HAMILTON HOUSE, beadquarters of the National Union of Teachers, was occupied by 500 militant teachen, lobbying the union's Action Committee on Thursday 23 May, to protest at their failure to call a strike for the London Allowance.
A meeting developed between militants from all over London, who discussed the next steps in the struggie. IMG militants argued that a commitlee based on those mistant schools which have taken strike action was needed to co-ordinate tbe struggles.
The (MG proposal was socepted in a purity vote, against the position of IS, so wanted their 'Rank-and-File grouping A mimber of ideas about how to carry atruggle forward have emerged.
tacheis in Hulland Park Comprehensive advocating mass rusignations from don schools. This kind of determins n to fight is just what i needed at Cent, but the weakness of this particular In that such action would not hite Prentice, the Education Secretary seen wavine the maric wand no the al Contruer" in an attempt to foreaction. He has said that a 'substantial' e in the London Allowance is on y, has orrerco an exua crub to schools in exceptional difficulty a promised a complete review of chers piy by Christmas 1974. In 1, teachers will benefit from the hit teachers" problems are not simply s of pay. Prentice himself has said is it will be impossible to eliminate L0 vc 10 0y 1780. 1n0-120001 ment is still carrying on with the educational expenditure of ETHO imposed by the Torics. Building es have been slashed, full and e stati. includine teachers and workers, laid off, and less money in Goverment expenditure have workers in education, local government and hospitals into struggle; it is necessary to build an alliance of then militants at the level of the rank-and-file, and to raise the question of the stacks on the social services within the working class movement.
Trade Councils in Wandsworth, and Colchester have already taken this op, and NUT branches in Leads and Sheffield have plans to call apen conferchees on. the crisis in education.
These conferences should not simply look at the problems which workers in the social services face, but should begin to campaien throwshout the whole working class for action. The dockers whe Plan stase action as part of the fisht to save Poplar Hospital, and the Candlen action-backed enquiry into proporty speculation are examples of what is London teachers are in an excellent postion to take up all these questers The meeting on Thursday took an aporSilitant teachers hold meeting inside occupied NUT headquarters basis of a technicality which might not apply elsewhere, bur it is likely to discover other 'technicalities in othor cams as well, the struggle in the hands of an Ad-Hoc Committoo, representing the militant action. A democratically dected strike committee is essential to provent the strugale being controlled and sold out by the union barcaucrats, It is absolutely diltorent from 'Rank and File" which is a political grouping withlo tie union and does not embrace all or those prepared to struggle. The failure of the International Socialsts to understand this wil tesult in them adopting a manipulative attitade having opposed the setting up of die committee. have sominated one of thei members as its convenor.
Many shoots are simply warmy or a kad. The next step for the Ad-Hoc CAnCER SLAT TOT STAt action, and begin the practical tasks of organising the necessary material and physical support to conduct the strugale of the refectory, supported by ASTMS a NEIPE, was started by the students.
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Photo: PETER HARRAP (Report)
NURSES -Over 1,000 nurses staged a demonstra tion in Manchester on Saturday. A large claim. contingent of "para-medical hospital staff (professional staff like radiographens, ete.)-who are not directly involved in the - Tos pa IMG militant Geoff Ryan brought a message from the Altrincham TASS ALEW branch calling for other workers to strike in support of the nurses.
Nurses at King's Callege Hospital in London elected a Joint Nurses Accion Commillee list Mondas, The CotniniLIca includes nanses in NUPE and NALGO. AUEW and TGWU Shop ste wands from the hospital, and a representative of the medical students union.
The Action Committee is calling a mass meeting of murses for today (Thursday) to mobilise for ibe 6 Jane national nurses' demonstration and to work our a discussion include a ban on work with Nurses have already been delegated by the Comisittee to speak at ancilbury worked union meetines, and Inks are пелто Ray nosta We ASca ancillary workers and doctors struck for an baur last Wednesday, Maudsley nurses were planning to strike again for two hours yesterday (29 May), in line with COHSE It is hoped to coordinate action in HE TAXI MIS AHO CHESTEC A TOIL march through South London to the The hospital administration have adopted a policy of trying to intimidate militane ourses, but they have bou ward OV AUEW shop stewards saint sen will shut down if there is any attempt to (Continued from front page) victimise nurses for taking action over the Nurses at Northwick Park Hospital in the Harrow arca are holding a nass meeting at the entrance of the hospital today (Thursday). They hope to involve other A public meeting, sponsored by the Harrow Trades Council, Harrow Students Union, the IMG, and the local Socialist Women's Group, is also being organised for today to set up a support committee Over 200 murses from West Wales Hospitals and students froch St. Devids College. Lampeter marched through Carmarthen on Sunday.
At the rally which followed the speech of local Labour Ml Gwynoro Jones was in sharp contrast to the words of numes spokeswoman Sister June Morris Jones told the natses, '1 know militancy has pald off in the past with the miners hut it doser't always work." He advised them to wait for the result of the GovernSister Morris said that the time had come to struggle, and warned the demon straton to beware of a sell-out by the boresuccuts on the Whitley Council A Union General Meeting at Sheffield University has passed a resolution suppor ting 'the nurses' action for a LI00m, pay setlement and any industrial action laken ny the trade paws men calcut so colone that the mures" claim is met in full' The resolution goes on to commit the union to take part in any support committee set up by Thie foral Boods movement, asks medical students not fo cover for nurses on strike, and unges students to take part in demonserations in support of the nurses.