TUC-TORY fire MINERS?

and Training ran into a and Training , ran into a barrage of criticism from hannana of mritiriem from teachers' organizations yes. terday.

The first major inquiry into teacher training for 30 years secret talks yesterday with the miner: it recommends cutting teachers off from • the mainstream of academic instituJoe Gormley and Lawrence Daly. tions. Non-university graduates would inevitably be classified as lower-grade teachers. week that Feather has teacher education launched a 'fresh initiative'. should reorganized three 'cycles.

The first is a two-year broad-based 'Diploma in Higher Education'. Teachers' unions yesterday 'strongly queried the worth of this qualification unrelated to other awards in higher educa- trade union movement to summon Tory. every union to The second 'cycle'-open to ight the government university graduates and Dip alongside the miners? HE holderscontains courses WHY HAS he consistently in educational theory and a efused to call together even year's practical teaching prac he transport unions to work tice ending in a BA (Ed.) out a common policy of halting coal, coke and oi degree.

shese questions pose an But the degree will be a second degree for university graduates. Feather The National Union of Teachers said • this reaffirms the superiority of the university degree and perpetuates the existing divisions in the Act against the miners profession.

The NUT calls for a comprehensive university education system, including schools as possible. of education.

so eager to engage in such a The report suggests an Minister Edward Heath himadministrative structure independent of the universities and with greater teacher involvement. n this strike will immediatels This can only confirm the teacher colleges' lower status and place their control in more conservative hands.

James' recommendation for great expansion of in-service training depends on considerably improving present staffing ratios. not too Final pointer to the think- wingers. ing behind the report:

'Choices will have to be made very between various ways of using or registration under the Act. diverting some the resources at present invested in the education and training of teachers' KREMLIN official policy. day's meeting TUC Finance and General Purposes Committee, Feather is frantically trying to postpone abel He Tories give the VICTOR FEATHER of the TUC was It is the third time in a As his despneuvres Britain's • the 18t dangerst In return for not using the But why should Feather be Tory Prime Because the use of the Act Use anti-union would mean a split in the TUC and it would create such militancy and anger law against office in with the notorious righthuildere_Neal Relations between the TUC and the government have now reached a critical stage on BUILDING employers Although a number of the large unions have agreed not were yesterday urged by to register, a sizeable minority Len Neal, Chairman of the Commission on Industrial these right-wing unions should Relations, to use the expelled for breach of Industrial Relations Act to prevent disputes on their •But as was shown at Monsites.

Commenting on the building industry's chaotic labour relations, Neal told builders lunching in London: 'A reference to the CIR is not a black mark. official assurance that they If your efforts break down and procedures get into a use the Act, the middle • • that doesn't registration mean you lack competence' mas year when the fill Tec Neal added: 'Time spent negotiating simple, effective and speedy procedures is time well spent'.

Building workers fighting union sites will note Neal's £1,036.32 other remarks.

He said employers should OVER THESE last six days, we understand that it was an unfair industrial practice to a big effort this week if we force a person to join a trade union or to refuse to work need to raise {213.68 to com. with a non-trade unionist.

In this situation there can e no sittina back Each day Feather and the TUC look fo DOCK STRIKE ATTACKED an opportunity to try and get Workers Pre back work.

Press Is vital in exPORT employers yesterday attacked today's unofficial hip must be bullt to mobiliz one-day docks strike as 'of no benefit to anyone, least of all the working class to force this the men'. The statement came from the chairman of the Bten up the campalan for National Association of Port January's Fund. Make sure Employers, George Tonge: this month Is our best yet.

Collect donations wherever you 186a Clanham Hlah St London, SW4 7UQ LEONARD NEAL, charman of the Commission on Industrial Relations, enters the Park Lane Hotel yesterday to talk to bullding bosses.

Transport and General Workers' Union official devised Britain's first real productivity deal for the Esso plant at Fawley, when he was working as an Industrial consultant for the petrol glant.

He denies his organization has called for a government inquiry into the system of statutory guarantees for dock jobs. But he participated in secret talks with union leaders about the scheme's abolition.

See page 3. Police force through S Wales picket line CONFRONTATION: POLICE OFFICER TRIES TO PERSUADE PICKETS TO LET OFFICE STAFF THROUGH LINE A 100-STRONG miners' picket yesterday turned away 200 members of the Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union from the National Coal Board headquarters in Llanishen, Cardiff.

arced their but adout /v non-unionists forced their way through the lines with the help of a large contingent of police.

Pickets complained they were kicked and shoved by police and white-collar Glyn Davies of Bedwas lodge said of the office 'Those ladies were definitely kicking. I think some of them had bother boots on.

'We had to stand there impassively and take it. We dared not retaliate because of the police.

If we had done anything they would have arrested us.

The miners were, however, grateful for the support of the CAWU branch. The previvus day their members had gone to work and held a meeting inside the building at which they had decided not to force their way through the miners' picket line.

Leading branch members yesterday appealed to clerical workers not to cross the picket lines, but to attend a meéting a nearby field instead. There, the previous day's decision was reaffirmed.

HIGH COURT judge granted University of Essex possession order forthwith against miners, saying they were occupying University without consent. Counsel said it was anticipated the order would have desired effect. If not, writ of possession would be handed to the sheriff who would eject any unauthorized occupant.

FEATHER DANGERS MINERS WARN MINERS in Ayrshire, Scotland, were yesterday warned about the dangers of 1926, writes STEPHEN JOHNS.

Scottish NUM executive member Jim Murray said that Victor Feather and the TUC had been a disappointment.

He said miners wanted to know why power workers and other unions did not draw their members out on strike to support the miners and their pay claim.

Murray was addressing miners from pits in S Ayrshire who formed the strike committee to organize picketing of Glasgow docks and power stations in the region. Derry clash is feared