IAN YEATS NUT CONFERENCE CP and right thwart May 1 move

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April Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG. 'Jus Mr Hattersley sees a boom EDUCATION spending will be down by £100m on present igures by 1976, Labour's chief spokesman Mr Roy Hattersley said at a Party meeting in Scarborough at the weekend.

But, said Hattersley: 'For the next year and possibly two I believe the economy will expand; there is certainly a boom this year.

'Under the Conservative plan for education "A Framework for Expansion" a progressively PHASE TWO DEALS MEAN WAGE-CUTS FROM PAGE to 18 per cent during Phase Two.

frade union opportunists and the Communist Party are leading workers into the corporate state to suit their own political purNo May Day 'revolt' busmen LONDON BUSMEN yesterday slammed attempts by the Tory Press to whip up a "revolt' against the May 1 strike call.

The fight against the Tory state pay control was far more important than losing a day's pay, said men and women working through the national holiday.

And even if more than a day's pay were lost, the principle inA BID to swing the National Union behind the TUC's day of protest on yesterday by the union's right Communist Party backing.

Moving suspension of standing orders so that May Day could be discussed, International Socialist member Richard North claimed the Stalinist and right-wing dominated executive had decided not to strike without consulting the membership and even before they received formal notification from the TUC.

Executive member John Gray told conference all the signs were that teachers did not want to join the TUC strike.

He warned: 'Unless you want to reverse the decision already taken by our execuive, don't vote for the susension of standing orders.' It is known that no formal decision for or against May Day was taken by members of the powerful Communist Party faction at Scarborcugh, which includes the NUT president Max Morris.

SILENT Mr North told me afterwards: 'I have no doubt some of them voted against our resolution. • At the CP meeting on education on Sunday morning their speakers condemned "ultra-left adventurism"' Party speakers in the debate were silent and the motion was overwhelmingly rejected.

smaller share of national resources will go to The next Labour government will be a high public-spending government and spending on education will rise with the overall expansion of the economy?

Hattersley said teachers' pay would be reviewed to attract more staff of the right calibre into the profession. Student grants would be raised and there would be a return to Robbins standards of education with exposes. The dangers to the working class arising out of this are colossal.

The trade union leaders, backed by the Communist Party, are now working with the Tory government to inflict upon the working volved meant the strike should go ahead.

Fred Hobbs, Transport and General Workers' Union delegate at Chalk Farm depot, London, said his members decision to strike stood despite the fact some of them would lose up to £14.50 as a result.

"The Tories are trying to take away the trade unionists In an yesterday said: class a defeat consequences.

The only road for all trade unionists i the fight to expos collaborators and from the movement.

negotiate better wages,' he said.

At Dalston garage in London's East End, busmen will be meeting tomorrow to decide their policy on May 1. But George Rayne, a conductor, said yesterday that the union should be supported in its strike call. He estimated his standard of living had dropped by one-third since the Tories had come to power. you are aminst the preezee. l •It's a matter nrincipie. must support this strike?

of Teachers into line May 1 was thwarted wing-with passive The collusion between the Stalinists and the right-wing. both openly and tacitly, has now been stripped bare by their vote FOR the Tory pay. deal and their FAILURE to support the one-day strike on May • Day.

NORMAL hour-long address morning, general Edward Britton "There is a general belief that one day in the not to distant future we will get back to normal and have free negotiation between employer and employee to settle wages and rates of pay. 'Nothing could be further from the truth in this respect we will never get back to so called normal. 'We have all of us become so economically dependent one upon another in our modern i scientific, technological commercial society, that the old free-for-all no longer holds.

pansion at all levels, from schools to universities.

Asked how all this would be possible in view of the worsening balance of trade position, the world-wide flight from paper currencies and galloping inflation, Hattersley swept the doubts aside and repeated his belief that boom conditions were here to stay.

He added: 'If we have to spend on education at a faster rate than the economy is growing as a whole, then we will.' Hard now for to take up drive them take no stand 'If there is to be a wages policy, as there surely will be, it must be a just one' He warned that the country's 400,000 teachers were in for a 'rough time' because even a 5p a week per head rise would cost Elm public money.

But calling for conditions of service to be negotiated simultaneously with wages, he said there was a possibility teachers could win improvements 'on the side'.

Britton said the Burnham committee must be made to work as a real forum for negotiating all these issues.

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He announced the circulation of the discussion document outlining the executive's proposals for a new policy on salary negotiations.

He gave a broad and unmistakable hint that if the Tories stopped trying to beat the trade unions, for example, with the Industrial Relations Act, the unions would be ready to play their full part in "social reform'.

This year's teachers' conference has been one of the most crucial in its history.

The Stalinists have in some cases openly collaborated and in others allowed the right wing its head to try to purge the union of militants and lead it into the deadly embrace of the Tory corporate state.