The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-19
Perry of Anti-Strike Fame, Slipped Over Another Bill on Pub lie by Which It Is Hoped to Keep City Saf ely Republican StateWiSe.

With the approach of the state campaign and the consequent specu lation on candidates for senatorial places another of the highbinder gerrymanders perpetrated by the Re publican representatives from New Haven in the last general assembly by which they hoped to keep the city "safe for Republicanism" has just come to light. They not only upset the entire municipal process of cleo ton by substituting B wards for I5, but went farther and in a separate bill so split up the four senatorial 2 districts in New Haven that it now has even their own crowd guessing as to where they are going to get off. The bill splitting the senatorial dis tricts was House bill 1o38, offered by Representative Perry who now has a life job as clerk of the common pleas court and was passed without hear ing and approved just the same, even as was the 33-ward bill.
 The new senatorial districting doesn't do a thing but try to make it sent New Haven in the Senate here after. For instance in the Eighth dis trict (where Stephen Whitney and C.. Herbert Bishop, Democrats, won out a few years ago, and P. F. OMeara of the C. F. of l.. made a great run two years ago) a slice is cut off the old Twelfth ward that will make such doings impossible again-as they figure it. All south of Lombard street in the old Twelfth is cut off and added to the Eleventh district, there by putting MT O'Meara, should he be candidate again, as he will be, against a strong foreign republican vote in the old Sixth and Seventh wards. What is added to the Eighth district by the cutoff is expected to make the Eighth safe for any repub lican hereafter.
 Likewise in the old Tenth district, always a democratic bailiwick unless accidents happen as did occur twice in the districts history, a big slice of the democratic ward is cut off and the line moved 10 the north so that the democrats in the old Third can be overcome by the hide bound republi- wards which are and have been in the Ninth district, always republican.
 The Ninth district wasn't bothered much except to be added to. That starts in the First ward and runs to Westville and has been represented by such we'll known statesmen as Harry Leonard, president of the Builders Exchange. The democrats on the outskirts were getting too numerous for comfort however so a big bunch of the Third ward was split off and put into the district where they can be controlled.
 When the gerrymander was made without the peoples knowledge 1t was figured it would help the repub- licans gain control of the city in the last election, Instead it proved a boomerang and may even do so again Since the shift and cutting off of part of the Twelfth to add to the Eighth district, hordes of railroaders and other workers have been f1ocking to the Cedar Hill district for residences. They are mainly democrats from other sections whose work requires their residence nearby. They are pretty numerous now and by election may be enough to turn tables
 Perry gained undying fame among union men by his advocacy of the anti-strike bill at the last session, He has now gone to his reward with permanent court job, which how ever is only one more added to the continuous string of public jobs he has had since coming to New Haven to study at Yale.
 That you may know where you are at now and act accordingly the fol- lowing list of district apportionments is published:
 Eighth district-Wards I3-I4-I5-I6- I7-I8-Io-2o-28-3I.
 Ninth distrct-Wards I-2-3-4-2I-22 2324-2o-3o.
 Tenth district-Wards 5-6-7-8-o-Io
 Eleventh district-Wards IT-I2-25- 26-27-32-33.