a hearing be granted at which we will have an Opportunity to appear and furnish evidence to substantiate the charges which we make against the Board of Education and the City officers for their failure to adequately equip the schools in this city or to provide other schools as well as the sufficient number of teachers to properly educate the public school children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.