another name for it, though. Lady well known for her and heranti-union activitles.
Friday's confrontation, in which 40 demonstrators, including 12 arrested was no isolated incident. the increase. Last week the Daily 'Operation X was the name that Lady Birdwood and her "Self Help' assoclation gave their plans to break the picket lines at the Randolph Hotel In Oxford last Friday.
The strikers and the Anti-Fascist Committee had Birdwood Is connections with the Express printed a major article attacking the Transport and Gentral workers unan over ine strikes. And on Saturday John Gourier of the NAFF held a rally for scabs at the Night Out Club in Birmingham, Clearly Trust Hous es Forte haveprepared their force The Union District Organiser Geoff Hulett, didn't want to be associated with anti-fascist strug NF gles. Hetried to call off the picket. But the strikers and some 200 supporters thought differently. A mass picket was organised to beet the fascist provocation.
Birdwood's expensavely produoed Jealler the picket. And, sure enough. The predictions are that West Lavender'sschool population will be reduced by a third in 1982. Less children in school ls • golden opportenity for improving education by fixing a higher ratio of staff to pupils. Bot this oppertunity Authorities refuse to take. inalead thes pies to close schools and redace the sumber of Lavender Hill School is the first to be threatened with closure and teachers there have launched when the size of the LINKS for the occasion Loodon Education Hill School.
FIGHTBACK reduced from 30 to 25 guaranteed marking times Hill School, London SW11.
_ response became clear, about 50 police arrived to drive the demonstrators out of the Hotel entrance and to make way for Birdwood and her Not since the war have a management in dispute forge ruch clear links with a fascis organisation to break a strike. Trust Houses calculateu cam paign of intimidation, aided bythe hours, Such transiers are already becoming common place in Loodon, and are seen as a softening up process for the threatened redundancies — 473 teachers in London are already facing transfer. A nationnt agreement between the National Union of Teacbers and the Local Educa tion Authorities was meant to safeguard against the effects of ment negotiated with the Inner Authority offers the most minimal guarantees, and none at all on salaries.
I was in response to this sala tion that the Socialist Teachers organised • public meeting in London last week at which it was agreed to coordinate all sebools who are opposed to transfers. The or packed ganisation of this campaign was Loy, solicitor, The fightback against transfers sod closures must be undertaken in a positive way, demanding reduced class size, improved pupil teacher ratios and forms of BBC's vicious: anack on the demonstrators is one that workers and socialists ignore at their peril.
Yet TGWU official Hulett dic just that. Apparently one fight Fascists by running away! This is CAN WE LACES SES WOOL. CAL strikers, with better kaowledge of how to fight, ignored his instructions and curned up.
And the resolve of the strikers bosses* tactics. These workers MCCO TIC SIDE BETHOD WINNI ists throughout the country more hand for a demonstration of solidarity on Saurday 21 May in Oxford, and Red Wenkly urges al its readers in the Midlands bo attend.
beat both the savage arracks of the company and tbe backsiding of the TGWU bureaucracy. We mun THE nationally, We must show not pay.
* A defence fand for the arrested pickets has been set up. We are going to need a let of money. Send contributions care of Oxford Anti-fascier Committee 44b Princes Street, Oxford.
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