| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/1/43 |
| Title | 'Equal Pay meeting 15 May 1931' |
| Date | 1931 |
| Description | Public meeting called by the NUWT to protest against the exclusion of the NUWT from the Standing Joint Committee on Teachers Salaries (The Burnham Committee). The meeting was held on 5 May at Central Hall, Westminster, London. The Chair of the meeting was Grace I. Cottell and the speakers were A. Fenner Brockway, Florence Key, Monica Whately and Agnes Dawson.
Correspondence between A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), NUWT Branch Secretaries, A. Fenner Brockway (Member of Parliament), Monica Whately, Miss F. A. Underwood (Women's Freedom League), the Six Point Group, the Open Door Council, the Associations of Assistant Mistresses in Secondary Schools and other women's organisations.
The correspondence covers:
Circular letters from Central Council sent to Branches, the Press, and other women's organisations explaining the reasons for calling the public meeting
Request to branches to publicise the meeting as much as possible
Details of publicity for the meeting undertaken by other organisations such as the Women's Freedom League, the Electrical Association for Women and the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene
Circular from NUWT to other women's organisations asking if they would support the Resolution passed at the meeting regarding the lack of female representation on the Standing Joint Committee on Teachers Salaries
Summary of replies from various societies to the Resolution passed at the meeting
Letters sent to MPs informing them of the Resolution passed at the meeting
Handbill and poster publicising the meeting
NUWT Resolution protesting against the lack of female representation on the Standing Joint Committee on Teachers Salaries and the exclusion of a representative of the NUWT |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Show related Persons records.