No lead at teachers' march

ABOUT 15,000 teachers marched through London yesterday in a monster demonstration a gainst the Tory decision not to increase the special London allowance by more than £15 per year. Savage sentence PAUL STOREY, the 16year-old Birmingham boy sentenced to 20 years' detention for attempted murder, was yesterday sentenced to a further 20 years for robbery!

The swingeing sentence— to run concurrently with the first 20 years-was handed out by Mr Justice CroomJohnson at Birmingham Crown Court for stealing five cigarettes, a bunch of keys and 30p.

Two other 15-year-old boys charged with Storey for the robbery — Mustafa Fuat and James Duignan-were given the same treatment. The judge ordered 10 years' detention for each to run concurrently with the 10 years each were ordered to serve on Monday for causing grevious harm to their victim.

After spending two days in Winson Green Prison, the three boys were brought back to court yesterday to bear the judge say that it had 'occurred to him' after Monday's adjournment that he had failed to deal separately with the robbery count. • Fuat's father, forry driver Mehmet Fuat (45), said afterwards: "This sentence is absolutely savage and the whole family is deeply upset. We are appealing immediately. There is nothing else we can do.' But The march, which at one stage stretched from Speakers' Corner to Centre Point, was so long it had to. be split in two by police to keep traffic moving.

Scores of pupils from 3,000 schools in London shut down by the one-day strike turned out to help teachers distribute leaflets.

Max Morris, National Union of Teachers president-elect and Communist Party member, told me emphatically before the march that there will be no mass meeting afterwards to mark the end of the union's four-week campaign.

'It is just a demonstration,' he told me angrily. 'Nothing else.' Meanwhile the NUT executive has been circulating its local associations informing them that it has decided not to support the TUC's call for 'a national day of protest and stoppage' against the Tory state pay laws.

A spokesman at the NUT's London office yesterday refused to give any reasons for this decision.

The executive apparently believes it will succeed in a plea to Maurice Macmillan, Tory Employment Secretary, over their London pay allowance claim.

Macmillan has made clear will be no special cases Phase Two.

Yet before yesterday's demonstration moved off from Hyde Park NUT officials warned against carrying placards asking for anything more than a rise in the London allowance.

No political slogans were carried or shouted. The vast majority of teachers were bewildered by the NUT executive decision to end the campaign yesterday with nothing apparently gained.

In the absence of leadership from the executive many said they could see no way of continuing the campaign.

London's 36,000 teachers are demanding a £300 special allow-