say that At this very moment, however, there The NUT has a policy, which can But the conference's simultaneous acceptance of the Government-TUC pay policy made a mockery of the cam paign against the cuts adopted. The recuave movers or suppor lo me pay deal made this conditional on the control Or Dices ane dismoured Drons. sus tained investment, and a commitment to maintaining real levels of expenditure.
But as some delegates pointed out. the alliance proposed between NATHE and the Labour Government to achieve this could be compared to a non-aggression pact between Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf.
The opposition to the endorsement of incomes policy was botched by the Communist Party movers. In a vague speech, the speaker - obviously uneasy at breaking with the Executive- provided no clear lead for the delegates be yond a vague statement wat the cats and incomes policy were related The fight against the cuts must be 16th. forged at the rank-and-file level. Not one lecturer or student who witnessed the Executive's demagogy about the cuts, ment on the key issue of wages, can expect any real lead from them. the 16th. RUTH MARTIN (Sauthlands College, London):
•We came to this conference for action - and we haven't seen much of that proposed today from the Executive. We want to see the struggle for teacher employment as part of the struggle for the right to work of the whole trade union movement. That's why we must march on the *To march on the 15th would be to say that we are a special case. What we want is not a walk round London with other students on the 15th but a day of fighting action on