3,000 join teachers' pay march

Workers Press no. 1016, 8 March 1973 · scan pages 2, 3

Topics: Post office and public services, Education

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ALMOST 3,000 striking teachers marched through London yesterday against the Tory pay laws under which they have been offered an 'insulting' 28p a week extra on their metropolitan allowance.

Max Morris, NUT president-elect, claimed 'the widest spread yet' was supporting the union's threephase campaign of selective Twenty-one areas were represented on the march and members of the college lecturers' union, ATTI, were also taking part.

But in the ranks of the demonstration, which periodically broke into chants of 'Tories out!' criticisms of the union policy was widespread.

Teachers from most delegations said • they were in favour of all-out action now the selective strikes had failed to shift the governAbove left: Many of yesterday's demonstrators were young women teachers. Two arg Interviewed on page 12, along with hospital workers and gasmen.

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