THE SCHOOL TEACHERS
• Sir,—One outstanding proposal in the Budget is to give 10 per cent, to the Civil Service,' including school teachers. This should be .strongly resisted, as it is very, unfair to much more deserving sections of the community, particularly as regards School teachers, who. get seven days'-pay for five days! "work," get six weeks' holiday at Christmas on full pay, to say nothing of the many term and other holidays. They get, on the whole, good sai&ries, and have constant and regular employment. Many of them are 6ingle people. ' .Several wno are married lmve neither chick nor child. The proposal is outrageousi Civil Servants may hav? to do what hundreds of private persons have' got to do—work a little harder, in the absence of those Vho are fighting for them; The "Government stroke" may have had to be eased oil, and perhaps the harder work has lessened the supply of "civility" of some Civil Servants. If ever there was a case of greasing the fat pig, this proposal' is one.—l am, etc., 1 6 HONESTY.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2801, 20 June 1916, Page 6
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177THE SCHOOL TEACHERS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2801, 20 June 1916, Page 6
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