students Heckling from students and delegates broke out against Education Minister Fred Mulley's call for sacrifices all round at the conference of the National ASSOCIatIon OF Teachers in Hurther and Higher Education last week.
The students - from Didsbury College, further education training colleges at Wolverhampton, and Garnett College, Roehampton - had earlier lobbied the conference calling for support for the students' fight against teacher unemployMulley denied that the Labour Government was contemplating further cuts in teacher training colleges and college closures. But Malcolm Lee, chairman of the NATFHE committee on teacher coucation arew attention to press re ports that teacher training places would be further cut back from 57,000 to Lee was speaking to an emergency motion supporting the student action in fighting for teachers' jobs and committing the union to a target of 60,000 student teacher places. Another speaker for the motion, Hilary Shuard, was enthusiasucally aovaucca wnen sne said unai the association was 'at one with those who are fighting against unemployment of teachers. The conference voted to support the students action. we want to make our case alongside trade unionists on 16 June. It's a simple way of explaining that we don't see ourselves as a special case.
*4. The Executive is trying to use the insecurity that many students are feeling to get the occupations called off. All this talk of going out with a bang and not in dribs and drabs is completely schematic. The political goal of the occupations must be to build action committees with trade unionists in every locality. Let's use the occupations movement to do that, and not confuse it and defuse it as the Executive is trying to do.' DES TIERNEY (Moray House, Edinburgh) moving the successful amenament "This conference must direct itselt to cracking the cohesion that exists around the Government cuts amongst the whole leadership of the labour movement.That's why it's necessary to oppose all cuts and all unemployment, because how could we get the support of the miners and building workers if we said that teacher unemployment was a special case?
*We've got to be fighting for the unity of all sections of the trade union movement willing to fight the policies of the Government.