Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Friday 02 December 1921

School Teachers from The Unemployed!

At a meeting of the Wombwell Education Sub-Committee, Councillor C. J. Hall uttered some emphatic remarks on the question of the employment of married school teachers whose husbands were earning a livelihood in some other occupation.

Councillor Hall said that room should be made for the unemployed, and he warmly rebutted the idea that it was impossible to make school teachers out of men at present out of work who were adapted for the duties. Some of the unemployed had no prospect of work for ten or twelve months. Preference, he said, should be given to single applicants every time, and the married teachers should be got rid of as soon as possible.

The Clerk (Mr. Gibbs) said it was not possible to take a man out of the street and put him into a school right away.