London, Midlands, Yorkshire and North-East teachers to strike BIG SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL ACTION

for Fleet St, but not for us THE Communist Party of Great Britain has refused to supply the Workers Press with press credentials for a reporter and a photoSoaphoming congress at St to cover their Pancras Town Hall this weekend.

The entire Tory press has, of course, been invited, together with a number of weekly papers, including 'New Statesman', "Tribune' and 'Socialist Worker'. The conflicting excuses given by leading Stalinists for this almost unprecendented refusal do nothing to disguise the fear and hatred with which they treat the Trotskyist daily paper. Their adamant refusal admit our journalists to their Congress reveals the utter bankruptcy and thorough-going crisis of the Communist Party leadership.

The CP's action, of course, violates an elementary principle upheld by the National Union of Journalists-the principle that 'As the other papers are being allowed in this is a definite piece of political discrimination, which oppose.

In a way it is a compliment. It shows that the Communist Party is really afraid of what the Workers Press has to say.' R. Mitchell Convenor, Wilson and Mathieson Leeds.

I condemn the policy of the Communist Party for its political discrimination against the Workers Press in not allowing its reporter into the conference Ralph Day Communist Party AEF member Leeds.

cannot understand the allowance of the capitalist press, and people diametrically opposed to all that we stand for, being allowed to attend this conference to the exclusion of reporters from the ing for Marxist principlesand protest most strongly against this treatment at our hands?

Mick Reynolds, member, Shop steward at Lucas's Victor Works, Liverpool.

newspapers should be allowed equal facilities to cover functions that are open to the press.

it much more than this is involved.

le Stalinist organ 'Morning Star' has for a long time conducted a campaign in favour of CP candidates being given 'equal time' on television and has rained petitions on the government pleading to be given government advertizing like other national dailies.

nis campaign now stands ex› us raise the money for our daily pa TEACHERS in at least five areas decisions for strike action in the next against the Burnham committee's 850-a-year pay offer.

The Inner London Teachers' Association is calling out its 13,000 members for 24 hours on November 20. This could close most schools in the area.

Half-day strikes have been called in Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield and Local branches of the National Union of Teachers are organizing one day, strikos In the North-East. This was decided at a meeting • at Gateshead on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, there are growing demands for the NUT executive to stop playing at opposition to the Burnham -which it has described as 'totally unacceptable'-and call national strike action of an extended nature.

Teachers at 230 Sheffield schools are due to walk out this afternoon against the offer. The first of the NorthEast strikes—at Birtley Secondary School - is also scheduled for today.

Some 5,000 Birmingham teachers will stop next Wednesday, closing 450 schools.

In Leeds, more than 3,000 teachers will strike on November 24 if members of the NUT are joined by those organized in the National Association of Schoolmasters.

Reject offer Tuesday's Gateshead meeting voted unanimously to reject the offer of the Burnham committee and to support any action called by the NUT executive.

But local branches are organizing their own token actions.

The meeting was addressed by Jack Jones of the national executive, who said that they were planning strikes lasting two weeks in selected areas and that subject to this being agreed by a referendum of the entire union these would continue until such time as the full demand was paid.

Contributions from the floor showed clearly that members were extremely doubtful that the executive was prepared to fight all the way.

A call for national strike action to win the teachers' £135 claim was passed. by a large majority at a meeting of NUT members at Willesden High School on Wednesday evening.

Young Socialists Canning Town Public Hall doors open 12 noon Can you sew? knit? paint? make something for our Bazaar? give something towards our bazaar ? Have you a tin of grocery? jumble? p us make this the best bazaar ever h THE WORKERS' PRESS A pupils' 'guard of honour' for striking Bedworth, Warwickshire, teachera.

BEHIND AIRPORT MRS BARBARA CASTLE'S Department of Employment and Productivity h a s etamnad into the continnina steppeu ino we connuug dispute over the award of a ground-handling contract at London's Heathrow airport to a Canadian agency, General Aircraft Services Officials of the Transport and General Workers' Union and the DEP will meet to discuss the contract on Monday.

On Tuesday, the airport's shop stewards passed a vote of no confidence in the management of the British Airports Authority - which was responsible for awarding the GAS contract - and decided to maintain their 'black' on the agency, despite the issuing of solicitor's letters to three stewards alleging their action was illegal.

It is believed that GAS—a wholly-owned subsidiary of the US Hudson Leasing Corporation - is already in possession ot equipment which would enable them to service Boeing 747 jumbo jets and that they have concessions of apron space which would allow them to carry out this work.

If this is so, it would make possible moves to undercut other cargo-handling agencies when the present contracts run out.

Stewards point out that this would hit the smaller firms particularly hard.

Similar situation

The similarities between this situation and that existing on the docks in relation to containerization and the productivity requirements of the port employers under the second phase of Lord Devlin's 'modernization' plan have not been lost on airport workers.

Under the recently-published Prices and Incomes Board report on airport ground staff, they face demands for productivity concessions.

GENERAL

STRIKE GRIPS JAPAN TOKYO Thursday-Japan and its former island of Okinawa, now American - administered, were in the grip of a general strike today as workers protested at prime minister Eisaku Sato's visit to Washington next week.

The strike, expected to affect services in cities throughout the country, is the culmination of a week-long campaign against the visit by left-wing groups who want Okinawa returned to Japan.

Recently the army was called in to break a strike by 450,000 Japanese railway THAT Powellism opens the door to the extreme right was demonstrated very clearly on Wednesday by the news that two Wandsworth Tory councillors had joined the National Front.

The councillors resigned at the start of Wandsworth's council meeting because of 'disenchantment with Conservative policies'.

They took their seats as the first National Front councillors in the country and will stand for re-election as National Front candidates.

One of the councillors, Mr BY REPORTERS 'Shape of things to come' at Vauxhall?

THREE HUNDRED workers walked out of Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant on Wednesday as a result of two disputes involving the suspension of shop stewards.

Management suspended three rear-axle assembly stewards after Tuesday's dispute in the factory over a ruling that workers must not get change from a machine provided for this except during their two ten-minute teaTwo hundred men struck in protest.

When 100 stacker-truck drivers struck against the suspension of their steward on Thursday another 100 workers were sent home by the management.

Contacted

Stewards at the company's Luton plant were immediately contacted by the Ellesmere Port men with a report of both actions.

Workers see the suspensions as yet another attempt to tighten discipline in Vauxhall's factories. should be stopped.

Mr Mitchell is ike CZECHOSLOVAKIA council government.

THE WORKERS' council at the giant Skoda motor works in Pilsen has been dissolved because, according to the Prague News Agency, Ceteka, its existence 'objectively weakened the so-necessary leading role of the Communist Party. committees of both houses of the Czechoslovak parliament suggested today that the elements of the August 1969 law become a ermanent part of the valid aws in this country.

Originally the emergency laws were intended to lapse at the end of this year.

parcels traffic in many areas of the Midlands was halted on Wednesday by a strike of 1,100 drivers and platform workers.

Ten BRS depots in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Notting. ham, Leicester and Derby came out.

The strikers, members of and General 1Os.-a-week rise offer made as a result of management-union talks at national level.

posed as a particularly nauseating piece of hypocrisy.

Democratic rights, it appears, are all very well for the Communist Party, for the Tory press, for the 'left' Tribune, for the anti-Soviet 'state capitalists' of 'Socialist Worker' But for Trotskyists, for revolutionaries, no democratic rights, no facilities, no credentials, nothing but hatred and lies.

Stalinism is here exposed with the mask torn off.

Listen to William Wainwright, •Morning Star' assistant editor.

We rang this man to ask him his views as a journalist Nasser to visit Moscow PRESIDENT Nasser's three top political advisers are due to go to Moscow next week, it was announced in Cairo on Wednesday.

This news comes after the militant line adopted at the Arab summit meeting, which ended on Monday.

The Soviet bureaucracy is at the moment engaged in secret discussions with the British, French and US govern"package deal'. • and Nasser's ments on Middle-East delegation will doubtless insist in Moscow that no deal be made with US imperialism at the expense of the Arab people.

Libyan pledge

Military support for the Arab struggle against the Israeli Zionists was pledged in Cairo by the Libyan Defence Minister in a pre-recorded interview on Egyptian Colonel Adan Al-Hawaz said that his government was rebuilding its armed forces to play its full part in the struggle against Israel. There was not enough space in the conference hall to accommodate a Workers Press reporter.

He did not think this was a 'ludicrous' excuse.

He then went on to claim that the CP had 'invited all the nationals [with one vital exception-Workers Press] and some of the more important weeklies and Sundays'.

The facts about the Workers' Press application for credentials give the lie completely to the Stalinist fabrications about lack of space.

It should be pointed out in any case that St Pancras Town Hall has an estimated seating of over 1,000. According to Mrs Betty Reid, writing in the November 1 issue of 'Comment', the Stalinist weekly : 'When on November 15 our chairman opens our 31st The resolution, from one of Willesden's large comprehensive schools, now goes forward to the next meeting of the Brent (London) Teachers' Association. It was worded:

*This meeting : demands on the NUT executive: No compromise on the £135 claim. No strings to be attached to the award. No productivity deal. A date to be set for a reply from Burnham. If the call by the NUT executive for half-day and one-day strikes or special school withdrawals fails, then the executive shall call for a total national strike of indefinite duration if our just demands are not met. The setting up of a strike fund levy on all members.' Leicester teachers are to strike next Thursday for half a day.

There will be a NUT meeting and rally in the Town Hall Square and NAS members are being canvassed for support.

NAS members themselves held a lightning strike last Thursday at the Newparks boys' school.

A number f resolutions for national strike action have now been pasesd in different parts of the country. This shows that teachers are not going to be fobbed off with a compromise after ineffectual partial stoppages.