TEACHERS' SALARIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2126, 18 April 1914, Page 12

TEACHERS' SALARIES

•AUfKiahfli April 17. ■ Strong oseepiiiejt WoS tajk-oil liy a taclior et the tjunrterly nieoting of tho ingtituto this nio-ffljiig to tlho loobb statoHichte thai 'have boeh madid of late that teachers' siilafiee svef£ raised la«L year. "We ought to tcepp an oyo on theEe- p&fam-bti-ja*ing ; poUtic,il ac-ro-biite," tas deolafeil indiges-htly. lu further explanation of tlio widespread Batiiro of tlio' gricvaiico Jj6 mdicatfid. a number of politicians for making mis-. leading profioiiucements as to teaeher*' ■ Siiaries. These, be said, were takeu up: by tho minor Press and WouM seriously. prejudice tho efforts of teachers to Rot «. material increase ia safeties. Tlio fact was that a vory small seetfon of; tbft teacheTs had got » : ii increase j year, oad these were men who least necdwl it. What they got fast yoat-i waa merely a political gift, aiid tho puV He was being; misled into bdioviilß tlift , tfliere- had been a general increase hi teftehers' salaries. He ieev«d tluit tho attention of tho Prime Minister and of the llinfotor of Educaifou 1)6 -dr-ah'ji to t-fo& frequent stfttontoiits tlint tcaohcTs': sakries had been raised; last year, when. the tact'wis that tlio increases applied to only a- few teachers. After soiuo disenssion it was docktcd t3i»t Uio tiv© bo instritototi to take active, etcpe to combat misfeadiflg β-tatcmehts that had haeit mado in cortncc-Uofl with, j-n----erfcasps in ieae-liors' Biiiaries.