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Round-the-clock action for more pay

By David Maude

Workers Press no. 76, 14 January 1970 · scan page 2

Topics: Education, Post office and public services, Communist Party and Stalinism

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Inroucl Their and unions Sociali: Labour League and Young Socialists It brought together not ju: picket govt. offices STRIKING London teachers terday began pickets in sup of their £135-a-year pay e outside the Department of ployment and Productivity, Department of Education science and Iu Vowning Street.

Nationally, close on 5,000 members of the National Union of Teachers were in the second day of their fortnight-long strike at a total of 345 schools.

The round-the-clock picket outside Mrs Barbara Castle's headquarters was started by placard-carrying strikers from Walworth School, Southwark.

They will be relieved tomorrow by a team from a school in the Camden area.

Both the pickets and the march from the Greater London Council's County Hall headquarters to the DES, planned for next week have been presented by the NUT executive as a means for gaining the maximum publicity for the teachers' case during this 'third wave of strikes'.

A lobby of MPs is also scheduled to take place in eight days' time.

Publicity and the 'wise counsels of some teachers MPs -to which the official leaders want the rank-and-file to hitch their wagon-are, to say the least, fickle stars.

Many teachers are inyesport aim Emand creaurigly dissatisfied.. with what they regard as 'safetyvalve' policies from the NUT executive.

Even the long-awaited 'area withdrawals', much less national strike action, have not so far emerged.

Although many branches meet tonight to discuss proposals for area action, teachers point out that the executive is going to put this first to a referendum before bringing forward concrete As one London striker told the Workers Press:

'All the emphasis now is being placed in how "reasonable" the f135 claim is.

"They're saying "all we want to do is get back our 1967 living standards". The claim is, in fact, calculated on that basis.

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'At the same time, all the Desi Militant nurses demonstrate yesterday outside the Health Department's London headquarters, where the Whitley council was discussing their 27-54 per cent pay claim. () p1 COM TURS 'Trotskyite' activity claimed THE CZECH Ministry of the Interior announced on Monday that it had uncovered a "Trotskyite' organization which had OLINDALE PICI. W PORT N THE NEXT NONN, DEMANDS BETTER ONDITIONS FOR STUDEN NUASES

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