Teachers and their Salaries Lord Halifax's letter regarding those teachers
who have protested because part only of their cuts in salaries have been restored will not be resented 'by those who take a pride in their profession. Lord' lialifax showed that, apart from the unemployed, whose first claim can hardly be questioned, the teachers have benefited from the available surplus' as much as any other class of persons whose salaries were cut, and somewhat more than the income-tax 13ayers. Their claim, therefore, is one for preferential treatment. In objecting to a position which restores half the cut now and offers the probability of full restoration next year, they are asking that others should suffer more than they: That is an unfair demand. The majority of teachers must feel that nothing but harm is done to their prestige by the militant attitude of a section of them who are so conspicuous in invading the field of politics with claims for special pecuniary treatment.
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