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l APH' é FOR TEACHERS _ The increase in the minimum sal-- ary for teachers from $800 to $1,000 brought praise from a C.C.F. mem-- ber in the Legislature last night during a committee consideration $ of the School Law Amendment Act. A. A. Casselman, Nipissin, praised the Government for taking this step, but pointed out that $1,000 waslf hardly enough to maintain a prop-- er standard of living in some mu-- nicipalities. | An amendment to the Act per-- mits a school board, with approval of the Education Minister and the local municipal council, to include in its estimates sums which would be deposited with the Ontario, Treasurer to form a fund for fu-- ture capital expenditures. In ef--| fect, this would make the Province banker for school boards which! desire to be in a financial position i to go ahead with erection of school| Code of Ethics. , buildings after the war. | The act provides that every Premie: George Drew, in his vieacher shall be a member of the capacity as Minister of Education,| federation, and any teacher wxsh- explained that this would make! ing to withdraw from membership possible the construction and im--| may do so by notifying the Minis-- provement of many schools when ter of Education am}i.l the. board"?f the war ended. governors not later than six months Glad to See Federation. after the act comes.into force. ('iI'l:e k board of governors is empowered to | Mr. Casselman also congratulated A iA lhel G(o::'!o:nment on theg measurei L','ff'"",r(',b°(.f.'e;'f'f edggc?;l]miléir;orrzzzcl:: s g f f es $ oc in hnd ue anal | Nes mt erm Government Ministers would takel Board of governors consist of Roy: t £ r 'F. Bennett, Brantford; Lawrence D. a similar view of tbhe relations IMcCamus, London: Helen M Shep--| which should exist between em-- * t * 7 f ployer and employee. The member pard, North Bay; Mary A. MceDon-- {or Nipissing drew the attention of _ 3!". Roger St. Denis, Adelard Gas--, the Premier to the fact that the con and Lawrence _Kennedy Pgupore.i section dealing with the superan-- all of Ottawa; Winston Davies, St nuation fund in the School Law (ifl'hfl"'\'/;";( Ton W. Cawaed Crare * j Agnes Meek, John W. Ca 5 C1 ;\tr:sinec(lima,liltth ':d\,ie::,"%l;t co'::gcti:; R. Fallis, Stanley Hunter Henry an(j. a situation which had arisen in con-- Norman McLeod, all of Toronto; and nection with teachers coming to Margaret Lynch and Edward Arnoldv Ontario from Britain. Orr of \;'indsor. ; i '"Many excellent teachers come to "Forward--Looking.' 1 us from outside the Province, par-- The Teaching Profession Act, ticularly from Britain," said Mr. which passed second reading in the Casselman. "They find that the Ontario Legislature Tuesday night, superannuation benefits built up at was acclaimed yesterday by »offi-- home are lost when they come here, cials of Ontario teachers' organiza-- I think the Government would do tions as a "sane forward--looking well to consider doing something measure that will be mutually bene-- in this respect." ficial to teachers, educational au-- Premier Drew said he would be thorities and ratepayers of this glad to take the matter under con-- Province." sideration. Executive of the Ontario Teach-- The bill setting up the Teachers' ers' Council, Ontario Secondary Federation calls for the creatiop of School Teachers' Federation, On-- y a board of governors. The objects tario Public School Men Teachers' \of the federation are to prorpote and Association, and the Federation of !advance the cause of education, pro-- Women Teachers' Associations of \mote and advance the interests of Ontario, agreed that the act would |the teachers and to secure condi*) _ promote and advance education in |tions which will make possible the Ontario, raise the status of teachers best professional service, to arouse and attract the best men and women and increase public interest in edu-- to the profession, arouse public in-- cational affairs and to CO'OPE}'NGI terest in educational affairs, and with other teachers' organizations '"be the best friend a board of throughout the world having the| 'trustees could have." same objectives |