U.S. troops alerted as Vietnam march date nears

Workers Press no. 34, 13 November 1969 · scan page 5

Topics: Vietnam and Indochina, Education, Post office and public services, United States

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CALLS for strike action by Manchester's 3,200 teachers were considered by a general meeting yesterday.

Like teachers all over Britain, they are incensed by the Burnham Committee's derisory f50-a-year pay offer.

A spokesman for the 13,000 Inner London teachers decided on Tuesday to strike for 24 hours on Novvember 20.

Teachers from Durham, Newcastle and Northumberland met in Gateshead the same evening to discuss half-day "first-reaction' strikes along the lines authorized by the National Union of Teachers executive.

One of the first such strikes took place in Corby, Northamptonshire, earlier on Tuesday.

BOTH OUT teachers at Nicholas Chamberlain Comprehensive School, to walk out in a protest yesterday afternoon.

In Sheffield it was announced that 230 schools will all be closed on Friday when the city's 3,000 teachers stage a half-day token strike and hold a protest meeting to plan extended strike action.

There is a growing feeling that, by themselves, such actions are inadequate. Reso.lutions are being carried for more extended strikes.

In West London, the NUT's Edmund's Secondary minimum without productivity "strings" is awarded.

'We also demand that the executive immediately set up an adequate strike fund based on a compulsory levy.

In view of the recent success of low-paid workers in their fight against the incomes policy we call upon By a London teache confidence in the NUT executive.

The union's West London Association also endorsed the first motion and sent it as an emergençy resolution to the executive, which had that day been discussing the interim pay claim with the Burnham Committee.

These negotiations ended with the executive turning THE US Defence Department announced on Monday that troops had been alerted in preparation for the anti-Vietnamese war demonstrations fixed for November 14 and 15.

At the moment, 28,000 troops are stationed in and around Washington, which will be the venue for one of the largest anti-war rallies.

Even this number is considered insufficient, as units more than 100 miles from Washington have also been put on standby.

This show of force is obviously intended to intimidate the millions of American students, youth and workers opposed to the Nixon government's imperialist policies.

The US army has failed to intimidate the Vietnamese people, and it will also fail to crush the mounting struggle against the war at home. Tube