[To the Editor of the Seam/iron.]
Sm,—Many will, I am sure, sympathize with "Old Render" in his protest against your apparent undue partiality to the teachers in the matter of the cuts in their salaries. It is well to keep in view the terms of the Report of the May Committee on the subject, viz. :
"The indications we have given of the effect of the change in the cost of living all point to a reduction in the neighbourhood of 30 per cent. Having regard to the practical difficulty of enforcing so large a reduction, we cannot recommend so high a reduction. We find, however, that, after balancing the relative claims of the teacher and the taxpayer and the ratepayer, 20 per cent, is the mininines reduction whirl, should be made. We would point out that, on the average, as regards elementary teachers, this cut will still leave them with more than double their pre-War remuneration."
In Scotland the average cut has been only 8f per cent, or less, in England (I understand) 10 per cent., instead of the 20 per cent, minimum recommended by the May Committee.
If the country is to get out of the present financial morass, much more drastic cuts will yet have to be made in teachers' salaries and in many other directions.—! am, Sir, &e.,
TAXPAYER.
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