| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/39/21 |
| Title | Economies Campaign (General) |
| Date | 1931 |
| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), individual NUWT Members, Members of Parliament including G. H. Oliver, Ellen Wilkinson, Westminster Teachers Association and various other teaching associations, and the National Federation of Professional Workers (NFPW) regarding:
Invitations to MPs from the NUWT to attend NUWT mass meetings regarding the salary cuts for teachers
Circulars from NUWT headquarters regarding what individual members can do to protest against the salary cuts
Pamphlets produced by the NUWT regarding Equal pay, and protests against the proposed salary cuts for teachers
Discussion between NUWT headquarters and members regarding NUWT position on issues affecting local areas
Resolutions from the NFPW criticising the salary cuts for teachers
Letters from teachers to teaching associations regarding the salary cuts
protests and meetings organised by Defence Committees against the pay cuts for teachers
Reports and publications including:
NUWT produced table 'The Facts about Women Teachers' Salaries'
Typed lists of NUWT actions with regard to proposed salary cuts for teachers
NUWT pamphlets asking women members of the NUT to reconsider and join the NUWT
Memorandum 'On the measures proposed by His Majesty's Government to secure Reductions in National Expenditure', 1931, produced by the Treasury
Copy of 'The Woman Teacher', 15 April 1932
Bulletin of the Birmingham Association of Schoolmasters, 1931
'The Union and the Crisis - Record of Activities August - September 1931', published by the National Union of Teachers
Typed extracts of Hansard questions to the House of Commons regarding the salary cuts for teachers
Press cuttings: regarding various issues around the salary cuts imposed on teachers in the 1931 budget including:
Reactions from various Education Authorities and Local Councils to 'The Bond Amendment', which called for the Teacher's Panel to be re-instated as part of the Burnham Committee and which critcised the lack of involvement of teachers in the decision making regarding teachers salaries
Downgrading of schools and teachers
The Burnham Committee, and reactions to requests from the NUWT and the National Assocation of Schoolmasters that they be given seats on the Committee
Discussion of the implications of the imposed salary cuts on teachers
Articles discussing and theorising over how the salary cuts will be imposed i.e. will they be uniform across all teachers salaries or split up in different ways
Decision of one Education Authority not to pass the salary cut on to teachers
Criticisms of the policy of general wage reductions as a means of trying to solve economic problems |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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