ACCEPT TORY PAY BOARD

TEACHERS IN CONFERENCE FROM IAN YEATS IN SCARBOROUGH THE 235,000-STRONG National Union of Teachers became the latest major union to accept a wage deal within the limits of the Tory state pay laws at its annual conference here at the weekend.

Not only did the Communist Party faction vote for acceptance, but the union's new Stalinist president, Max Morris, helped draw up the executive recommendation on pay.

He is also the man who will tell the employers at the Burnham committee that his members have agreed to a Tory-dictated offer of a £127 a year flat rate pay rise.

ATTACK

Morris went on to launch a vicious attack on the youngest and most militant section of the NUT who have been demanding a fight against the government pay norm.

So in the first major test of Cornmunist Party leadership in the battle against the most vicious Tory government since the war the Stalinists opted for collaboration in Tory plans for the corporate state.

On Saturday the executive fought to have struck-out from a pay resolution a vital paragraph calling for a new 'vigorous public campaign' for a 'substantial flat rate increase'.

Instead they proposed their union's pay "case' should be drawn up by experts at Ruskin College trade union research unit-presumably to be followed by submission to the Tory Pay Board. A MO OLD 548K Islanders plan anti-oil armada see p.6, 7 & 12 But only about a dozen of 2,000 delegates at Scarborough Spa yoted for the Ruskin amendment, inflicting an overwhelming defeat on the leadership.

Leading the attack, Leeds delegate Mr W. Scott hit out:

'In essence the executive amendment tells conference it is not capable of deciding its own wages structure. It can only be that it wants to side-track conference on the next pay claim.' The Tory laws cast a heavy shadow over the conference and in the absence of any real leadership delegates were paralysed by the government's abolition of the traditional methods of free collective bargaining under Phase Two.

In the two days of debates, teachers complained bitterly about step rises in the cost of living.

It was claimed that although the vast majority are dissatisfied with their pay, they now see no way of achieving rises above the government norm.

Ever since being forced to flee the platform at Westminster Central Halls, London - all but about 30 of the 2,000-strong audience voted down a milkand-water resolution ending the campaign on the London teachers' pay allowance-the Stalinists and right-wing-dominated leadership have been gunning for the militants.

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'EDUCATE'

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