New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11
BAD LEGISLATION
AIDS SUFFRACISTS
Women, in Revolt at Can
merry and Cromwell Bills,
Flock to Join Cause.
CATHOLICS ALSO
JOIN IN MOVEMENT
Teachers, Under Lead of Miss
Grace Strachan, Form Com
mittee-May Bring $4,000 In.

Suffragists ought to feel grateful to
the New York Legislature Of 1915. Not
for passing the suffrage bill, because
that was a foregone conclusion. but for
other measures which are rapidly driv-
ing the sex into the suffrage ranks. In
one week organized bodies of Meth
odist women, Of Catholic women and
OF public school teachers have conse-
Grated themselves to the suffrage cam
paign, openly avowing that recent leg
islation affecting women is responsible
for their feeling that women can ac-
complish little without the vote.
The public school teachers were the
last TO organize. One hundred of them
met yesterday at the headquarters of
the Woman Suffrage party, AZ East
Thirty-fourth Street, and formed the
Teachers Committee for Woman Suf-
fragc, with Miss Grace Strachan as
chairman of the membership commit
tee. As Miss Strachan is president of
the marlborough Association of Wom-
en- Teachers and has great influence
with its 10000 members, this is re-
garded as significant
The Cromwell bill is what has goaded
the teachers into action. Miss
Strachan asserted at yesterdays meet
ing that this bill was tantamount to
wiping out the equal pay for which
the lnterborough Association fought so
long and won. The bill permits the
Board of Estimate TO fix the schedule
of salaries, she said, and she added
that the board had already made a
schedule which would lower the sal
aries of women teachers, while not
touching those Of men.
Miss Katherine d. Blake is presi-
dent of the new committee. Miss Ell
len T. O'Brien is treasurer. and Miss
Lima +. Gano. Miss Marietta Dove and
Miss Laura Charlton are on the execu-
tive committee. Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait addressed the meeting yesterday.
The organizers say they hope to get all
of the $4,000 women teachers in New
York City to join during the summer
and work for the referendum.
The canrery bills, the attempt to
abolish the Weights and Measures Blu
reau and the weakening of the Tene-
ment House Department are also said
by the suffragists to be bringing re-
cruits by thousands to their side.
The first Sunday meeting at the Suf-
frage Shop, 663 Fifth Avenue, to-day
is designed by the Women's Political
Union to "refute forever the charge
that the Roman Catholic Church is
against suffrage" A Roman Catholic
clergyman, the Rev. John l.. Bedford,
Of the Church of the Nativity, Brook
Ign, is to be the speaker. and Miss
Sara McPike, president Of the Catholic
Woman Suffrage Association, Will pre-
side The secretary Of the Catholic
Club, Joseph T. Ryan, is also on the
programme. The hour is 4:3O.
The rest of the schedule for the
week at 4:30 each afternoon is as fol-
lows:
Monday Speakers: Miss Caroline
Ruutz-rees, Miss Caroline Duer; chair
man, Mrs. E. Tiffany Dyer. Through
the courtesy of Warner Van Norden
tea, for the first time in the history
Of the shop, will be served.
Tuesday-Artists' day.
Wednesday Speakers: Mrs. Lillian
Mallory and B. Russell Hertz; chair
man, Mrs. William Curtin Demorest.
neutrality-suspicious. Mrs. Lloyd Os-
borne, Joseph p. Day, Walter Cook;
chairman, Mrs. Adam Batcheller.
Friday Speakers: Mrs. Otto Whit
penn and another to be announced;
chairman, Mrs. Thomas L. Manson.
Saturday Speakers: Berdette j..
Beardsley, Mrs. Henry Wise Miller,
Herman Kobbe.
Among the activities Of the Woman
Suffrage party for to-day are the fol-
lowing:
The I'd Assembly District, Manhattan
Woman Suffrage party. will hold re-
ception at 6 p. m. in the Henry Street
Settlement. 265 Henry Street, for cleo
ton district captains and workers Of
all political parties in the 18th and
18th Senatorial districts. Mrs. lnez
Nilholland Boissevain will speak.
Miss Mary Coffin will meet the cap
tains and workers Of the 9th Assem-
bly, District, Manhattan Woman Sut-
frage party, at 4:30 p. m, Greenwich
House, % Jones Street.
A canvassing bee in the 18th Assem-
bly, District, Brooklyn, Woman Sut..
frage party, will meet at the house Of
Mrs. Adelman, 1854 Bedford Avenue,
at 1920 p. m.