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Schoolmaster J. H. Evans comes from Harrow, where men are men or soon will be. Last week in Blackpool, England, Evans led a fight in the National Association of School Masters against an equal-pay-for-women plank. Said Evans, in the argument that carried the day: equal pay is an “ambitious and egocentric demand of the feminist movement [with its] pernicious and damnable doctrine of interchangeability of men and women teachers. [It denies the] elemental right of British boys to be taught by men.”
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