The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-23
TEACHERS PLAN
 5 TO BE AT POLLS
Ell Station Members Near N Voting Places To Work
 For Tenure Act.
HDUSE-TO-HOUsE CANVASS
Hague Votes To Do Intensive
 Campaigning In Every Ward EOf City.

@New Haven. Sept. s23-F'rom plans nhde yesterday afternoon at a meet iMg of the New Haven Teachers ltRgue it can be said that New Haven Y4ll see the most unique municipal dmpaign in years The teachers will go the limit in their efforts to secure the passage of the Hackett tenure of 04fice bill. They will make a house W house canvass of the fifteen wards iNstructing the voters as to exactly What the teachers want for a tenure Mi, and what the Hackett bill pro- y4des- The teachers believe that iRuch as. the subject has been talked q, there are still. a number of voters h doubt as to it's merits
 In addition to this action women teachers will be stationed just outside the seventy-five foot line at the poll 51g places in each ward. to acquaint Voters with the features of the Hack ett bill. A number of teachers from Zach ward are going to the polls to ask the privilege of voting, but wheth- Sr if refused that privilege, on ac- count of the ruling of Corporation Counsel K1einer that women cannot vote on this school matter, they will Carry the matter to the courts has not ret been decided.
 A meeting of the executive commit tee of the league will be held this evening to organize the campaign. A teacher will be appointed in every ward who will have charge of a cer- tain number of teachers, these to do the work of canvaSsing and instruct ing voters at the polls
 Miss Catherine Brennan, president of the league, made a report of the summers work done in the interest of the tenure act and received the unani- nous endorsement of the 400 mem bers of the league present at the meeting. Loyalty to the interests of the association and enthusiasm for the next two weeks work was ex- pressed by the league as a unit. A vote of thanks was given Miss Bren- nan for her work Again the Hack cit bill was endorsed and when Mn iceived enthusiastic applause. showing las the teachers said, the feeling of Loyalty which they as body have for Mir sHackett, and scornfng the 1ntfTna- tion that he has anything at heart but the interest of the teachers in his perfectfng and submitting a. tenure of office bf1l. One of the teachers said. The teachers loved and respected MT. Hackett who was one of their number long before he created a ten ure bill, and he would have had their support whether he worked for the tenure bill or not-''
 The league will shortly pass reso1u- tions thanking the citizens of the city for their uniform sympathy and consideration to the teaching body in . the recent campaign to secure sigma lures to their petition.
 Observers of the situation are begin ming to ask if the teachers are count ing the cost in their prospective cam paign to secure their bill, if they real ize the. danger to individual members who are known by the board of edu- cation to be active in the movement One of the members of the board is said to have circulated in no uncer- tain terms the statement that the board has ''the number of every teacher who took part in the cam paign.'
 At the close of the meeting yes terday. a large number of teachers went to the board of registration to be made voters.
 The subject of too much supervision was not taken up by the league and proba bly, will not be as was reported. If Dr. William F. Verdi of the board of education sees fit to fight the pres eat tendency to reduce the number of supervisors in the schools, in which however, he is bound to stand alone, on account of the small support he will obtain in his own body, he will receive at least the moral support of the teaching body which might con- sider it indelicate to attack any pol icv of the board in it's sessions.