IRISH TEACHERS

Evening Star, Issue 14535, 10 December 1910, Page 2

IRISH TEACHERS

Mr John Redmond reeently introduced a deputation of Irish teachers and M.l'.s to tJio Chancellor of tho Exchequer at the UVcasury Office on the subject of pensions to Irish teachers, who wore declared to bo in ;i, worse )>ositiun in this respect than and English teachers. It was declared that in the first place (lie salaries of many assistant teachers were lower than the wages of an English navvy, while the provision for the. aged and disabled was so ]ioor that 111 ol (hem wero in workhouses, while cveiy female teacher who bad reached the ne.eessa.ry ago was eligible for aji old age pension. .Mr Lloyd George, iu reply, expressed, as a seuoolQMster'ri son, his deep sympathy with thera. lb was a, shame and a, disgrace that in a rich Empire like ours Ihoupon whom ilm future so much depended should be so badly provided for. lie delinitely promised them that they should receive equal treatment, so far as the Treasury was concerned, with English and Scottish teachers. He alio promised that when be came to consider the provision to he made for disabled workmen throughout the. country he would carefully and sympathetically consider also whether tfiey could deal with the teachers' fund, which was altogether on an unsatisfactory basis.