The San Francisco call., 1898-12-12
PEDACOCUES
 READY WITH
 THEIR SUIT Civil Action Said to Be the Scheme. AUDITOR TO BE ENDOWED ATTORNEYS MEET TO-DAY TO COMPLETE PLANS. Somehow the Tip Is Out That the Directors Will Audit November Claims on Wednesday
 Afternoon.
ATTORNEYS MEET TO-DAY TO
 COMPLETE PLANS.

Attorneys Olney and Olney Will meet with the committee appointed by the as- sociated school teachers to arrange hnal plans for the legal campaign that Is to begin against the Board of Education. The meeting will amount to not much more than a formality, as the plan by which the teachers will proceed III thelr attempt to force the payment or thelr
 November salaries is already practically settled
 The first step was taken when nearly 800 of the pedagogues signed ana sWore to formal demands for their last month pay. These demands will be presented
 to the Directors at the regular meeting
 of the board on Wednesday afternoon,
 and the subsequent action of that body
 will indicate just how the prearranged
 plan will be put into play.
 The proceedings will be distinctly civil,
 but of a double nature. As the plan Is
 now arranged the Auditor will be hrst enjoined from auditing any and all claims
 against the School Board until such time
 as an adjudication is had of all of the
 questions that are at point. Following
 the injunction suit will be instituted
 against the Directors by all of the 800
 teachers, and all who may yet decide to
 participate in the action, as party plain tiffs to the complaint. With the inJunc- tion operating while the suit progresses there will be something tangible to levy
 upon in case of a favorable decision be- ing rendered.
 Albert Lyser. principal of the John Swett Grammar School, is in the van of the movement and is confident that 1t is along the line that will bring quickest and most satisfactory results. In an inter- view last evening he said:
 1T am more than gratified with the unanimty that the teachers have shown ! in entering into this fight. have been active in it from the start, but solely for the purpose of establishing principle that will protect the teachers in the fu- ture from any such arbitrary action, not 1 from personal motives nor for personal spite against the Directors. In fact, with regard to the Directors, l think that they are public servants and that the teachers they have employed have not the right to criticise their action in any matter concerning school administration. 1 do not think 1t polite to say at this time
 anything as to the legal course that we
 will pursue. though the committee has fully decided upon it.
 Tt has been contended by some of those who have not entered into this movement that in bringing suit against the Directors we will be tying up our No vember money for six or eight months,
 with no prospect of either immediate or
 remote benefit but with the parallel ao-
 tion we propose to bring we will not only get our pay but will fix the position of
 the teacher with regard to the financing Of the schools upon a solid basis so that in the future, If the time for retrenchment ana economy comes, there will be no question or Wnether or not 1t will be ad- V1sable to hold back the teachers pay
 The resolution that was passed by tho board deprfvfng us of November pay was
 so constructed that had we remained qui- escent, taken no legal action, we would have simply agreed to let that months salary go, and we never would have had recourse for 1t. Our sworn demands will be presented to the board on Wednesdav and it's action then will decide our imme- diate course"
 Thomas H. Mccarthy, vice principal of
 the Washington Evening School, is not so sanguine of the success of the plan of the allied teachers as Is Professor Lyser. He has declined to swear to one of the formal demands and has withdrawn from active
 participation in the fight, but he is in sympathy with it and will put up his pro
 rata of the expense that will attend upon
 the proceedings in the courts.
 T cannot see" said MT. Mccarthy, what the teachers are going to gain by
 any other proceedings than mandamus. A writ of mandate takes precedence in court over all other matters, but the civil suits that are proposed must wait their
 turn on the calendar and even if they are eventually decided in favor of the teach CTS there will be nothing to levy upon The money is gone.
 I've started in on this proposition with the understanding that we would proceed by writ of mandate, but some of the young lawyers who hung around the of fees in that, and 1t was through their
 planning that the present scheme was
 fixed up. l and about 300 of the other
 teachers have withdrawn from the fight,
 though we are heartily in sympathy with
 those who have remained in 1t. We do
 not believe that the fee of S1500 promised
 the attorneys Is just one. It amounts
 to 2 per cent of the salaries, and when the
 other necessary costs of suit are added
 the percentage will run up to or per cent at the least calculation"
 The School Directors have been anxious
 ly waiting an announcement of the pro-
 ceedings to be taken, and the teachers have come in for a pretty general CUTS ing. Bantell has started an attack upon Professor Lyser, and seeks to throw upon
 him some of the blame for the excess of
 unaccounted-for supplies that the racing Director has purchased. Somehow the
 tip has gone out that on Wednesday the
 board intends to audit the claims for No-
 vember salaries, and by friends of the Directors 1t is claimed that this has been
 the intention from the beginning of the trouble. The teachers, however look upon
 the rumor as simply intended to gain delay.