Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation

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Nef 331.8809944 EDU
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Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
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Vol. 31 No. 15 (13 Oct 1950)
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Contents

Education Journal of the New South Wales Teachers’ Federation. 1
PREMIER MEETS DEPUTATION ON STUDENTS' ALLOWANCES Interview Follows Student Discontent 1
State Should Provide For Education's Urgent Needs 1
Council's Decisions Concerning Association Ballots 1
For Equal Pay For The Sexes—The Rate For The Job United Action Based On Correct Policy Essential. 2 , 3
Advertising 2
Campaign Of Vilification And Misrepresentation Condemned By Council 3
NEWCASTLE DELEGATION’S STATEMENT. 3
Advertising 3
Education 4
THE STATE BUDGET AND EDUCATION. 4
Restoration Of War-Devastated Education Still An Immense Problem 4
Book Review. Teaching Adolescents 4
TANGENTS 4
Mathematics, Latin, And The Secondary Syllabus 5
Superannuities 5
New English School Built To Minimum Requirements 5
No title 5
"Should The Cane Be Abolished?" 5
The Garden Of Peace 5
Technical Teachers' Annual Conference 6
Advertising 6
Sir John Medley On Academic Freedom 6
Your Part In The Equal Pay Campaign 6
Advertising 6
STOP PRESS. Federation Member Charged 7
ASSOCIATIONS SUPPORT NEW DEAL PLAN. 7
A.C.E.R. BOOKS AT REDUCED COST. 7
NATION-WIDE TEACHER’S CERTIFICATE SOUGHT. 7
Advertising 7
SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND AMENITIES: COUNCIL'S STATEMENT OF NEEDS 8
Teaching Of Science 8
President's Leave 8
A Good Way To Celebrate United Nations Day 8
Interstate Exchange To Be Continued 8
Staffroom Requirements 8
Isolated Teachers’ Shopping Problem. 8
AN OUTBACK SCHOOL. 8
SUPERANNUATION FUND’S PROGRESS. 8
REPRESENTATIVES ON SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDIES SYLLABUS COMMITTEES: NOMINATIONS INVITED. 8
EFFECT OF OVERCROWDING. 8
Advertising 8

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Education  

Journal of the New South Wales Teachers’ Federation.  

Incorporating  

FEDERATION NEWS  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, for transmission by post as newspaper.  

Volume 31, No. 15.  

OCTOBER 13, 1950.  

Three.. pence.  

PREMIER MEETS DEPUTATION ON STUDENTS'  

ALLOWANCES  

Interview Follows Student Discontent  

One of the most successful meetings in Fede  

ration history was held on Tuesday afternoon,  

September 26, when more than 300 students from  

the Sydney and Balmain Teachers' Colleges  

assembled on the roof of Federation House to  

hear report on the students' claims campaign.  

The men’s lounge on the fifth floor had been booked for the  

meeting, but in view of the numbers attending it was found neces  

sary at the last moment to hold the meeting on the roof.  

Teacher-trainees were indignant  

at the refusal of the Premier to re  

ceive deputation of Federation re  

presentatives and students to discuss  

needed increases in their allow  

ances. That refusal was contained  

in communication to the Federa  

tion, dated August 8, stating that in-  

creases in the rates paid to Teachers'  

College students were "not war  

ranted."  

Students’ Discontent.  

Discontent amongst the students had grown  

further following the visit to Federation House  

at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 12, of  

two senior police officers. Superintendent Mc-  

Cormack and Sergeant Lanaghan, to inquire  

from Mr. Lewis, Federation President, whether  

demonstration of students to Parliament  

House was being organised by the Federa  

tion for that afternoon.  

Teachers' College students were startled to  

learn that even the suggestion of mass de  

putation of students to see the Premier was  

sufficient to bring the police to Federation  

House —that, instead of receiving increased  

allowances, they were to receive the atten  

tion of the police.  

Council’s Decision.  

Council on September 23 had carried the  

following resolution: "That mass meeting of  

Teachers' College students be organised in  

each city or town where there is Teachers'  

College, and such mass meetings consider  

organising public demonstrations."  

Students who came down to Federation  

House after lectures had finished on Septem  

ber 26 did so knowing that the organisation  

of mass deputation to the Premier was to  

be considered.  

Message From Premier.  

However, Mr. Lewis informed the students  

that that morning letter had been received  

from the Under-Secretary of the Premier's  

Department, stating that the Premier would  

be "happy to receive deputation at 11 a.m.  

on Friday, the 29th instant."  

The following resolution was unanimously  

adopted by the students: "That the deputa  

tion to the Premier direct his attention to the  

fact that allowances paid to teacher-trainees  

in New South Wales are the lowest paid  

anywhere in Australasia, except Queensland  

(and the Queensland rates are to be increased  

from 1951).  

Campaign To Continue.  

"That the sub-committee consisting of  

metropolitan members of the Teacher Trainees'  

Claims Co-ordinating Committee appoint repre  

sentatives to the deputation.  

"That the students continue to take action  

until their claims have been realised, and  

the sub-committee be instructed to reassemble  

this meeting at an early date, if found  

necessary."  

Following the meeting, 200 students as  

sembled outside Parliament House.  

CASE SUBMITTED.  

The Federation paid the fares of  

students from every Teachers' Col  

lege in the State, so that all Colleges  

could be represented when depu  

tation waited on the Premier at the  

Premier's Office at 11 a.m. on Sep  

tember 29 to make representations  

for increases in the allowances paid  

to teacher-trainees. The Premier was  

informed that it was desired that in  

creases should be retrospective to  

the beginning of this year.  

Members of the deputation were Messrs.  

Lewis, Taylor, Norington and Henry, of the  

Federation, and Messrs. C. Hamer (Sydney  

Teachers' College), R. Hollis (Balmain), J.  

STUDENTS’ MEETING AT FEDERATION HOUSE.  

Two views of the meeting of more than 300 students on the roof of  

Federation House on September 26.  

Pollock (Armidale), L. James (Newcastle) and  

L. Crabtree (Wagga).  

After hearing the deputation, Mr. McGirr  

stated that he would give further considera  

tion to the question of increases, and confer  

with his colleague, the Minister for Educa  

tion, upon the matter. He would inform the  

Federation of his decision in due course.  

State Should Provide For  

Education's Urgent Needs  

Unsatisfactory as provision for education has always been,  

the rapid rise in school population due to increased birth rate and  

migration is making education’s present outlook grim. Never was  

there time when increased financial allocations for education  

were more urgent, especially as the depredation of the £ has the  

effect of rapidly reducing current expenditures.  

The failure of the Commonwealth  

Government at the recent Premiers'  

Conference to allocate adequate  

revenue to the States was severe  

shock to those who hoped that that  

Government would realise its re  

sponsibilities to education. This  

failure is the more inexcusable in  

that the Commonwealth Government  

is responsible for the migration  

policy which will by 1953 have  

added 38,000 children to the primary  

school population alone.  

Despite the States' financial  

straits, the Prime Minister, Mr. Men  

zies, vetoed the unanimous decision  

of the six State Premiers that fur  

ther £25,000,000 from tax revenue be  

allocated to the States. The Federa  

tion's request by telegram that sub  

stantial grants in addition to normal  

allocations be made for essential  

educational expenditure was merely  

"noted.”  

Statement Of Needs.  

In 1946 the Minister for Education, Mr. Hef  

fron, estimated that £36,654,841 of capital  

expenditure and £18,596,284 of annual ex  

penditure from revenue were necessary to  

bring public school education to satisfac  

tory standard.  

For the year 1949-1950 the State Govern-  

ment allocated £13,000,000 in the Budget for  

education. This was record, but it still fell  

far short of the annual appropriation estimat  

ed by Mr. Heffron as necessary in 1946.  

Considerable depreciation had, of course,  

occurred in the meantime.  

State’s Responsibility.  

The responsibility of providing adequate  

finance for education now rests with the State  

Government. Provision of adequate funds will  

mean deficit, which the Commonwealth  

Government should meet in the interests of  

this extremely important national service.  

Determined action of this nature would  

gain the support of the people whose children  

will suffer from the worsening plight of edu  

cational services if the drift is not arrested.  

Surely the welfare of the children of the  

State demands that such action be taken.  

Council's Decisions Concerning Association Ballots  

Council recently unanimously endorsed recommendations by the  

Executive for the conduct of association ballots.  

The recommendations were:—  

"In the conduct of Federation association  

ballots for delegates to Council and Confer  

ence and for the election of association offi  

cers, it is essential that the following mini  

mum requirements should be observed:—  

"(1) All necessary steps shall be taken to  

see that only financial members of the Fede  

ration and the association are allowed to  

vote.  

"(2) Such election shall not be by show of  

hands.  

"(3) No agency other than Federation  

agency shall in any way participate in the  

conduct or management of an association  

ballot."  

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