NUT disbands young teachers

THE NATIONAL Union of Teachers' executive has spike the guns of militant young teachers as their runs into heavy weather.

The teachers are expecting rise from April 1, but far the pane of the DuInham Committee has refused even to make an offer in deference to the government's pay policy. ord And Tory Education Secretary Mrs Margaret Thatcher said yes10,000 teachers who had lobbied her on Wednesday that even the offer of an extra £15 on the London allowance had now been withdrawn.

Thousands of teachers who turned out on Wednesday are saying price rises are so serious that they face drastic cuts in their living standards in the next few months unless wages are improved.

Now the NUT executive has scrapped the Young Teachers' annual conference and the Young Teachers' Advisory Committee.

Young teachers represent 60 per cent of the NUT's membership and in the past two years they have acted as a powerful ginger group behind the union bureaucer An amendment to retain the 19 mr den to the execute Advisory Committee was lost by Larry ureen told the executive that reduce the you g committee would reduce teachers ana buns affair'.

The NUT says the cost of the longer be justified. concerns of young and one alike une Leachin.

Should be dealt with wmein the union as a whole.

JOHN BENTLEY'S purchase of British Lion had resulted in the stripping of the major assets 'to make a killing out of the result'. Mr Maurice Edelman, Labour MP for Coventry, said in the Commons yesterday: 'Asset stripping in the form we have seen it at Shepperton is a pernicious deadly wrong not only to the individuals immediately involved, but to the social and economic health the nation.' DICTATORSHIP: Tory secret plan ready IAN YEATS ABOUT 30 men from Ford's Dagenham, Essex, blastfurnace lobbied talks of the national joint negotiating council yesterday morning to demand action over the threatened closure of the plant.

The 600 men involved had been told they will be offered alternative employment, but they are sceptical. Plant engineering steward Clifi Jerman commented: 'What alternative is there? After the last scare about Ford's and a party activist. and a party activist. forefront of this We 35-YEAR-OLI Taiwanese who fled the Unite d States after being convicted of an assassination attempt on Chiang Kaishek's son acted from purely political motives, it was said yesterday.

Cheng Tzu-tsai, an architect, was secretary of a political committee which considered the assassination plans, Bow Street court heard.

Cheng, who was convicted of the attempted murder of Taiwan prime minister, Chiang ChingWHO* NEXT 2 DONCAx it.. RAU! THUN 100y хота THE FORGE AVEL EY NOW THE BLAST FURNACE London, SW4 7UG.

kuo outside a New York hotel in April 1970, is fighting an application for extradition by the US government.

Cheng is fighting the new extradition order under a British law which says that a fugitive offender should not be surrendered if his crime was of a political character.

For Cheng, Mr Brian Capstick said the evidence showed that the murder attempt was from conception to completion a wholly political act. Evidence had shown that Cheng belonged to a cohesive and organized political party, he claimed.

Not political trial - judge NEARLY every police officer in the 'Angry Brigade' trial had been accused of improper conduct, said Mr Justice James on the second day of his summing up yesterday.

"This sort of thing, unfortunately, can happen. The question case, has it happened here? he told the jury.

Eight defendants, four men and four women, have been on trial six months facing between them nine charges including the unlawful possession of arms and explosives.

Mr Justice James directed the jury that the trial was not a political one. The defendants were not being tried for 'their political beliefs which happen to be contrary to those in governIt was not an offenci to hold views contrar to established government.

Labour 3RD ANNIVERSA THE GIANT Transport General Workers' Union is facing a massive bill for compensation in the National Industrial Relations Court.

After a private hearing yesterday, three haulage firms are to work out the losses they suffered because dockers blacked their lorries.

They are Panalpina Services of Hull; Heatons Transport of St Helens; and Craddock Brothers of Wolverhampton.

Court president Sir John Donaldson said that until now the claims for compensation had been adjourned. At yesterday's hearing technical directions were given to get the claims resolved.

Further technical direction would be given at a hearing on December 5.

Sir John said the black had been taken off Palanpina on October 24 and therefore injunction against had been lifted.

But Charles Craddock said after the hearing that his firm was still totally banned. He would not say whether more action against the T&GWU in the court would be taken, though I understand this is under active consideration.

The dockers have blacked Craddock's 'for life' after the firm accused two shop stewards and a union official of demanding money with menaces. The three were cleared of the charge at Liverpool Crown Court.

Heatons is partially blacked— containers stuffed or stripped by the firm are banned on the docks.

Any compensation awarded to anana Wilde goal but in the case of Craddock's and Heatons, it would be an interim order pending the lifting of the blacking.

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