extended.
MAN reports complete confidence, She knew the conference had endorsed which would prevent any effective union resistance to the Government's policies, CHECUEIVE recommended acceptance the present len pet cent offer and the dropping of the fight Other teaching unions are to maintain Ise withdrawal or volintary services by teachers in pursuit of a better offer, On cuts: the executive pur forward a stralegy based local action. The national policy of the Government was accepted, leaving action against only its most dramatic effecis education aithorities.
CUT OFF The executive argued that teachers were unable ro more on their own. They then proceeded to put forward pollcies on every major debate which cuts teachers off from the trade union movement.
On what is taught in schools: the executive maintained that only the teaching profession' was qualified to judge.
It rejected proposals from Lambeth Westminster with parents, students, sals which argued that only an alhance with the trade union movement would safeguard On rocism: the EDUCATION SECRETARY Shirley Williams de-| Party. fended the Labour Government's record on education at the National Union of Teachers conference In Blackpool last week. This record includes £600m cut from the education budget and 40,000 unemployed Williams announced that such measures would be 'Schools will need to be closed, demanded. From Blackpool JONATHAN SILBER• Shirley Williams spoke with opposed a resolution from Westininster and which called for a militant policy against fascism, both in schooks and society at large.
The executive argued that motions calling for a campaign of with other sectiom of immigration controls and the organisations were 'alarmist', COMMUNITY This attitude Rowed from the executives opposition 1o the SECHO DETEC MOLDE CON TACISTE at the Trade Union Congress which called for participation in local community relations councik and anti-racist com mittees.
In all these policies members of the Communist Party either spoke on behalf of. support of the exocutive. Leaddo ing CP members even went so Women's Charter, which was defeated on a show of cards by 63,000 votes.
DISGRUNTLED The CP suffered as a result, and they no longer have any of the three executive members they used to. Some CP members undoubtedly voted for the motions on alliance between the CP and the will take more than the executive members of the Communist It will mean building a strong and united left opposition with the NUT.
The Socialist Teachers Alpledged to such a policy. STA members spoke over 30 times at The conference, and moved or she seconded motions and amend ments on all the major debates. But the STA is not the only left Rank and File Teacher memBarking and -aDL the OFE THE FIRST results National Onion conference coming in as we went to press Broad Left candidates topped the poll in both the presidential and vice presidential elections, Socialist Students and instances.
Shut if the The most marked difference from last year is a dramatic slumn in the votes tor dis- candicates whose first prefer.
Hence total were almost halved from last year. This means that union.
STEERING men ber agroed to establish slate in TREVOR PHILLIPS: elected NUS president of Students were the first time.
the Alliance National Tory lion: BL. 314: 198.
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Important part of the left in the refused to National saying that Executive and Rank and File Dick North also argued in favour of rebuilding the lett in the NUT, while the STA and Rank and File have La joint steering committee after con ference to prepare next year's motions and ensure a united Birmingham.
the union's Act.
Act, for an woman's B pregnancy Until the backstreet the SSA came second in both the presidential and vice-prest at risk. dential first preference polls for Votes in the election for president included (First figure is first preference vote, second Letional: resist 15.
(reinisation Socialist Stu dents, 104; 110. Federation of Conservative Students, 74; 77 In the vice presidential elec National 403. SSA, 181; NOISS, 100; 107. FCS. 17 March.
La letter ABORTION A DOCTOR was recently jailed for 18 months for carrying out an illegal abortion in Leicester, where legal abortions are hand to come by.
FIONA RANDLES, from the Leicester Abortion Campaign, tells the The woman concerned, whose marriage was breaking down, refer ber for a Health •abortion there were no physical or social grounds He also refused to prescribe anti-depressants feared that she might misuse them. The second doctor in the also relused ber National Health abortion. but advised her to go the the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in The woman did not follow this adviceasit would have meant an overnight stay and she was find out what she was up to Leicester who was willingto doa later admitted to hospital with BrISCOL CODILLIE When the woman first went to her own docer there clearly psychiatric and social grounds for referral for a safe, legal NHS ahortion, even under the restrictive 1967 Abortion The National Abortion the Campaign in Leicester con rinses to fight for the proper implementation of the 1967 outpatient NHS ARONOR CINE and for right choose E abortion facilities in Licener avarlability shire Improves there backstre to bertionis d abortionists said women'stives and health will be EDINBURGH -GAS WORKERS PUT vour mark in the box marked "No Strike' was the advice given to members of the Edinburgh gas branch of the and Local Government Officers on The rocommendation came in ram man cement ar Scotish Gas at Granton near Rooke, chauperson of British Gas, bas his way.
The strikers themselves have fer to tackle all the bosses attempts to break the strike Scottish Gas has assembled managers Trom all OVer Scotland at the Commodore Hotel in Exlinburgh in an ка: headquarters open and main functioning DE computers The calling of mass pickets every Monday is a step to halting this and the strike committee is organising pickets of those gas showrooms which remain open.
The call last week by the strike conunittee and the local NALGO Action Group for the setting up of an open strike support committee is a firststep cowards involving workers throughout the public sector in But as much support as possible is necessary, both in Edinburgh and nationally. The strike be contacted ar:
Trades Council, Picardy Place, Edinburgh. Tel: 051-556 3006.
THE Society Protection of the Unborn Child held public meeting in Glasgow on Monday night. The meeting was part of SPUC'S campaign make its anti-abortion position a central issue in Garscadden byEven the local pro-abortion campaigners, who had good reason to know how high feelings were running in the arca, were surprised the turn-out in support of SPUC.
The Tory and SNP candidates both confirmed their carlier anti-abortion positions. Dewar, the Labour candidate, that he thought the 196. Act had been much too iberally interpreted for the la implementation of the report of on Ahortion which called for senses of the aw so-called Most shocking of all was the statement sent by the CP candidale. sammy Barr. who succumbed to the pressures of Barr srated that although he supported a 'woman's right to choose, he did not agree with free abortion on demand.
His attenipe to maintain his credibility amongst women
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