| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/39/25 |
| Title | Economies |
| Date | 1931 - 1934 |
| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud (NUWT), NUWT members, the Treasury, the Board of Education, Members of Parliament, and the National Federation of Professional Workers regarding:
The termination and modification of wage cuts in various industries and calls for the restoration of cuts for teachers salaries
Standard letter sent by the Board of Education to teachers complaining that the cut to teachers salaries was only partially restored
Arrangements for lobbying of individual MPs by NUWT members
Notes by NUWT members on the reactions of individual MPs to the NUWT lobbying
Discussion of the effect of the cuts on pensions of teachers retiring whilst the cuts are in force
Circulating a Memorandum from the NUWT on 'Woman Teachers and the Budget'
Responses of MPs to 'Woman Teachers and the Budget'
Press cuttings regarding:
Restoration of the cuts imposed in 1931 in various public sector occupations
Examples of occupations, such as the fire service, where the pay cuts have not been restored
Decisions by Lloyds bank to cut staff's cost of living bonus
Proposed alliance between the Civil Service and Teachers and Local Government Officers
Examples from the world wide press of education cuts elsewhere, for example Holland, U.S.A.
Mass lobbying of the House of Commons by woman teachers
The expected budget surplus and discussion of what it should be used for
Report on the 1933 Report of the Committee of the Council on Education in Scotland
Extracts from 'The Schoolmaster & Woman Teacher's Chronicle' on the restoration of the cuts
'The Salary Crisis - an outline of NUWT action', NUWT leaflet
Memorandums and circulars from the NUWT:
'Woman Teachers and the Budget'
material from the original campaign against the cuts to teachers salaries in 1931 including tables documenting teachers salaries, 'Unemployment among Young Trained Teachers', and 'The Salary Position and the Budget'
Memorandum from the Society of Friends regarding 'The effects of the present economies on the Well-Being and best interests of the Children of the Nation'
Pamphlet from the National Union of Teachers advertising a meeting to discuss whether part of the cut should be restored for teachers |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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