It on campaign to defeat Tory threat in Tameside The office is staffed by local Tory supporters who are freely offering advice. Among these self-appointed overseers of the education of Tameside working class children is the local rat catcher. Threatened However, his services could be better employed elsewhere. When Tory MP Rhodes Boyson spoke in Hyde Town Hall last Thursday, local supporters of the National Front appeared and physically threatened Despite a 70 per cent vote by teachers not to co-operate with the Tories, they are proposing to select pupils for the 240 grammar school places with the help of four local head teachers (defying their own National Association of Head Teachers) who will interview the school students and ten parents. even wis move, nowever, could be thwarted. The National Union of Public Employees have threatened to call the caretakers out on strike and lock up the schools if the Tory council leaders attempt to get the school record cards.
Trade unionists in Tameside have called upon Mulley to use his powers under section 68 of the 1944 Education Act to force the Tories to drop their schemes. But it is their mass action which is the best guarantee that the reactionary Tories will be thwarted in their plans.
Jim Donoghue