ANOTHER POWER UNION ACCEPTS NORM

INDUSTRIAL afford to give in.?

While the appeal was being beard, 10,000 London dockers 1 appeal by 40 ster. Following Dockers' Shop and we cannot This threat must be treated with contempt. Only the greatest national unity and a determination to see the fight through will prevent the employers now cashing in on Devlin.

It is quite clear that, while the union leaders have been selling Devlin to their members, the employers have been steadily preparing for a showdown. They feel that the time is ripe to force speed-up and intensify discipline on the docks.

ABOUT TURN ON ACT Equity, the actors' union, which was granted deregistration from the Industrial Relations Act last November, has completely reversed its policy.

The 45-man governing council has voted by a narrow majority to apply for registration.

The union's about-turn is a policy of non-co-operation VC'S For non-co-operatoni with the Act and is bound to be deplored by many of the members.

Equity general secretary is Gerald Croasdell, who has had a long-standing kinship with the A national conference of the 174 electricity branches in NALGO instructed its negotiators to accept nothing less than the rise given to other workers in the industry. Manual workers recently received a 7}-per-cent award.

The conference also decided to demand the re-negotiation of recently-concluded clerical work THE National Union of Teachers has again written to . Margaret Thatcher, Secretary of State for Education and Science, in an attempt to get a firm commitment from her on the size of school The union wants a firm commitment to a declared objective of a maximum class size of 30 in primary schools.

On the latest figures (for January 1971), 27.4 per cent of all BASQUE and ers in Britain test outside embassy in Lc deportation nationalist France.

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But, in tact, the unions throughout the electricity industry have accepted the government's 7-8 per cent pay norm.

Frank Chapple's acceptance of the norm at the height of the miners' strike has now affected not only his own members but the NALGO workers as well.

primary classes had between 36 to 40 children and 3.3 per cent had over 40. So nearly one class in every three was well over the NUT's declared maximum.

The Tory Thatcher, however, remains unmoved. The NUT has released a copy of a letter from her dated January 25, in which she says there is no point in 'calldoing They are obviously already ing on authorities to start doing doing'.

The Pompidou government, working closely with the Franco fascists, has already deported one leader of the Basque nationalist movement ETA to Chile and other deportation orders are pending.

A group of young Basques are on hunger strike in a Paris church as a protest deportation threat.

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