Workers Press no. 39

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

London port workers reject Devlin plan

BY DAVID MAUDE

LONDON'S

port workers voted in postal ballot yesterday to reject the second proposals for stage Lord Devlin's 'modern- 17ation scheme. Dock bosses hadhoned to achieve the end of piece.

and flexibilits plete mobility of labour, shift-working stricter aiscipline basic rates, the betad offered and £36 a week. 10 0 Do one in the por the port's convosed docks Kely opede dock share com Other disputes Man on erse side yester bean where teading The strike, at the Port Liverpoo was in an award for work • The men refuse dire accept trawler But BR inion Rugby guard hire polices sealed vale ent anti-apartheid workers press

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 39

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1969

Italy: "A pre-revolutionary situation' says government minister

20 MILLION

HOOVER

MAR 11 1571

INSTITUTION

STRIKE

TWENTY MILLION workers went on strike throughout Italy yesterday in support of demands for cheaper and more plentiful housing.

hit strike the every sector of the

BY ROBERT BLACK

Moon-walk economy. he is Point abou Apart from the main delayed industries and transpor which have been tie unemployment now alter a of large - scale les man evere taking centre strike actions over the place at the moment. perfect last three months, the also affected stoppage landing Outburst Scene at the Milan Pireili plant during the recebt strikes which have been a build up to yesterday's action food supplies, mail and newspapers.

BY PETER READ

and hest tonate right Radio and television Another step outburst THE wo us astronauts, were also totallies Char es conrad and Alan drastically cut. Bean, yesterday became the m speculation third and fourth men to set Minister Labour, aled with rici foot on the moon. Carlo Donat, towards elements, have been working class the E.E.C. wing member ofthe lent deteriorated The situation sull uriner. spaceciall Milan wednesday-Hundred doWhe spacecraft landed right Squeeze THE AGREEMENT for scientific and techno- logical between Britain and the co-operation, 6223 Common Market accepted he care in Api 965, in Counties Was Ull house Tuesday on behalf of the government by Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart.

Retrieve parts another By a Workers Press represells Comrad and Bean a motore step towards British entry correspondent into the Common Market. Standardization of tech- niques ana equipment wilbon his carbin computers, telecommuni F232 cations transport metallurgy — tour the fields of research involved if the merge with Europe. All Trades Unions the Appernment Stronger Alliance Encouraged ach Apoll companied by contro said to hae meetings dard ine Governor of the Launched in weather co was ouray ds soon as topies. to take on the working class

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employers Report back from the Motor Workers' B.S.R. pickets stand solid conterence Thursday, November 20 6 D.In

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one rope against a sell-out United States Park Socke oray after Kilbride a de yesterda built on its ruins. no strike

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From our own correspondent strikeal are "The Workers Press'

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ser working bay ther Thursday November 20 The taco doorde cabs than unio

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Miners' of the Lessons on several onand nembers had to as Strike' Accondian age Ar power Saturday, November 22 Police had to sus electricity 12 noon sat win a tale the workers Paris distri- by the u, ba. nution centren. occupying Two Yorkshire Miners Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. LATEST: London teachers-both trade union members

BRENT: NO

and non-unionists-strike todav in protest against the Burnham committee's 'derisory' £50 pay offer.

COMPROMISE

Schools on Merseyside and in Newcastle-on-Tyne are also expected to close. 141 teachers at a dozen

BRENT

Teachers' Associa- tion is demanding that there North-East schools struck yesterday.

claim, that no 5,000 Birmingham teachers staged half-day walk- strings attached the and OuS. Tune evi National In Cornwal. 1.400 teachers came out. Other areas members affected were Staffordshire, Crewe, Enfield, Bexhill and set up. schools Ipswich while a full-day's strike of 500 Basildon teachers Five have already volunteered for hit 73 schools. from December It reported The strikes are to continue up to December 1, 80 that schools in selected

SUIT

when two-week schools are

DOLOULD

Newnam scheduled to begin. a so volunteered. By our education correspondent TEACHERS must win their interim claim for £135 in full and without productivity strings.

Quite apart from the poverty being endured by young teachers, the claim occupies strategic import- ance. If the teachers do noi win it - and it win requires at least a full-scale national strike-the flood- will be opened for aLes of teachers con- tracts, productivity deals, divide and rule by 'special and rationaliza. payments tion of the entire educational structure The unprecedented wave teacher local level shows that teachers must beware that these struggles are not 1tillzed paragining counter shabby Ine union leaders in a and netravall cettlement Indeed the NUT bee collaborating with the authorities (LEAs) working party contractual donations teachers since 25 meeting detonar of

NUT

executive, the the representative Northern Tohn Alderson, englandl raised the question of report appearing in 'The Times in ement had been reached those SuD-com mittees ! cetst strikes which have been a build up to yesterday's action.

Stabilization Capitalism throughout Europe

GREET

and A merian Derately trying to stanilize itc system totterina through the ware union laws cuts social services : Wilson govern- ment has : the support resute local authorities. As at four public meetings 1,600 volng teacher re memo over according to Detcher 177 une eacher See the film of the first issue being prepared and A holished marine printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' sizes and called for more class and mobility by flexibilit teachers. Cut the school buildins programme series package to satisfy the international bankers Friday, November 21, 8 p.m.

nced local authoritias in crippling debt by an 8 per Northgate Hall, St. Michael's Street cent hant woto Increased the price of school meals. ince Wican'a Tory 'Black Paper'

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are calling for introduction fee secondary ducation Sunday, November 23, 7.30 p.m.

There is enough straw blow- ing the Wind to cep the Partick Burgh Hall kind of deal the emplovers government are and the (nr. Merkland Street underground) manoeuvring for in the near future. 'The Guardian' editorial of Were Perie of their A revi whole

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pay struc- ture. (Our emphasis.) 'More incentive' Sunday, November 30, 7.30 p.m.

'One result might be County Hotel, Neville Street recommendation tOr more incentive payments for of teachers Needless to say this would b

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for everyone.' The editorial goes specion increasing Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m.

for teachers in 'educa ances Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant tiona brioritu areas Daily Telegraph' "he Adi. torin of Noramhar 12 followe Speakers at all meetings will be : suit: them encourage the discussion of additional MIKE BANDA (Editor of Workers' Press) work SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the presence particular educational Young Socialists) ties, seniority awarde •TOr who canine fol teachere

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE'

BY DAVID MAUDE

LONDON'S

port workers voted in a postal ballot yesterday to reject the second- stage proposals for Lord Devlin's 'modern- ization' scheme. Dock bosses had hoped to achieve the end of piece- work, a new system of em- ployment on the docks, com- plete mobility and flexibility of labour, shift-working and stricter time-keeping and discipline. In return, they had offered between £25 basic rates and £36 a week. Even if the terms were ap- proved, the employers would need to gain acceptance from the other docks union-the National Amalgamated Steve- dores and Dockers-before full implementation. And the NASD points out that 2,000 dockers out of the 10,000 working in the port's key 'enclosed docks' are com- pletely opposed to shift-work.

Other disputes Meanwhile, a new dispute began on Merseyside vester- day—where an interim pay agreement leading up to Phase Two was recently accepted by most dockers.

The strike, at the Port of Liverpool Stevedoring Co., was over an award for work- ing in tanks. The men refused to accept a Is. 6d. an hour offer. unload 'Bobbers' - who trawlers—went on strike over pay at Hull yesterday morning and there early was no morning fish market as result. Dockers working British Channel Rail ships the to Islands at Weymouth, Dorset, continued thei strike over nours vesterday But BR hoping to were resolve the dispute after talks with union officials.

HUNDREDS of Monmouth- shire police sealed off narrow roads leading to Ebbw Vale yesterday to rugby ground prevent anti-apartheid demon- strators disrupting the after- noon's versus Springboks Gwent county rugby match Once again Labour shows it will use state forces to main- Vorster's tain relations with apartheid regime. workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 39

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1969

Italy: "A pre-revolutionary situation' says government minister

20 MILLION

HOOVER

AK 111571

INSTITUTION

STRIKE

TWENTY MILLION

workers went on strike throughout Italy yesterday in support of demands for cheaper and more plentiful housing.

The strike hit

BY ROBERT BLACK

every sector of the Moon-walk economy. delayed industries and transport, after a wich nave " Deed of large - scale centre taking perfect strike accons over unt place at the moment. last three months, the also affected landing stoppare Outburst food supplies, mail and newssabers

BY PETER READ

And when Donat refers to Another step Radio and television dy in Italy will know also programmes yesterday became the arasucally cul months DcaLL, third and fourth men to set Minister Labour, towards Carlo root on me moon. Donat, once walk on beetna their s*-nou leader oI the carnolle trade unions, made a plea concessions tor working class before tionaritin the E.E.C. deteriorated the ruling further. wing' were at the Squeeze THE AGREEMENT for scientific and techno- with police here reported Britain and the logical co-operation, between Killed тооп тоб Common Market countries was accepted on anded in Tuesday on behalf of the government by Foreign in April Secretary Michael Stewart.

Retrieve parts when represents anolael By a Workers Press demon StOt step towards British entr marci correspondent into the Common Market. ry after a track through Standardization of tech- strike and equipment niques Wiinto telecommuni narcain Markeless jass. orders: Commor Computes, transe of so the cost to blee melalursy

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nelas or research involved union —s a necessary pre minary it the british market is to merge with Europe. All Trades the rs of • on leading sectors" big business Unions Stronger Encouraged Alliance ans re financial 1.21 meetings sure in over de weather cond

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Motor workers B.S.R. pickets stand solid Conference' Thursday, November 20 8 p.m. against a sell-out oh rope list Pare soare

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From our own correspondent

FRENCH

"The Workers Press' nounced tie comm Thursday November 20 union

POWER

7.30 p.m. 53 Bever ey Road

STRIKE

They subjected to

OLLERTON (NOTTS)

FRENCH electricity of the Miners' "Lessons he strike newly-started during members had strike Saturday, November 22 Police had to aust ele for he nimon IL nOon sat in ate the workers Two Yoreshire Miners of the The daily organ Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. LATEST: London teachers—both trade union members

BRENT: NO

in protest against the and non-unionists-strike today Burnham committee's 'derisory' £50 pay offer.

COMPROMISE

Schools on Merseyside and in Newcastle-on-Tyne Teachers'

BRENT

close. 141 teachers at a dozen are also expected to

CASSOCR

that there tion is demanding North-East schools struck yesterday.

no compromise on the 5,000 Birmingham teachers 'staged half-day walk- strings b award outs. strike fund le National on all In Cornwall, 1,400 teachers came out. Other areas the member. affected were Staffordshire, Crewe, Enfield, Bexhill and Union of Teachers be area Ipswich while a full-day's strike of 500 Basildon teachers rive

SCHOOS

the volunteered for have already hit 73 schools. December two-week from is in ted The strikes are to continue up to December 1, some when two-week walk-outs at selected schools are of have borough scheduled to begin. a1S0 volunteered. By our education correspondent TEACHERS must win their interim claim for £135 in full and without productivity strings.

Quite apart from the poverty being endured by young teachers, the claim occupies strategic import- ance. teachers If the do not win - and win it - requires at least a full-scale national strike-the flood- gates will be opened for of teachers' con- tracts, productivity deals, divide and rule by "special pavments' 200 Ta012 172- tion of the entire educational structure. The unprecedented wave of teacher shows that teaches local level want to fight. they must beware that these struggles are not utilized bargaining Counter mie union eaders in a chahhi and productivity detraval settlement. Indeed the NUT has bees collaborating with the ocal educatior authorities (LEAs) one contracts to party contractua obligations of teachers ber 25 meeting Shace At the October of the executive Northern representative of Alderson, England, raised the reports that an ement, reatened mittees ! colt strikes which have been a build up to yesterday's action.

Stabilization Capitalism throughout Eurone erately aring to stabile des- and A memos

GREET

totterinc system through the anti- cuts services ment has : • Cut the rate

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grant local at four public meetings diorities ¿sOuvoung teachers are unemn over laccordina fa "The Teacher', October 17) See the film of the first issue being prepared and Abolished maximum printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' class sizes and called fo mor mobility flexibility and by programme serted the backare satisiv ternationalhankers Friday, November 21, 8 p.m.

local authorities in crippling debt by an 8 per Northgate Hall, St. Michael's Street cent bank sed the price of school meals. CloseR Wilson's heels, Tory Black Paper calling for ter secondary payıne Tor education. Then is ning tose te Sunday, November 23, 7.30 p.m.

wind kind deal the employers Partick Burgh Hall the governme are (nr. Merkland Street underground) In the nasi Guardian' editorial of Nom Perien calls feir longe their Tent review whole pay struc teachers' ture. (Our emphasis.) 'More incentive' Sunday, November 30, 7.30 p.m.

might be "nA recommendation County Hotel, Neville Street more incentive popular for everyone! (Our emphasis.)

The editorial goes on to call for increasing Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m.

• checial ances for teachers in 'educa- Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant Speakers at all meetings will be : them encourage the discussion MIKE BANDA (Editor of Workers' Press) ments for teached on pect of additional SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the to work in schools presenting peti Senioducatiowardi tr Young Socialists) seniority awards teachers acquire official

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in the meantime'. Outlook for Friday and Satur- spells Fresh Vistrotest west of productivity With showers or longer period rather an a nAW Contrartial terma old. maxi come is contained also chiery in Last and Soupells sunny Maureen O'Connor's England : Showers. 'Guardian' piece on November sunny '' The west e case fargem number en Mid- Sander attered, tives lands: substantial salaries will be N. Tireland: Shoes or spells. Fresh west to area. put of sleet next rune roun + wind. Rather cold. when the present simmer no (45F). snoW particularly over discontent Amons the Tant high ground. Strong wAct and file may have been slightly Maximust i (4.F) Rather cold.

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ten years have four major reports on education. Each one glorious four primary out every One seven primary out of every 50 10 50 supposed and form of highe only per group gets Ally remer any nu rsery £13 a week people that botn he ucatione ao pointed people mendations the time government also intended Implement al drive towards these he commissions the system entire late 1950s. repot ot iS. adequately. was ine larenica such wider of education kind of test not and nected background. this brian country Deutsc United educational classes middle-class the upper tended streams working-cl the when their were I middle-class cent sucans and working-class children len working-clas taken Tron Ine rome few character, This because they inadequacies system. Education of the labour power, especially highly- skilled labour power, there is bound to be concern over the of education within quality capitalism. This. was becoming more acute at the end of the 1950s because the Russians were clearly ahead in the technolo- gical race. It came to a head in 1961 when the Russans shook the West by sending Yuri Gagarin into space. The cries against wastage of talent, inferior education, lack of university places, etc. be- came a crescendo. This was the background to the spate of reports - The educational Crowther Report, '15 to 18' aspects of dealing with all pub- secondary education, lished in 1959; The Newsom Our Future'. 'Half Report, dealing with secondary modern schools, published in 1963; Robbins The Report on 'Higher Education' published in 1963; and The Plowden 'Children and Their Report Primary Schools', published in e the • 1967. These were serious reports intended to solve serious prob- lems on behalf of capitalism.

than a tiny fraction of their proposals reveals two things.

First, the complete inability of capitalism to solve its social problems; and second, the basic fact that with the end of the economic boom there is no longer the same demand for the commodity • labour power. Therefore captalism is not prepared to invest the neces- sary finance in producing it.

It does not matter if a quarter of the 15-year-olds cannot read if you do not want them in the factories anyway. Change of heart A glance at the main re- commendations of these four reports and at what has been done about them will prove that there has been a change of heart about investing cash in training labour power.

THE CROWTHER REPORT

said that the school-leaving age should be raised to 16.

It called for extended courses in secondary schools for half the 15-year-olds by 1969 and ultimately for all of them.

It urged that half the 16-18- year-old group should be in full-time higher education by 1969 and that there should be compulsory part-time educa- Middle Class Upper % at Test scores at selective eleven secondary school years 40-1 54 or less 55-60 80•3 99-0 61 and over QUANTUM theory-the laws of motion of matter at the atomic and sub- atomic level-has prob- ably had more impact on mankind during the 70 years since its beginnings than any other physical theory. The study of processes which take place in times so short and within regions of space so small that they are almost inconceivable in 'everyday' terms has been responsible for the develop- ment of techniques and com- modities that are taken for granted in •industrialized countries. Television, fluorescent light- ing, X-rays, photoelectric cells, nuclear power stations, lasers and many other discoveries all became possible as scientists began to understand the laws of motion of minute entities— the fundamental or elementary particles-travelling at nearly 186,000 miles an hour, the speed of light, in a vacuum.

Grasped At the turn of the century science was clearly on the brink of major developments.

Cathode rays, photoelectricity, radioactivity and X-rays were new phenomena which could not be explained by the old Newton's laws of theories. gravitation and particl motion, which for 250 year: had provided the theoretical basis for bourgeois science now proved inadequate. The mechanical materialists who believed that Newton had said the last word and that the richness of the objective world could be reduced to a few fixed building blocks and exhausted by a set of simple equations gasped like a fish out of water.

As late as 1897, Lord Kelvin, a giant in the world of physics in the latter part of the 19th century, still wrote that the idea that 'electricity is a con- tinuous homogeneous liquid' (rather than having an atomic structure) deserved careful consideration. tion in county colleges for all those not going on to full-time higher education. In addition it recommended that there should be increased grants for third year sixth- form students, that the teacher- pupil should be main- ratio at 1: 17, or at worst tained 1: 19, in secondary • schools that special attention and should be paid to poor areas.

Ten years later, what has happened? higher school-leaving The age has been approved but not yet put into practice. Moreover, nothing has been done about providing more teachers, equipment or build- ings for these pupils. the The result is that secondary school teachers see only the prospect of oversize classes of bored, mutinous 16- year-olds in addition to the existing oversize already classes of bored, mutinous 15- year-olds. Exam pressure Understandably many of these teachers are opposed to Working Class Lower Upper Lower % at % at % at selective selective selective secondary secondary secondary school school school 17-0 10-2 7.9 65•9 49-8 51•6 93-9 96-3 92-3 He was proved wrong the same year when J. J. Thomp- son performed his celebrated experiment which determined the ratio of the charge and mass of electrons in cathode rays. The electron was the first elementary particle recog- nized by man. The brilliant achievements of the classical mechanics of Newton and the Faraday-Max- well theory of electromagnet- ism, elaborated in the 19th century, brought to a close the era of classical microscopic physics. These theories were now seen not as eternal truths, but valid within well-defined limits that man had discovered in his struggle to conquer nature and grasp objective reality. New qualities Provided we deal with dis- tances greater than the atomic radius (one hundred millionth of a centimetre) and speeds far less than that of light, classical physics suffices. Outside of these bounds new qualities emerge and new laws have to be formulated to en- compass them. governing The new laws raising the leaving age, seeing it as a pie-in-the-sky proposal by theorists who don't have to do the job. All that has come out of the Crowther Report is the Certificate of Secondary Edu- cation which intensifies the examination pressure on the schools and paves the way for a return to payment-by-results, a tendency which is already be- ginning to assert itself, as was discussed in a previous article in the Workers Press. THE NEWSOM REPORT on the secondary modern schools also recommended that the school-leaving age should be raised to 16—and set a date: September 1965. atomic phenomena-quantum theory-were developed in the The basic years 1901-1926. of structure the atom-a central nucleus, one billionth of a centimetre radius, sur- rounded by a number of elec- trons-was established experi- mentally and with the new theoretical weapon a deep in- into sight was gained • the nature of chemical reactions, radioactivity and ionization processes. The development of quan- tum theory brought with it fierce theoretical conflict. What light did it throw on the nature of objective reality?

Conclusions The orthodox reply which gained dominance during the 1920s represented a retreat into the marsh of subjective idealism. The main conclusions can be summarised as follows: (a) The object of the theory is not to describe the be- haviour of things but to build up a mechanism which gives the results of experiments.

(b) Outside measurement no knowledge is possible. (c) Uncertainties that occur

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It called for intensive re- search into the teaching of pupils whose abilities were artificially depressed by en- vironmental and linguistic handicaps and for special Paid attention to be to educational problems in slum areas. ( It urged that slum schools should be replaced and over- crowded schools extended.

It pleaded for extended pro- visions for practical subjects, more television and language- teaching equipment and more audio-visual aids. Next to nothing of this has been done. The raising of the school- leaving age has been postponed to 1970-1971 and is likely to be postponed again. Some local education authorities have tied this in with the changeover to com- prehensive schols, so that both will be postponed together.

• It is obvious that none of proposed improvements the could amount to much without an increased teacher supply.

The situation here is anarch- istic. Unemployment is growing qualified teachers among at the same time as an estimated deficit of 40,000 teachers by 1972—16,000 of them in (or rather, not in) the secondary schools. These figures - taken from the Report of the National are not due to the perturbation caused by the measuring appa- ratus or man's ignorance of some more detailed behaviour.

Knowledge is of a probabilistic nature and represents ultimate knowledge. The conclusion is reached that it is meaningless to talk about an objectively existing world at all. All we can be sure of is a number on a dial when an experiment is performed. Lenin in "Materialism and Empirio-Criticism' (1908) mer- cilessly attacked Bogdanov and others in the Bolshevik Party who were embracing the same idealistic position in the period of reaction following the defeat of the 1905 revolution. He called them 'god-seekers', for such a position was a rejec- tion of Marxism and opened the door for some outside force always beyond man's grasp. Symposium Inevitably, the theoretical battle theory over quantum reduced itself to materialism versus idealism with the ideal- ists performing many of the classic contortions. Here is an extract from a discussion held at Bristol Uni- interpretation in the philo- sophy of physics. •Vigier:.. I do not think that things which exist are things which might have been observed. This is where the split comes in a very clear form. 'Rosenfeld: I don't say that.

Don't continue on that line because I do not say that things only exist in so far as they could be observed. All the statements we make about the world are necessarily des- Advisory Council for the Supply and Training of Teachers, published in 1965— are fairly conservative. Later figures, published in 1967 by the Economist Intelli- gence Unit, estimated a de- ficiency of 32,000 teachers in secondary schools. AT FIRST sight more suc- cess appears to have been achieved by the Robbins Report on Higher Education.

Robbins demanded that places should be provided for 390,000 full-time students in 1973-1974 and for 560,000 in 1980-1981. This was to resolve compe- tition for places. The idea was that all who were able and qualified should find a place in higher education if they wanted one. These targets for full-time students have, in tact, already ›een exceeded. But the 'successi is illusory. The real test is : does everybody who wants and qualifies for higher edu- cation actually get it? The Robbins estimates were too low. Ihere has been a greatly increased demand for higher education - and when Robbins was published 63 out of every 100 with the minimum qualifications were getting into university. Today the figure is 55 out of every 100. In other words, almost half the young people who qualify criptions of a state of affairs, of mind, of material, that an observer might perceive if he were placed in those particular circumstances. •Vigier: Let us say then we agree that the world exists outside any observer. Did the laws of quantum mechanics apply to the world at a time when there were no observers present? 'Rosenfeld: Of course. 'Vigier: O.K. If you say then, that the laws of quantum mechanics did apply at that time, then the laws of quantum mechanics are real, objective, statistical laws nature, which have nothing to do with the observer, and are verified whether there are observers or not. 'Rosenfeld: No.' Here we see the contradic- tion into which the idealist is led. Not last word Professor Rosenfeld swal- lows it wholein 1908 the idealists attempted to resolve it by introducing various ficti- tious 'observers' to make sure that the world didn't disappear before man arrived on scene! Today, few physicists will insist the the present quantum theory has said the last word.

In order to fit in with the results of experiments, the theory has been elaborated by The mechanical materialists who objective world could be reduced to a f dumbfounded when J. J. Thompson (abor which opened the way to the discovery the atom. and want to go to university are unable to get places.

Robbins also recommended increased capital and recurrent grants to universities to pro- vide more places. eases, it said, for tee me time creased, but being' grants should not be replaced by loans. Since then university finances have been 'under review", but there has been considerable pressure to replace grants by loans. This has been accompanied by sensational publicity about long-haired students 'living off grants'. Cannot attend In fact, the students who need grants and who could not attend universities and colleges without them are the children of working-class and lower- middle-class parents. The children of the wealthy have always had higher educa- tion, and to reduce or replace would keep grants more working-class and middle-class people out and leave more places for the rich. BUT PERHAPS the greatest fanfare of all greeted the Plowden Report on the primary schools. Here was the Cinderella of education. Classes of over 40 and even 50, crumbling schools old, frozen-up outside tories and no hot water, class- rooms having to be evacuated because the walls were falling in. At last, something was going to be done. Or was it? The Plowden Report's main recommendation was that there should be positive assistance to schools in deprived areas.

No class should exceed 30 in these schools and teachers in them should get £120 salary addition. There should be a teachers' aide to every two classes in such schools and they should get extra books and equipment.

The Report also called for improved educational facilities for the children of immigrants and for better school health and welfare services. It said that more teachers, especially should be men, encouraged to enter primary teaching and that there should be an increase in the number of part-time teachers. No cane The Report urged that an extra £7 million-f10 million should be spent annually over seven years beginning in 1971 to provide extra buildings and equipment. It recommended that cor- poral punishment-defined as the infliction of physical pain the addition of various rules of thumb (such as the sub- traction of infinities to make certain results meaningful!).

This situation has arisen in- creasingly with the probing of nuclear interactions. The years around 1930 saw the birth of the era of nuclear physics. basic instrument for The "smashing the atom', the cyclo- accelerator, tron or particle was developed in the period by E. O. Lawrence at California University. This was the big step necessary to break down the nuclear barrier. The construction since that period of bigger and more powerful machines has pro- duced literally scores of new particles whose masses get pro- gressively larger as increased energy provides the possibility for the creation of mass.

Most of the particles are extremely shortlived and dis- integrate in a period of time of the order of one ten-thou- sand-millionth of a second.

The stable particles are the electron, proton, neutrino, antineutrino, positron and photon while the neutron is relatively stable with a lifetime of about 16 minutes. New design In its first runs, Lawrence's machine produced energies who bellered, like Newton, that the reduced to a few simple equations, were Thompson (above), performed experiments the discovery of the inner structure of Thursday, November 20, 1969 - should be forbidden in maintained schools and that no independent school using cor- poral punishment should be recognized as efficient. Nursery education, it said, full-time should be provided for about 15 per cent of child- ren in the three to five years age range and part-time for the rest. What has been done? The 'educational priority areas' are still rotting away. Better books, equipment, ancillary helpers and better staffing ratios are not being provided. school-building The pro- grammes are being cut and part-time teachers sacked—in complete opposition to the Plowden proposals. Far from a drive to reduce class sizes, students are quali- fying in Colleges of Education and finding themselves un- wanted. The record on Plowden is one of total neglect.

All of the proposals dreamed up in the boom period for all levels of education are being firmly pushed aside with the changes for the worse within British capitalism. Education is not a 'national' problem—it is a class problem.

The children of the ruling class do not go to the schools dealt with in these reports.

They go to the public schools because their parents can afford to pay. The contrast is startling.

While working-class children sit in classes of over 40 in their primary schools and over 30 in their secondary schools, the ratio of staff to pupils in the public schools is 1: 11.8.

The educational 'economies' now taking place are at the , expense of our children in order to preserve the privileges of the ruling class. Same action Schoolteachers are now be- ginning to realize that in order to fight back against the Burnham Committee's miser- able £50-a-year offer, they will have to take the same sort of action the dustmen, as dockers, miners and motor workers. A decent salary for teachers involves a fight against the government's incomes policy.

Similarly, to ensure a decent education . for the children of the working class requires a struggle against capitalism.

In the days of boom, a Labour government could introduce educational reforms.

In capitalism's crisis, a Labour government comes down on all the working class, young and old, in the schools just as in the factories.

The era of reforms, con- cessions and compromise is over. The only future for the working class and its children is to organize in revolutionary struggle against capitalism in decay. around 100,000 electron volts.

In 1960, a 30,000 million volt (30 GeV) accelerator was completed at the Brookhaven laboratory in the United States that measured about a-mile in circumference. British nuclear physicists are laying foundations for a new design of 'atom smasher' that could be much smaller and yet far more powerful than anything seriously envis- aged so far. A preliminary study has been made by the Science Re- search Council's Rutherford Laboratory of the possibilities of replacing the ring of large electromagnets on Nimrod, its 7-GeV machine, with a ring of superconducting magnets of the same diameter. In this way its power could be raised fourfold, to the same order as the accelerator at the European Commission for Nu- clear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. Such a project could be a pilot experiment for a much more powerful machine of per- haps 1,000 GeV. If present plans for a 300- GeV accelerator for Europe break down-and France now threatens to follow Britain in withdrawing from participation in the £78 million machine- Europe's physicists may re- plan their objective on a longer timescale but far more am- bitiously. This will probably do them little good in the light of the economic crisis. Cannot predict The 1,000-GeV machine will cost over £100 million and it is virtually impossible to pre- dict what it will produce when it begins to operate-just a profusion of even bigger parti- cles or will some quantitative change take place which will provide the key to the present jigsaw puzzzle? Of one thing we can be certain. The future unification of nu- clear theory and its incorpora- tion into a more comprehen- sive theory of fundamental particles will reveal it to be a more or less accurate reflection in men's minds of objective processes—not God playing dice.

Palestine and the Arab revolution Thursday, November 20, 1969 • • • The new radicalism fallec o make its mark in a big way, or rather it has so far failed to the leaders it needs. throw up Ever since the June war it had been the guerrillas who were the spearhead of a new order, raining ground at the expense of the regimes which, whether "re- actionary revolutionary" represent for Arabs the many discredited old order. But for the first time, the old order, decadent but full of guile, has got the better of the new order, vigorous but naive-and not in- corruptible' (David Hurst, Beirut November 7, "The Guardian'.)

LEBANON'S pro- imperialist regime has lived to betray another day. It has survived after what had looked like becoming the Lebanon's biggest crisis since 1958.

Then the Lebanese ruling class was saved from revolu- tion by US Marines. This time they have been helped by the political inter- vention by other Arab governments-particularly by Nasser-and by the lack of revolutionary leadership on the part of those who chai- lenged them. After two weeks of bitter fighting between the Lebanese army and the Palestine Arab guerrilla units, and strikes and demonstrations Lebanese cities in support of the guerril- las, Nasser succeeded arranging an agreement be- tween the army commander in General Emile Bustani, chief, and the Al Fatah and Palestine Liberation Organization leader, Yasser Arafat. Less than a fortnight pre- viously, Arafat had said in Damascus that he doubted whether there was any value in talks between Arab leaders and the Lebanese governments.

Previous agreements had not been honoured, he said, and he saw no reason why any future ones should be. The agreement that was signed following the talks in Cairo upholds the "sovereignty and territorial integrity' of the Lebanese gövernment, while conceding the guerrillas' right IT HAS been reported ('The Times'. , November 11, 1969) that the Labour Regional and Party's Local Government Advi- sory Committee has and h recommended to the NEC the adoption of the major proposals of the report of the Royal Com- mission on Local Govern- ment (Maud Report).* While the Labour Govern- ment has not yet stated which parts of the report it intends to carry out, the dis- cussion and proposals of the Royal Commission indicate the importance which the ruling class attaches to the thoroughgoing preparation of the state machine for use in its attempts to take back the gains that the working class has won, particularly in the period since the last war.

The present local govern- ment areas were set up by the Local Government Act of 1888.

The bodies then set up have become responsible for plan- ning, transport, all education outside the universities, social and community services, hous- ing and a large part of health services. They have come to spend very large sums of money. In 1967 they spent £5,033 millions, raised locally from rates, provided out of taxes by the central government, and large part of capital for a raised spending as private loans at high interest rates.

Some of this spending—on for example-is transport, essential to the profits of big business. Most of it, however, represents gains made by the labour movement and is now seen by the ruling class as an unjustifiable extravagance.

It currently forms over 15 per cent of the national income * Report of the Royal Commis- on Local Government in sion England, 1966-1969 (HMSO June 1969, Cmnd. 4040). to operate from Lebanese terri- tory, within limits, without government interference. The details of the agreement, the precise limits which it im- on the poses guerrillas are secret, but it has been reported that they will not be allowed to fire across the Israeli border from Lebanese soil, and they keep their movements must within specified corridors.

Camp control According to reports the Lebanese authorities are to have control over the refugee which are guerrilla camps, recruiting grounds.

CHARLES

PARKINS

According to Paul Martin, The Times' correspondent ir Beirut: 'Although • its true signifi- undoubtedly be drowned in political argument, the most sinister aspect of the Lebanese agreement from the guerrillas' point of view is the revelation by the Lebanese negotiating team that the secret agreement provides for the guerrilla from action Lebanese territory to be within the framework of the general Arab plan.' In other words, although the Lebanese government has now acknowledged the right of the guerrillas it has to operate, insisted, however, that all operations be directed and controlled by the Arab govern- ments; whereas, the whole his- torical significance of the guer- rilla movements is that they have insisted on the Palestin- ian people being allowed to determine their own tuture, and have taken the initiative themselves rather than rely on the existing Arab governments.

For over 20 years, since the Palestine people were made and has been rising at over 9 per cent per year. Under the guise of seeking greater efficiency through creating larger local authori- ties, the Royal Commission lays the groundwork for a wholesale attack on these gains. It estimates the proper size 'exploiting economies of for scale' (para. 523) to be a local authority population of at least 250,000. It therefore proposes to re- organize the present 124 coun ties and county boroughs of England, together with the smaller authorities, of 1,086 widely differing sizes and characters, into 58 'unitary areas. In addition it proposes to create very large 'metropolitan areas' for the three biggest urban areas outside London— Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool. * The Labour Party's Commit- tee backs the essence of these plans, only sugesting a slightly larger number of unitary areas and about eight instead of three metropolitan authorities.

The authors of the report do not disguise its essential pur- poses: recent trends continue, If local government services are likely to claim an increasing • proportion of the gross national product. 'If this tendency is to be held in check, local authorities will come under increasing pressure to economize in men and materials, and to increase efficiency; and there will be increased competition among the services for available re- sources' (para. 510.) 'Enquiries into the future of local government services, they complain invariably bring demands for expansion and im- provement of facilities' (para.

509.) These demands are to be fought. Only by massive reorganiza- tion can the demands of the Tories for cut-backs in govern- ment spending be met. homeless in their own land by Zionist and colonization aggression, these Arab govern- ments have failed them. As soon as the 1948 war was over, the State of Israel came into existence in Pales- tine, the kingdom of Jordan- then Trans-Jordan-annexed the Palestine Arab West Bank while Egypt annexed the Gaza strip, both regimes disregard- ing the Palestinian people's right to a state. As for Nasser, the champion of Arab nationalism, he said on numerous occasions that he would recognise the 1947 partition as the basis for a peaceful settlement with the Zionist state, and more „re- cently, the pre-1967 frontiers.

Colonization The Palestine problem is not just a dispute about boun- daries that can be negotiated and settled between neighbour- ing states. It is a national problem, the denial of self-determination, of a homeland to the Palestinian Arab people, and the imposi- tion of a racist, colonialist, Zionist state. guerrilla The movement arose because a new generation of Palestinians, realizing that they could not rely on govern- ments, found inspiration from guerrilla movements in other parts of the world and took up themselves to arms wage popular war for the liberation of their homeland from Zion- ism. After the debacle of June 1967, in which the Arab governments, both bourgeois and feudal, showed a combina- tion of boasting demagogy with unpreparedness for any real fight, enabling the Zionists to conquer even more territory and create more refugees, people throughout the Arab countries have become con- vinced that the guerrillas are right. The heroism and determina- tion of the Arab resistance fighters in the occupied terri- tories--Israeli losses in the occupied areas have been much higher than they were in the June war-have earned them the prestige which the govern- In local government, as in industry, mergers mean sack- ings. 'One of the major gains of reorganization ... will be the much more efficient use of authority staff.' (para. local 561.) But this productivity deal will have no wage rises attached: 'Steps should be taken to discourage late increases by authorities in the existing and salaries of their status staff, with the object of assur- ing more favourable positions for them in the employment of the new authorities.' (para.

562.) Even the most distinguished heads may have to roll: 'At the higher levels, some redundancy is inevitable; there will not be chief officer posts for all who hold them now.'

But never shall it be said that a Royal Commission has failed to look after its own: 'We have no doubt that generous compensation for loss of office is much better, both for the individuals concerned and for local government, than the creation of unnecessary posts.' (para. 564.) The reorganization of local government is first and fore- most an attack on the reforms won through the state. As part of this process it the increasing ascen- reflects dancy of the biggest business interests. The present local govern- ment bodies are closely tied to small and local business interests. * Government policy, how- ever, is now increasingly dom- inated by the interests of the monopolies, very biggest whose interests are regional, national and international in scope. They have no concern to preserve the ties of local gov- ernment—only in establishing central controls to cut spend- ing. It is these interests which lie behind the report's cant about making it "easier for speak local government to united voice' (para. with a 574.) and giving 'communities in city and town new kinds of opportunity to speak and take • for themselves'. (para.

action 575.)

WORKERS' PRE

After successive betrayals by Arab governme the Palestinian people took up arms themsel of Yasser Arafat, pictured above.

ments, including Nasser's, had lost. Now, these governments, which failed to achieve any- thing for the Palestinian mas- ses in 20 years, are attempting to retain their prestige, claim- ing to have some 'plan' for the struggle, to which the Pales- tinian organizations must sub- themselves, ordinate surren- dering the initiative they have taken. • The crisis in Lebanon brought out the real relation- ships between the • Palestinian people's struggle and the Arab In the proposals for the mammoth metropolitan areas these interests show even more clearly. Birmingham, Manchester and the Merseyside are to con- tain a present population of over 8} millions, together with concentrations of enormous manufacturing industry. In each the overall area authority would take charge of planning, transport and devel- opment, water, police and am- bulances, while housing, the personal social services, educa- tion, libraries, parks and so on would be left to the smaller metropolitan district councils —the local councils within the metropolitan areas. Since 'the cost of whatever a local council decides to do should be borne by that coun cil' and 'What a local council does not do because it is not prepared to meet the cost, may therefore, not be done at all' is open, (para. 393.) the way under the cover of 'self-suffi- ciency, for working-class dis- tricts in the big cities to be separated off and progressively impoverished, while the inter- ests of the bosses are fully protected. The Labour Party proposals for more metropolitan authori- ties accentuate this threat.

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y Arab governments in the past, up arms themselves under the leadership government on the one hand and the Arab masses on the other. Full strength The Lebanese army, which saw little action at all in June 1967, was used in full strength against the guerrillas and their supporters. On October 24, Palestinian guerrillas in the South Lebanon village of Majdal Salem were surrounded by 3,500 troops with tanks and artillery.

Elsewhere, guerrillas came under simultaneous fire from Lebanese and Israeli troops.

On the day before, army units had been brought into Beirut to guard against demon- strations in support of the Palestinian movement. Police dispersed a demon- stration of 500 people in the city's Bourg Al-Brajneh dis- trict, the Palestinian quarter.

A general strike broke out in the southern city of Sidon, in protest at the repression against the guerrillas. In the city of Tripoli there were demonstrations and bar- ricades were thrown up, with large-scale fighting. The police were cleared out of the Bourg Al-Brajneh dis- trict of Beirut when guerrillas moved in, helping the people to put up barricades and take over the area. It was the working masses who stood by the guerrilla fighters in their struggle.

To the support of the pro- imperialist government Lebanon came the so-called revolutionary' Ba'ath nation- alist army officers' regime of Iraq. Rejected claim We can quote once again the comment of 'The Times' cor.

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hitherto managed to outdo its progressive colleagues in revo- lutionary fervour.' The Iraqi government's line apparently, as set out by Lieu- tenant-General Ammash, the deputy Prime Minister, rejec- ted the guerrillas' claim to bases in Lebanon, sayıng that all they needed was a 'corri- dor' for infiltration. Which is, more or less, what the Lebanese government said.

It is not a new line for the Iraqui regime. In April this year, as was reported in "The Newsletter' (forerunner of Workers Press), they introduced measures to impose control on Palestinian groups in Iraq. The Iraqi government note, signed by Chafic Al Daraji, de- cleared that all guerrillas should be moved nearer the front, concentrated in Jordan.

"There is no room for them to be in Iraq', said the note.

It also instructed all Pales- tinian organizations to inform Iraqi intelligence of their and to appoint movements, liaison officers to co-operate with the authorities about such as distribution of matters literature, fund raising, radio programmes, money, and arms.

It said they must stop hold- ing rallies without permission must subordinate them- selves to the newly set-up, government-sponsored 'Arab Liberation Front'. According to Geoffrey Sum- ner, in "The Guardian', April 'Iraq's ruling Ba'ath Socialist Party apparently fears that its unpopularity contrasting dangerously with the strong local support for the guerril- las.' Cairo's role 'Self-determination' and 'liberation' are, it would seem, contaminating ideas. So much for the Iraqi regime. To quote Paul Martin again as to the role of the Iraqi A group of Palestinian guerrillas bolding pi Newsroom and Weather. 7.30 8.00 Call My Bluff. The Money Programme. 8.30 The Canterbury Tales. 9.15 10.05 The Price Of Fame or Fame any Price: at Georgie Fame. 10.35 News Summary and Weather. 10.40 Line Up.

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government in the Lebanon crisis: 'By bringing down the guer- rillas a peg or two, General Ammash reasserted the right of Arab governments to deter- mine Arab destiny and paved the way for Cairo to play a more active role in the nego- tiations.' ('The Times', Novem- ber 8) While the Iraqi regime was taking measures to control Palestinian political activity and was also carrying out re- pressive measures to crush the underground Communist Party in Iraq, the Soviet bureaucracy has been busily wooing the Iraqi rulers. The Soviet bureaucracy has a lot to answer for to the Palestinian masses. Nasser: Champion of Arab nationalism. In 1947, Stalin and Gromyko supported the partition Palestine and the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia supplied arms and aircraft to Israel.

Later, the Soviet bureau- cracy expressed willingness to join the tri-partite agreement Britain, France with America, guaranteeing the Is- raeli frontiers. In 1966, they began drop- ping hints of a 'Tashkent'-type agreement being arranged be- tween Israel and the Arab states, of course without the rillas bolding pictures of Lenin.

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Palestinian Arabs being repre- sented. Since the June war the Kremlin has engaged in talks with the United States for an imposed solution. Talks appeal The Soviet Union issued statement during the Lebanon crisis quite rightly warning the United States not to intervene; but in case their position should be misunderstood, they followed this up with a fresh appeal to the United States and Britain for talks between the great powers to impose a solution. The Soviet Union and all the pro-Moscow Communist Parties treat the Palestine issue as the 'Arab-Israeli issue', a territorial dispute to be re- solved by negotiations between states. The Soviet newspaper 'Sovietskaya Rossiya' of April 15 this year criticised the Arab guerrilla movements for setting themselves independent politi- cal aims and stated that the idea of replacing Israel by a 'Democratic Palestinian State', in which Arabs and Jews would be equal citizens, was not a realistic proposition.

The bureaucracy does not think that solutions implemen- ted by the masses are realis- They place their faith in agreements with bourgeois and reactionary imperialist govern- ments and insist that the mas- ses do likewise. The Palestinian people and all the Arab masses have been betrayed too often. They cannot afford to trust the governments and classes that have betrayed them any more, nor can they afford to trust the Soviet bureaucracy. They need to create a new, revolutionary leadership, based on the working class and the peasants. In a further article we shall look at the guerrilla movements and their politics to see what sort of leadership exists at present. p.m. 4.17

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Grangemouth boilermakers say: Scottish nurses United action needed demand more pay against 'Blue Book'

FRONM. SHAW

THREE

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meeting called resolution calling passel a Crossman, richard secretar a state INTERVENTION by the Trades social services. aval able the monev U.S.D.A.W. to lobby M.P. s substantial pay Congress at BP's Grange- increases Union and ensure adequate staffing of hospitals. mouth refinery site has brought new Shopworkers in Scotland the eight-week-old dangers into be in clashe Th dispute there. must fight hall, ener IIss Call College of Nursin sa gho Both and television have made determined the meeting Italy *Nurses feel present the dispute-which is now increasingly characterized by virtual all attacks pitched battles between pickets and

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police-purely as an inter-union issue.

for resistance be wage demands. Having heard 'both sides of the ling story, from the Boilermakers Society HOPWORKERS from all over Britain are expected to ment to do the —500 of whose members have been lobby their MPs at Westminster next Wednesda Vatican sacked from the site--and the Con- (November 26) to press the case against the govern- Action

TUC

structiona Hngineers. the ment's Selective Employment Tax.

Earlier a Hall had sporti of now no doubt thinks the same.

A statement issued by thi of Workers columns this is by no means the central By our own corresponden nursing families on fixed incomes.

question. not pole pesure same my Secondly, says Inter-union disputes have state Show that SET has hardened doubtedly played a role in the develop- this attitude employers government aispute vrangemout governments pollc. his question. The RCN is the largest body pickets give chapter and verse on tais representine score trades'. Hardened employers but at root. the issue is the sue Wages in the industry ar He tale more, book productivity deal signed by the notoriously lo' readers ot all four unions on the site lower-paid st But the executive's state- and which workers say has never been concentrates entirely put to a vote at a mass meeting.

Moon-walk Condemned

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On Monday. November 17 a mass creaded in October - 1968. There is close eneit meenne or members o the Ama ga European rocket A worried monken ple piers.

mated (angineers. the with Instalment and the Pium bing "rades Union product ro Constructional Engineering seconds ked dectrical system he received a first instal- Union condemned boilermakers breaking actualiving

BY DAVID MAUDE

this "ot only 6d. dorsed the of their realistiniay ranted in lanuar vestment resol jecting to punitive measures. such lobby ore is doing id, rag to a bull Workers alone' tactics.

PONE

told the organized around Exploded role of a reformist steam 42-hour often with com A resolution amrmnea chai dispute as if there were tw members of the three unions valve'. amanded would carry the 20W1,000 fire -doing welding - he din deal alwa Conflict nurses; work normally done by the truggle against 61, 400-1, experi receivinfter boilermakers. £970 €1,350 What is more, the resolu- Soverns and's legalized attack question no the tion stated : bring them onto se lice will • soap pascribed be carry abouts their own union leadership saying you dont saying, this Wednesda Alf Allen. Sections. Which sates i start A claim ot 81,950 t en weekend enem according onsibility, asteful work Commission commor custom- restriction position." Relations. the maximul Glasgow busmen Orangemouth disputes Devon workers burn branch calls strike against Grange productivity deal titar 1ob regardles new schedules

BEA

MANAGEMENT letters outlining productivity suggestions were burnt and Parkhead BUS WORKERS at Maryhill outside a strike headquarters this week to the cheers of Devon strikers.

Transport Gascow Corporation The strike, 2,000 Department struck work at the beginning. of Centrax workers this week and threatened to repeat their acton the timhat obey thought of y a Workers Pre Heath- lactories mu axeler unless the newly-introduced Sunday schedules the fellows. nea ana Newon ADDoL, IS changed. those in its second week The crews claim they are negotiations would close Emoristol given less time than be- mined Productivity at Grangeshionas that adopted with strings demandi rejected the whole idea. fore to cover their routes that longer work and

'NO PROMISES'

heir right to continue periods are involved. • bonuses, ment of the dispiter a setle- shop explained Maryhill Балаб. none the duties order to maintain production?

David Dagger week cacecucu Lay-off clause uncle were now douole une wardintold the O Workers brought steward number or long spreaa-over so bust work Mr Singh auties. rejected them. involved the these One of crenutes without

'MORAL SUPPORT'

were others or at leas Hull Tories end five hours. Cut out and the se closed shop

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services been ed

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for Feathetime cationed by indistine strengthen this danert. Worried ards are becoming nure singly lemonstration by Centrax strike recent Exete I8OB Clapham S.W.4 comma non-union man worked = majority Lany cars were pia wil Thursday, November 20, 1969

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novement began to grow, the UT wrote to the LEAs t appeased by the hoped-for demand a interim pay award this year.'

on agreed to the (Our emphasis.) Secretary of State's proposals The vogue for differential for three working parties.

well explair payments vhy the NUT leaders Just at the moment when find the sanctions campaign was themselves in a sudden 'unity' with the NAS chiefs-for long becoming a weapon in the salaries claim, the NUT folded the sole advocates of such up the action and settled for payments. working parties. Whilst they hailed the Novel proposals sanctions as a 'victory', salar- ies were still frozen. A contributor to the Assist- The last salary claim began ant Masters Association jour- as long ago as October 1968.

nal for November has some At that time the unions novel proposals on this score.

demanding scale were of a additions Degree and merit spread £900-£1,700 should be reduced by a fixed increments. The existing scale amount annually. was £800-£1,500 over 15. And secondly, extra pay should be the basis given on 6.5 per cent of terms of contract, i.e. a £60 bonus for a four-year contract This represented a claim of and £100 for a six-year about 6.5 per cent a year at a tract. time when the earnings of all It would not be altogether industrial employees surprising if this 'army' system rose by 6.9 per cent and the cost reflected the thinking of the of living soared at an un- and government those precedented rate. administration. So for over 18 months the It would be inter- certainly

NUT

watched the if esting to know these pro- standard of living of teachers posals had reached the special fall, before eventually

NUT-LEA

accept- working party! ing £860-£1,600 over 14 years.

Whilst the big guns are This scale considerably being brought out against the was less the union had been teachers than and what caucation asking for as far back as 19651 NUT leaders doing? are the Nowadays it is fashionable At Coventry, where the em- for left the critics on the sacked ployers all part-time that the executive to claim teachers as result of the teachers' leaders were cuts, the NUT executive called conned. off strike action after only 60 But there is ample evidence teachers were re-employer to show that the The NUT leaders agreed to executive was fully conscious of what 'the in most stringent cuts it was doing. other fields of education'.

At the January 31 executive The history recent pre- meeting the Burnham offer vious claims is a history of was endorsed. betrayals by the NUT leader- At the same meeting the ship and warning to all d 'left' correctly con- teachers who want to win the the executive. current claim. As the miners and dustmen learned, to win we must pre- Too late struggle against this They issued a circular to all leadership. 1967 the school meals Greater London teachers call- In ing for strike in sup- the action sanctions were starting port of the original claim.

point of a salary claim cam- The special But it was by then too late paign. Margate conference in May 1967 voted to rally forces against the for executive betrayal. It was no sanctions expedite more than a gesture of protest.

salary negotiations. But "left' why the silence today on the February New talks sell- Their role is vital for the After the £800-£1,470 offer for today there is was rejected, executive, the arbitration developing of £800-£1,500 movement panel awarded scale in July 1967 and nego- in struggle that teachers did not exist at the time of the tiations began for a new scale February acceptance. to operate from April 1, 1969. Today it is question By September 21, 1967, all of gestures of protest by the the sanction in areas were but the preparation for 'lefts', action. national strike action in which Secretary The of State the executive can be defeated Gordon Walker said nothing and the claim won. could be done until sanctions Only the All Trades Unions were called off. Alliance has fought for social- On September 30 he pro- ist solutions to these pressing posed three working parties problems. to examine We demand suspension of a) meals, all local authority interest b) unqualified teachers, payments to the banks and c) salary structure the nationalization of the and the executive was told major industries without com- there would be no re-opening pensation and under workers' of salary negotiations yet. control. Nevertheless the executive : Note No to arbitration. proposed that the sanctions £135 claim in 17 campaign in new areas full NOW. should until • No productivity deal. On November 17 the LEAs Prepare for a full-scale • the a pistol to union's national strike. teachers coattracts it the real bead. threatening break • No confidence in the sanctions went ahead. executive. • Build As the new sanctions areas All Trades the came into and Unions Alliance. action the

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