The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-21

New Haven average salaries and those
 of other cities. In the list she present.
 ed New Haven's average was the low
 est, but she added: There are two
 cities that are lower than New Haven,
 but I am ashamed to mention these
 cities, and I hope they are ashamed of
 the fact"
 As one instance she mentioned a
 member of the present senior class at
 the New Haven Normal school-a grad
 uate of Strong school-Who has been offered $4S0 to start with in Meriden. Closing, she quoted from Miss Key holds report, recently published, on in- creased salaries: "The best is none too
 good for us" 'Is 1t or is it not?" she added. That, gentlemen, we leave for you to settle"
 MT. Hackett himself took up the question of the schedule, and in q strong plea brought out a great many
 Instances of the injustice of the board of education schedule He reiterated the statement that, figuring 300 days to the year, the teachers salary at start | ing now averaged but $l.16, and, fur ther, that even then she did not get all
 of that as in case of illness she got but
 one-fourth of her pay, and that in one year $S,000 of unexpended salary money
 was left in the treasury. He mention
 cd many instances that he declared
 were unjust in the new salary schedule
 to sustain the contention of its unfair hess. He spoke especially of the in- crease of one high school teacher, $500
 a year, to make him head of a depart
 ment of which, he stated, there were but two members, while many much
 larger departments had no stated
 heads.
 The schedule is an unsatisfactory one. Some teachers receive large, some
 small increases. We do not know on what basis the schedule was made. The board of education doesn't consider us worth while telling the basis of their plan to-"
 Taking up the claim of the board of education that the increases amounted to two-thirds of what was asked for, he showed that in every one of the grades the increased maximum was un- der two-thirds and the average increase amounted to but fl per cent. of that asked by the teachers schedule.
 Miss Susan s. Sheridan, of the high school English faculty, was called next and was greeted with stirring applause, She held that the increase asked for in the teachers schedule was but mod est one. She said that no one but a teacher knew the amount of money re- quired for their various duties, and that the work of teachers was much under- estimated. The teachers schedule, she | declared, was carefully considered and 1 was the work of those most interested. | "The teachers know more about the l schools, being in them and of them, 1 than any one else can possibly know, | no matter how deeply he has studied | them. They are best fitted to heal the | wounds they bear" The teachers 1 she characterized as the fair 1 est and most just that could be made, | and as nearly ideal as it was possible | to make it.
 Mir. Hackett made the closing argu- | ment. He said: T want to impress | upDH YOu- llldl IliDiltN tlS llOt lliG IildlD | thing with us at all. Our main conten- ton is that our schedule is the means of justice to the teachers. Our sched- | ule is the main thing, and our main | object Is to get that schedule. To this end we need the appropriation we ask 1f you Some of our teachers have sacrificed their individual interests to lelp the majority in framing it. If money was the whole thing we would lsk for more than we have.
 Our schedule is modest, just and The city can afford to be ust to its teachers. We are confident hat the board of finance can find the money needed, and we ask that it may ,e granted, to take effect September 10, 9O7"
 Mir. Hackett quoted from the charter o support his contention that the board if finance had the legal right and pow r to determine the amount of appro- ,ration for departments without re- ard to what was asked by the depart nent.
 On the matter of the proviso added 0 the contracts by the teachers, Mir lackett declared that it was done sim ly to protect themselves. In conclu- ion he declared that they were going 0 fight it out if 1t takes all summer nd all winter. Hearty applause greet q this statement.
 Criticising a remark accredited to one the members of the board of educa- ion, that the majority of taxpayers onsidered the league schedule a fair ne and should satisfy the teachers, he aid, referring to the board of educa- ion, that the members paid taxes on 1e following property: $112,225, $73, ,090, 1925, $7,500, $4,1OO, $126, and one pays othing, and is, in fact not a citizen New Haven, but resides most of the me in Hartford. $ Against this total of $225, ,366 repre- snted he presented the petition asking le board of finance to grant the ap- reputation for putting the teachers ,hedule into effect The main roll i 'olSed about seven inches in diameter, , ghtly rolled with a couple of good , zed supplements. Among the names Q read off these: Benjamin R. Eng sh, Henry F. English. Julge Samuel r ronson, Pierce N. Welch, Congress- an Sperry, Dennis Blakeslee, Sylves- C 1T Z Poli, Henry Fresenius and Nah n Marlin. He handed 1t to the board lr mid great applause. z Mayor Studley announced that the } bard would consider the request and I sue a statement of their decision lat I . In nlneinr hn com orn t1, Ia tad thn 1 f