| Main Performers | Miss Isabel Cleghorn (Chair, President NUT),
Mr Walter D Bentliff (Vice-President NUT),
Mis Millicent Murby (Civil Service),
Mr Ernest Gray,
Mr F W Goldstone MP,
Mr Marshall Jackman,
Mr Herbert Burrows,
Mr J W Bunn - speakers |
| Set List | Resolution (Mr W D Bentliff),
Seconded (Millicent Murby),
Speech (Ernest Gray),
Addresses (Goldstone, Marshall Jackman, Burrows, Bunn) |
| Performance Notes | This meeting was held to protest the Holmes Circular.
The meeting was held, "...against the conspiracy to exclude from higher posts in the public service all who have not been educated at one of the great public schools and the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, and also to protest against the slander on the teaching profession contained in the 'Holmes-Morant' circular."
(The Times, 1 May 1911)
"CIVIL SERVICE CONSPIRACY. TEACHERS' PROTEST. THE "HOLMES-MORANT" CIRCULAR.
Six thousand teachers and Civil servants uttered a strong protest at the Albert Hall last evening against the famous "Holmes-Morant" circular. The meeting was organised by the National Union of Teachers, and Miss Cleghorn (President of the Union) occupied the chair.
Mr Walter Bentliff moved a resolution protesting "against the prevailing practice of restricting appointments and promotions in the higher branches of the administration of the affairs of the Empire to persons who have received their education in the great public schools and Universities," and appealing to the Prime Minister to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into the question.
Miss Millicent Murby, representing the Civil Service, seconded the resolution. The competitive systems, she said, had given them the finest Civil Service in the world, but in the higher appointments they had the old systems of patronage in full swing."
(The Observer, 14 May 1911) |