NUT face further betrayals

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PRESS struggle against wage control, cuts The teachers' pay dispute may be referred to arbitration this week and the NUT leaders may well use this as an excuse to call off the "withdrawal of goodwill" due to begin on Thursday.

other main teachers union union does not even plan to start its industrial action until 8 Postponed A betrayal of even the pitiful action planned on pay (see last week's Socialist Press) would fall in line with a whole series of decisions of the NUT Easter Conference.

Already action on class sizes has been postponed until September 1980. Max Morris-ex-Stalinist NUT leader-has described this as "a great leap forward".

On racialism all action has been opposed outside attempts to achieve "multiracial harmony" by adjusting school curricula, etc (fascists can still remain NUT members!)

Further, women who form three-quarters of the NUT membership were for socialist revolon the left in and practice movement.

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Max Morris insulted when Alf Budd and Peter Griffin, NUT Executive members opposed conference motion calling for greater maternity provision with the argument that it failed to mention "wedlock" and gave "licence to continual fecundity" on the part of women teachers who, it was implied would remain in a state of perpetual pregnancy while drawing their salaries.

Teachers must now step up the fight against the coming betrayal on pay and draw the conclusion that what is needed is an attack on all fronts through the building of a new leadership against every betrayal of the NUT bureaucracy., iET SOCIALIST would like to 1 below.

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Having failed to sécure a vote in favour of calling off the strike at a meeting of the Garners strike committee the TGWU Region 1 bureaueracy have now effectively abandoned the strike for the duration of the election.

Their efforts at winding up the strike are likely to resume, however, once the election is over.

The strike committee is pressing ahead in defiance of the sabotage of the Region 1 bureaucrats with the calling of a TGWU delegate conference on June 9 to discuss the policies necessary to win this 15 month long strike.

This initiative must be taken up by TGWU branches who should demand that the Region 1 Committee give official backing to the conference.

The delegate conference also points the way forward for the other, even longer-running strike at Sandersons Forklift truck factory near Skegness, where the local union bureaucracy is also in the process of trying to call off the strike.

*The Garners Strike Committee are proceeding with a further Day of Action on Saturday 5 May. For details contact the strike headquarters, 12/13 Henrietta Street, London WC1= take advantage of this of Socialist Press. I ene Hill, ondon

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