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
Issue
Vol. 49 No. 15 (11 Sep 1968)
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Contents

Education Journal of The New South Wales Teachers Federation 1
Mass Meetings of Teachers Called 1
WORKING CONDITIONS AND SALARIES COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1
Teacher Opinion 1
A GROWING CONCERN 1
Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1
EDUCATION 2
“The Lands were Fairly Portioned 2
AN IMPORTANT COMMITTEE 2
The President Writes "UNPRECEDENTED WAVE OF ACTIVITY" 2
AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION Challenge and Opportunity 3 , 4
Advertising 4
Pre-school Education 4
Embroiderers’ Guild of N.S.W. 4
Advertising 4
Aberdeen Public School 5
Advertising 5
REPRESSIVE LEGISLATION 5
YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO OBTAIN INFORMATION 5
Advertising 5
THE POWER OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD 6
DEPUTATION STAFFING SHORTAGE DISCUSSED WITH MINISTER 6
Advertising 6
Association Meetings 6
Advertising 6
The Development of the Alphabet 6
SCHOOL OF HAIRDRESSING DISPUTE OVER APPRENTICE TRAINING NOT RESOLVED 6
Technical Teachers’ Resolution 6
A DISCUSSION “Should Professionals Strike” 6
The Anatomy of Trade Unionism Today 7
Sewing Allowances 7
Advertising 7
OBITUARY T. A. Hingston 7
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 7
Advertising 7
Some Vacation Suggestions 7
ELECTION OF BEPRESENTATIVES OF ASSOCIATIONS ON THE FEDERATION COUNCIL FOR THE BIENNIAL PERIOD 1989-70 8
Advertising 8
1968 Annual Conference Topics Submitted 8
Advertising 8
Dear Editor Attacks on Federation 9
Primary Teaching 9
Australia Bound 9
Salaries 9
SCHOOL CENTENATRIES 9
Advertising 9
Watson High School and Hutjena High School, Bougainville 9
Advertising 9
EDUCATION CROSSWORD No. 82 9
Association reports Technical Teachers7 Association 10
Federation Associate 10
Advertising 10
Public Service Board Told Reasons For Teacher Unrest 10
Advertising 10
ALBURY ASSOCIATION ANNIVERSARY DINNER 11
Advertising 11
THE DYASON MEMORIAL LECTURES 1968 11
Dustless Chalk at Last? 11
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR 11
Advertising 11
MASTER OF EDUCATION DEGREE 11
The Federal Budget and Education 12
Home Economics Teachers "Unpaid Caterers" 12
Salaries-1968 National Wage Case 12
HISTORIC BERRIMA 12

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Education  

Journal of The New South Wales Teachers Federation  

1918-1968: FIFTY YEARS OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS  

Registered at the G.P.0., Sydney, for transmission by post as periodical.  

Vol. 49, No. 15  

SEPTEMBER 11, 1968  

Price: Three cents  

Mass Meetings  

of Teachers  

Called  

Whether or not teachers should be  

called to meetings held in school time  

was the question Council was asked on  

Friday, August 23.  

At the previous meeting on July 13 resolution  

was adopted which asked outer metropolitan as-  

sociations “to call mass meetings in the month of  

July”, and for similar meetings to be organised in  

the Hurstville, Bankstown and Eastern Suburbs  

areas.  

WORKING CONDITIONS AND SALARIES  

COUNCIL RESOLUTION  

“l.That mass meeting of teachers in the metropolitan  

area be held at 4.15 p.m. on Thursday, September 26,  

1968, to consider action on the following:  

★ failure of the Government to provide adequate staff-  

ing for schools in 1969, resulting in worsening con-  

ditions for pupils and teachers;  

★ failure to provide adequate relief staff;  

★ failure to open any new teachers’ colleges in 1969,  

despite Commonwealth grants for the purpose;  

★ failure to implement the Government’s promise to  

introduce minimum of three years’ training for all  

teachers;  

★ failure to grant teachers’ college scholarships to all  

suitable qualified applicants;  

★ failure to introduce allowances for trainee teachers  

which reflect realistically the cost of living and their  

status in the community;  

★ failure to set up an Education Commission, as  

promised by the Government;  

★ failure of the Public Service Board to re-open the  

current salaries agreements, thus denying measure  

of salary justice to teachers.  

2. That the meeting consider calling upon teachers to  

refrain from duty for one day, and to attend pro-  

test rallies in Sydney and in other appropriate  

centres throughout the State. That the Sydney  

meeting be followed by deputations to M.L.A’s. at  

Parliament House.  

3. (a) That country associations and school staffs be  

asked to consider these matters, and to forward  

their views to the General Secretary in time to be  

placed before the September 26 meeting.  

(b) That Executive consider the possibility of holding  

meetings simultaneously with the Sydney meeting  

in country centres selected by the Executive and  

that meetings be connected to the Sydney meeting  

by land line and provision be made for those  

attending the country meetings to vote on the  

issues raised in Sydney.  

4. That special meeting of Federation Council be called  

at 9.30 a.m. on Saturday, September 28, in order to  

consider the recommendations of the Mass Meeting.”  

Teacher Opinion  

At area meetings and at meetings  

of school staffs, teachers have been  

outspoken in their criticism of the  

present situation in the schools. They  

have asked for:  

• More Federal finance for  

education  

• An Education Commission  

• Improvements in staffing  

• Reduced class sizes  

• Three years' teacher training  

• More scholarships, better  

allowances  

• Re-opening of the salaries  

agreement  

• Meetings of teachers in school  

time.  

GROWING CONCERN  

Miss E. W. Mattick,  

acting President, reported  

to Council on the area  

meetings of teachers held  

since the previous Council  

meeting.  

Well Attended  

Meetings  

Council was told that meet-  

ings had been held in 11 areas,  

including Newcastle and Illa-  

warra. Of these meetings one  

was quite small, but attendances  

at the others had ranged from  

200 to 500 teachers.  

“Most of the meetings,” said  

Miss Mattick, “carried resolu-  

tions asking school staffs to  

meet and consider holding  

further meetings in school time.  

“Meetings at Leichhardt,  

North Sydney, Wollongong and  

Paddington carried resolutions  

calling for mass meeting of  

teachers in school time to con-  

sider further action.”  

Miss Mattick said that at the  

meetings she attended there was  

no doubt about the feelings of  

the teachers present.  

“There is growing concern”  

she continued, “about the de-  

terioration of conditions, and  

great concern about the Public  

Service Board’s attitude towards  

the question of salaries.”  

Since these well attended area  

meetings there have been meet-  

ings at 35 high schools and  

similar number of primary  

schools and infants’ depart-  

ments.  

School Staffs Support  

The Federation office has  

been notified by these schools  

that their staffs support the pro-  

posal that meetings be held in  

school time.  

On the other hand two high  

schools and ten primary schools  

have expressed opposition to  

such school-time meetings.  

Reports have still to be re-  

ceived from other schools which  

have considered this proposal at  

staff meetings.  

resolution for considera-  

tion by Council had been pre-  

pared by the Executive. This  

resolution proposed mass  

meeting of teachers outside  

school hours to consider further  

action on working conditions  

and salaries.  

The text of the resolution  

which was finally adopted  

unanimously by Council is  

printed on this page. It pro-  

poses:  

• Mass meetings of teachers in  

Sydney and country areas at  

4.15 p.m. on Thursday,  

September 26.  

• special meeting of Council  

on Saturday, September 28  

to consider recommenda-  

tions made by the mass  

meetings.  

Invasion of Czechoslovakia  

The invasion of Czechoslovakia was fore-  

most in the minds of councillors when they  

assembled at Federation House on Friday,  

August 23.  

The following resolution of protest was  

carried with one abstention.  

This Council of the N.S.W. Teachers’ Federation  

strongly supports the United Nations’ principle of self-  

determination and is deeply concerned at the threat to  

world peace which exists in Vietnam and other areas  

of war and conflict and accordingly condemns the un-  

warranted and inhuman invasion of Czechoslovakia by  

the armed forces of the U.S.S.R., East Germany, Bul-  

garia, Hungary and Poland, and urges the U.N.O. to  

take all actions within its power—  

• to press for the withdrawal by the invading countries  

of their armed forces from Czechoslovakia and  

• to achieve lasting world peace by calling for the  

withdrawal of armed forces in all areas of war and  

conflict throughout the world.  

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N.S.W. Teachers' Federation & New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation. (1919). Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation Retrieved August 14, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-717087370

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N.S.W. Teachers' Federation and New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation. Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation Sydney: The Federation, 1919. Web. 14 August 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-717087370>

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