The teachers in the Jewish Agency Schools in Palestine are again considering action to obtain payment of their salaries. Crowds of teachers are coming to the Jewish Agency offices every day demanding the payment of their salaries, which the Jewish Agency is unable, however, to give them. The Jewish Agency has been approaching the Government for the usual assignment to the educational budget of the Jewish Agency, but the Government refuses to pay out the amount in question before its suggestions tending to stricter Government control over the Zionist schools are carried into effect.
To-day the teachers have come to the Vaad Leumi in order to urge it to take up the question of their salaries.
The financial difficulties of the Jewish Agency, the result of which is that it has not been possible to pay the teachers in the Jewish Agency schools regularly, have repeatedly been the cause of strikes in the schools, the latest of which occurred in October, when the schools were closed for about a fortnight.
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