MEN TEACHERS' GUILD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21160, 18 April 1932, Page 11

MEN TEACHERS' GUILD.

SALARY SCHEME CRITICISED. ATTACK ON LEGISLATION. Matters affecting education and teaching were discassed at a large meeting of tho Auckland Men Teachers' Guild on Friday evening. It was decided to support at the annual conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute remits advocating a change in the salary scheme to give differentiation in favour of men teachers, as it was considered that they had to bear a greater portion of the country's economic burden than women teachers. It was also decided to support a remit urging an amendment to the Education Act to permit the formation of a union under tho Industrial Disputes Act.

The action of the Government in calling upon teachers and public servants generally to bear what was considered an undue proportion of the country's difficulties was also criticised. The Government was called upon to withdraw the National Expenditure Adjustment Bill and to replace it with measures which would grapplo with the economic crisis at its source, the private control of the volume of credits and consequently of money; and also to bring about a reorganisation of finance and industry to absorb the unemployed and render unnecessary wago cuts and increased taxation.