The Jewish school commission, recently appointed by the Quebec government to either negotiate with the Protestants or failing in that to establish separate Jewish schools, will hold its first informal meeting tonight to discuss the demands that will be made on the Protestants regarding the education of Jewish children.
Samuel W. Livingstone, chairman of the commission, said he was not yet in a position to make public the Jewish demands, but he pointed out that the members of the commission are eager to reach a satisfactory solution of the problem. He said that “the Jewish community may rest assured that the school commission will do everything possible to safeguard the dignity and interests of the Jewish people.
“We will not suffer the Jewish children to feel that they are in any way inferior to the Protestant children. With the passing of the school bill we are no longer tenants, but landlords. We know what we want. We know what we are entitled to and if we can not get it by negotiation there is no alternative but to immediately proceed with the organization of separate schools.”
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