Rastered with the Pour Office are newspaper Ablished Ay Relocrest for Red Weekly, 182 Pentomile Road, London M.J. 101-837 6954 We have shown the only effective way of getting anything done, Last week the west Wakes pits held a meeting with a NUPE district representat ive; what was decided?
The meeting decided to call delegate meetings from the west Wales mines to discuss turther action in support of the nurses. They have also called on the south Wales executive to take action.
Have you any advice to norses and workers in other aneus?
Yes. Do the same as we have done.
Red Weekly, 97 Caledonian Road, A.L Metropolitan area, in a recent direc tive, proposed massive cuts in social expenditure.
This is meant to recoup the increase in wages and threshold payments they have been forced to con cede to their employers.
The directive, which was circulated to all council departments including the Education department, stated that unless specisi approval was given by the Chief Executive: alkowed.
3. All promotion to be suspended.
4. No supply teachers do be available.
5. No contracts of temporaty staff to be renewed.
Hall of 3,000 teacbers and the shutting down for one afterniona of 400 schools, some concessions were made. The Education Department, and not the Finance Committee, now has the right to veto appointments and all schools will receive their full quota of teachers. However, schools now staffed 'above quota will have their staff reduced.
It seems likely that the cuts in expenditure will be made in arcas ments.
1. No extruondinary expenditure to be 2. No further appolatments to be made.
Following a meeting in the Town less well organised or where these cuts will be less immediately obvious, The problem that Leeds (cachers face is to continue their Tight against the cats but to avoid the pittall of winning that fight at the expense of the public sector unions in the other council deparcThe attack on the educational services is not confined to Leeds. The 2180 million cut in the educational budgets made by the Tory Govern ment has been upheld by the Labour This dismantling of the educational system must be opposed nationally. not only by teachers, but by all the working class. Links must be made with other public sector workers to Tight against the whole spectrum of social expenditure cuts which directTy attack cheir working conditions.
It is crucial to demonstrate that these cuts affect the living standards of all workers, not only through their children being educated" in the state system but in health, bousing and social welfare. While the building trade is facing huge redundancies, the Inner London Education Authority alone has been forced to abandon helps! resist the capitalist offensive wher the struggle is confined to only one section of workers.
The latest attacks on education have their cost serious effects on the education of working class child reu. It is essential that trade unions and bodies like trades councils should follow the example of the Hackney Trades Council, who held a conference last wook to discuss and formulate proposals of action around the cuts in social expenditure CATHY YOUNG FUND DRIVE ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT-there's no other way to describe it.
This week's post brought no less than E155.45, lifting us lon Monday. with two days to go to £335.87 Pride of place must go to London IMG members and sympathisers, who between them collected £108.55 We should also mention Coventry IMG (E10), Nottingham IMG (E10), J. Swinburne (E6), Leeds IMG (EG).
Oh ... and Norman Atkinson, MP, who gave us 5p at the Cyprus rally last Sunday. Every little bit