at their Brentford factory walked out.
neighbouring factories in the picture about their strike.
Women Under Attack' - see page 5.
WEEKLY
No. 153 Car component manutacturers rico Polberth got a shock last week. They retused to implement equal pay - and sou women workers The company claims that it complied with the legislation by paying the women an extra £1 last year. But the women say that they're due another £4.75 to bring them up to the men's rate for the job - and they intend to fight for it.
Management had expected the women to stay at home once they had walked out. But every day there has been a large and militant picket on all the factory entrances. Last Thursday the women marched along the Great West Road (above) to put workers at The bosses can find a hundred ways around the Equal Pay Act - but not around struggles like that of the Trico women. ONLY Che PRICE 10p together. deal with Healey.' REP Inside - SPREAD THE STRUGGLE Student teachers have given the green light to every worker opposed to Labour's Tory policies. Their fight, which has led to the occupation of nearly 100 training colleges up and down the coun try, is not a 'special case' but the first mass action against the cuts and unemployment.
What a contrast it makes to the rigged spectacular being staged by the TUC General Council on 16 June to rubber stamp the pay deal with Healey. That will simply be the green light for the Labour Government to go cap in hand to the international financiers for more loans. The price they will pay will be bigger cuts and more unemployment. If we let them get away with it.
The rotten alliance between the Government and the trade union bureaucracy can be broken by involving in struggle all those prepared to fight Labour's attacks on jobs and the social services - workers and students This week the miners are balloting on the pay deal. A 'No' vote - or even a narrow acceptance - would kick a hole through every part of the Government's economic strategy. Student teachers should go to the pits in their areas with a simple message: 'Your pay, our jobs, one fight — no It is the union bureaucracy which is the biggest obstacle to a fight back. The National Union of Teachers leadership has so far simply called for cash to retrain student teachers in areas where there are shortages, largely in technical subjects. Yet in 1969 the National Union of Teachers conference passed a resolution which stated that no NUT member was to teach in classes over 35 by 1970 and 30 by 1975.
Today 80,000 primary school classes (54 per cent) are over 30, as are 30,000 secondary classes. A total of 3½ million children are taught in 111,000 oversized classes. In Strathclyde in Scotland, where the occupations started, 14,000 children are on part-time education because there isn't enough money to pay sufficient teachers. Campaign Students and teachers must campaign for an emergency meeting of the NUT Executive to implement conference policy on class size and support the NUS demo against the Government's White Paper.
Photo: JOHN STURROCK (Report)
In the National Union of Students itself, the Broad Left dominated executive is trying to confine the occupations to a sectoral protest - a backdrop to its negotiations with the Department of Education and Science. At the moment it is proposing to call a national demonstration one day before the lobby of the recall TUC, cutting right across the mobilisation for 16 June when the militant workers with whom the student teachers can form a fighting alliance will be demonstrating Building action committees linking students, teachers and all trade unionists against the cuts is the key to winning jobs. The National Union of Students demonstration on the theme *No to the Cuts, For the Right to Work - Against the Government's White Paper' and the lobby of the recall TUC on 16 June can provide the basis for action against the Labour Government's policies throughout the student and labour movement.
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