Three anti-pay law teachers face expulsion

Victory to the teachers! Force the TUC to call a General Strike!

Make the Tories

resign!

MARCH 21 6.30 p.m.

Norfolk Room Caxton Hall Caxton Street, S Earl to head secret force Rail delay is timewasting THE DELAYING tactics used by the train drivers' union leaders in once again postponing industrial action in return for further talks at British Rail headquarters today will not put off a decision on drivers' pay for long.

The talks can settle nothing. The government is determined that there shall not be a single exception to the Phase Two pay laws. No matter how long-standing the grievance over a review of drivers' pay, British Rail has strict instructions to negotiate a £l plus 4 per cent deal for all railwaymen for 1973 and nothing more.

The threat Richard Marsh delivered on Friday to lock out the train drivers if their non-co-operation campaign did not stop was the real voice of the government and the employers. The five-four vote by the ASLEF executive to back down before this ultimatum is a move fraught with dangers.

On the one hand, it will encourage British Rail and the government to be even more ruthless next time. On the other, it will weaken the train drivers' determination and destroy any confidence they had in the union.

The railway drivers, who could have given a lead to the whole working class, are now faced with more time wasting instead of being given the opportunity to fight for their right to a decent standard of living which they are clearly willing to do.

Peron plea

GENERAL PERON has declared in Madrid that the new Peronist government in Argentina must 'strive for a government of national union capable of liberating and reconstructing the counThe urban guerrilla movement had now lost its 'raison d'etre': 'Once the causes have disappeared, the effects will disappear in turn, will the methods of violence?

13th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF YOUNG SOCIALISTS BLACKPOOL APRIL 14/15 1973 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, APRIL 14 & 15, WINTER GARDENS, THE NATIONAL Union of Teachers may expel three schoolmasters following disruptions at a Westminster Central Hall mass meeting last month.

Greenwich association secretary Roy Porter has lodged a complaint of unprofessional conduct against the three and the case is now before the union's THE TORY government has set up a special security committee he by Earl Tellicoe to deal with any 'national emergency'. It comprises h of the military, the secret service, Police and the be directly responsible to Prime Minister Edwar This is the first time in peacetime that ment has vested such vast martial powers in of a body not controlled by parliament.

The Tories have used the pretext of the central London bomb incidents to set up this body. The Press has been carefully fed with stories that the committee is solely in operation to deal with the possibility of further explosions when the White Paper on Northern Ireland's future is published. This is untrue.

The committee has been set up permanently, It has been given a full-time staff, special offices and a large budget authorized by the Civil Service Department, headed by Jellicoe.

News that the government had seized these wide-ranging security powers was given by the Home Secretary, Robert Carr, at private briefing with crime reporters late on Friday afternoon.

The story was 'leaked' to the Tory Press by Carr, thus by-passing a proper parliamentary announcement and the prospect of a debate.

When asked if the government had any evidence that bomb attacks were being planned for White Paper day, a spokesman said 'No' He said it was better to be prepared than sorry:

It then emerged, however, that the committee has been 'unofficially' meeting under Lord Jellicoe's chairmanship for at least a weak.

Its announcement was made only after the miners' executive voted unanimously to hold a strike ballot.

It is worth remembering that Jellicoe was made head of the emergency committee set up during last year's miners' strike.

This body was responsible for misjudging the mood of the miners, the support they would receive and mishandling the question of supplies.

This time, it seems, the Tories are going to war stations well in advance. They are determined not to be caught unprepared this time.

Law and Tenure Committee.

All but about 30 of the 2,000 teachers at the Central Hall meeting wanted to vote on a resolution drawn up by Wandsworth association calling for indefinite strike action against the Tory pay laws.

The three men under threat of expulsion from the union are all members of the Wandsworth a governthe hands The security committtee must be seen as a body similar to the Organization for the Maintenance of Supplies (OMS), the notorious group which co-ordinated the attack on the 1926 General Strike by the army, the police and a strong force of blacklegs.

But because British capitalism is today profoundly General St Tories will try to smash a weaker and desperate, the General Strike more ferociously.

And if they defeat such a national strike movement, they will push forward their plans for dictatorship over the working class.

One feature of the new body is its wide ruling-class representation. It will comprise military men and the police, plus senior civil servants who will maintain links with big business.

Carr has also invited private security firms to help in his plan to meet a 'national emergency'.

There's little doubt this call will be well received by the country's largest private army, Securicor, where Carr himself was a director prior to joining Heath's Cabinet.

Establishment of the committee marks a considerable victory for the policies of Brigadier Frank Kitson and a clique of reactionary army officers.

For more than two years Kitson has been arguing for a national command meeting in secret and accountable to nobody but the 'national interest' to crush the leadership and organizations of the working class.

See 'Hang subversives' and picket code—p. 2. : civil service and d Heath. Cllr Gerry Ross, one of the opponents of the Housing Finance Act in Hackney Council, speaking on Saturday. A CONFERENCE called to discuss the Tories' Housing Finance Act was staged by the National Association of Tenants and Residents in London on Saturday.

The Communist Party-dominated body was examining a 14-point programme "to The programme does not once mention the Tory government and its one 'socialist' demand is the 'nationalization of all urban land except that owned by owner-occupiers' It also contains pie-in-the-sky calls the building of 100,000 homes a year 'u London's housing problem is solved' ded •ads will Pie-in-the-sky housing plan 'OR TEL 01association. They are Fred Scott, Eric Porter and David Whitely.

They are charged with mounting the platform without authority and refusing requests to leave by the platform party and the chief steward; addressing the meeting by means of an unofficial public address system; removing the plugs from the official microphones and refusslam policy BEHIND the return-to-work vote by 400 ancillary workers at London's Whittington Hospital lay total disillusionment with union leadership.

Feeling among General and Municipal Workers' Union members was so high at Friday's mass meeting that a petition was circulated The petition, to be sent to G&MWU quarters, condemned the 'deplorable lack of ship and guidance by officials during the strike' so've London's housing crisis'.

DETAII LEPHONI 622 7029 ing to obey the chairman's instructions to sit down and refrain from reading the Wandsworth resolution.

Since the Central Hall meeting, at which the union's executive was forced to quit the platform, the council of Inner London Teachers' Association has voted for all-out strike action.

Hospital strikers which few refused to sign.

headleaderrecent Whittington was one of the few hospitals where workers voted for all-out, indefinite industrial action. Instead, say the strikers, they found themselves ignored and isolated.

Consultants, senior medical staff and volunteers broke workers' picket lines.

About 40 NUPE laundry workers were allowed to stay at their posts throughout the stoppage providing the strike breakers with their incentive.

Few, if any, of the ancillary workers at Whittington had confidence in the policy of selective industrial action to which the unions were committed. They hoped their example would push them to adopt tougher tacties. But it did not. The last straw was reached last Thursday when union officials told about a quarter of the G&MWU strikers they were not eligible for dispute pay because they had not been union members for more than six months.

Under heavy pressure from the strike committee, the decision not to pay was later partially reversed, but not before about 60 strikers had been • so disgusted that they decided to call it a day and go back to work. By Friday, feeling themselves defenceless against the bitter attacks made in the Tory Press and seeing no snowballing of support throughout the country because of the selective strike policy, the poorly-paid ancillary workers were ready to go back.

They voted by about three to one to end the strike and work to rule instead.

The decision was egged on by the rumour that, in any case, the strike would have to be called off once they become illegal under Phase Two of the Tory pay laws. Few at the packed meeting at Central Halls, Archway, on Friday wanted to go back.

But most believed that for unless a national : ill-out strike was called and : ill the ntil hospital unions acter gether, they could not win.

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