The Guardian from London, Greater London, England • 20

Thursday February 20 1969 school 000 teachers join in protest through city By PAULINE CLARK About 2,000 schoolmasters from the Greater Manchester area took part in a march and motorcade through the city yesterday to protest about the suspension of teachers for working to rule. Manchester leaders of the National Association of Schoolmasters, who organised the march and meeting, claimed the response showed wholehearted support for the five NAS members from the Kirkholt High School, Rochdale, who had been suspended for working to rule. A conspicuous handful of young women teachers and a substantial number of NUT members also turned up 'in sympathy. The rally was held partly to condemn the Rochdale education committee for suspending teachers who were One small boy and a long line of schoolmasters in Manchester organised a protest march and meeting in support of yesterday, when the National Association of Schoolmasters five of their colleagues who have been suspended NEWS IN BRIEF 5 hears rates 'sermon By MICHAEL MORRIS LSE's first day goes to moderates savings, the' council could not expect similar budgets. He asked for consideration of the following measures.

1. Each committee should report on possible staff reduction. Alderman Fieldhouse said on this point: "I want to make it clear that I am not suggesting dismissals, nor would I be party- to them. But if scope for reductions can be found, it could be achieved as the result of retirement and wastage." 2. Priorities for capital and other works should be considered.

3. The slum clearance committee should be instructed to accelerate residential redevelopment. 4. A working party from estates management, town planning and buildings, and finance committees shoidd report on ways of accelerating commercial and industrial redevelopment. 5.

The finance committee Nothing left to those on the Left lyjR JOHN PERCY BAILEY, of Melciss Road, Wickers-ley, near Rotherham, who died in July leaving 9,542, said in his will that no member of his family should benefit if they belonged to the Labour Party or Communist Party. He left most of his property upon trust for his wife for life and then to his three sons or their families. The net figure was 9,452 (duty 389). Second thoughts about road Cheshire County Council is holding up preparations to build an inner ring road at Nantwich following the intervention of the Civic Trust. The scheme is being opposed by Nantwich Urban Council, which says it would be disastrous for the town's historic character.

36,600 for old coins One of the finest collections of Eoman coins in private ownership was sold anonymously at Sotheby's yesterday for 36.671. It included one specimen from each reign in the period. Julius Caesar to Majonan, who died in AD 46L Stamps help animals Junior branch members of the I People Dispensary for Sick Animals collected more than a million trading stamps so that the PDSA could buy two sets of veterinary instruments, each costing 50. Tiptoe going home Once nicknamed Buckingham Palace" because of the comparative luxury of her living quartets, the Royal Navy's oldest patrol submarine, Tiptoe, is to make a twenty-fifth anniversary visit on Tuesday to Barrow-in-Furness, where she was built. Questions for commuters Motorists using the A56 between Altrincham and Manchester will be handed questionnaires on their way to work next week to help Salford University students in a research study, into commuter habits.

obeying union instructions and partly to support the association's present stand against conditions in schools and the Burnham pay machinery. Nearly 10.000 children in Salford, Rochdale, Bury, Oldham, Stockport, and Leigh had an unomciai nouaay yesteraay as a result of the dispute. Children in Manchester schools were largely not affected because most were still having their half-term holiday. Provocative At the protest meeting in the Albert Hall, Manchester, 1,600 members of the NAS were told that the association had enough resources to continue action indefinitely. Mr Arthur Jones, NAS national treasurer and one of the Burn- ham Committee members who walked out in January, said that talk about action harming the children was sanctimonious cant." Teachers were educators and not child-minders and would not continue to take oversize classes.

Nor would they take over from absent colleagues iust because they were ordered to do so. as it preventeu tnem from marking and preparing their work properly. Four of the five suspended teachers present (one was ill yesterday), were given a stand ing ovation. Earlier, thev had joined in a 60-ear motorcade which wound through the city centre plastered with militant slogans. At a preliminary gathering.

grievances were aired informally for more than an hour. Mr Jim O'Malley, the motorcade organiser, claimed that Lanca shire education authority had added to the sense of outrage among members of the group, because it had -made teachers in many schools sign attendance forms that day. Humiliating "It was humiliating for a-pro- fessjon to have to stoop to that," be said. He believed the idea was to discover the names of those who had attended rally by a process of elimination. Mr F.

Hartley, a teacher at Ordsall secondary school, said be had been complaining for the last 10 years that he was having to teach as many as seven classes in one classroom. Recently, he had been teaching in tempera-, tures of below 40 degrees. Lords pause to worry over environment and mankind's future By1 NORMAN SHRAPNEL, our Parliamentary Correspondent Council A STAFF-SLIMMING opera-tion in Manchester Corporation was suggested to the City Council yesterday as part of a five-point economy plan to avoid large general rate increases. Alderman R. A.

Fieldhouse, chairman of the Conservative-controlled finance committee, said this could be done by not replacing those who retired or who left voluntarily. Last year, the total employed by the council, including temporary workers, was 36,000. Council warned The alderman was making his budget speech before the council decided to levy a general rate of 16s 9d in the pound, an increase- of 5d. But' because of Government grants, the rate for householders is stabilised for the second year. Alderman Fieldhouse gave a warning that unless there were Children led from strdiided coach Hand in -hand, 23 schoolchildren walked through deep snowdrifts for half a mile yesterday to escape a moorland blizzard.

They had been trapped for more than four hours in a coach on the moors near Saddleworth before being rescued by police. The -dhil'd-ren aged beltiween 12 and 15. from Redbrook high school, Rochdale, were returning from an outing to London on the A635 when the coach became trapped in a drift. Rescue vehicles and a relief coach' were unable to reach them so teachers and police had to walk through the snowstorm to guiae xnem safety They clutched hands and were led to police Land-Rovers wait-omg half ai mile away. A police man wno neipea in tne rescue said The blizzard was so fierce it was like being in a thick fog, we couldn't see.

The conditions were atrocious." Songs and dancing As the children waited in the coach they sang and danced an the aisle. One of the teachers, Mr awohael Antroibus. aged 23, said afterwards It was a terrifying experience. We started a sing-song and dance to stop the children getting scared." They -were taken to the police station and local hotels where they were given food and hot drinks. O'Neill scorn for Unionist hedgers By HAROLD JACKSON Mr Terence O'Neill, the Northern Ireland Prime Minister, launched a bitter attack on the dissident members of his Parliamentary-party last night after spending the 1 day canvassing for a candidate not officially chosen by his- constituency association, but favourable to the O'Neill line.

The Prime Minister has clearly decided to go over the top in the last few days of the general election campaign. In a statement last night he repudiated the rebels, and gave overt endorsement to unofficial pro-O'Neill men. Mr O'Neill accused the dissidents of dishonesty in voting to support him at a private party meeting, and trying to dislodge him shortly afterwards. "1 am told from some quarters that I must support these candidates in the name of' party unity. But if there is disunity it is they who have created it just as they sought to do in 1966.

It is they who, at a critical time for Unionism, the Government and Ulster, have broken ranks." Mr' O'Neill said it could not be pretended that a man's nomination -by 'a group of delegates absolved from -previous-lack of loyalty and consistency. "I will not be a party to the strange bargain of 'please support me, although of. course I can't I cannot endorse men who-nave Deen progressive in- pudiic out reactionary in private. Healing message "I do, not back those at this late stage, equivocate and hedge. I am unable to support Unionists who reject vital parts of the official election manifesto or whose words and deeds in the past are incompatible with its healine messaae.

I do support convinced and progressive Unionists whose support for the policies embodied in that manifesto is beyond doubt." Mr O'Neill said' that the sands of history were littered with the wrecks of once great' political parties which haveifailed to read the signs of changing times. The election did not show a potential, split in the Unionist Party, but a potential triumph of a wider unionism. "If there is any substance in opinion polls showing that this new unionism is favoured above all other party groupings by all sections of the population, then we can lift our Constitution to the -heights -on which it ought to stand above politics and- above contention." The order behind the chaos, page 10 1 mmmi if putting trouble in the way of local authorities. He spoke of rational difficulties, which he said were largely caused by a 60 per cent rise in Government spending over four years. Sir Robert Thomas, leader of the Labour group, did not rise to the propaganda bait from Alderman Fieldhouse.

But he said that while the domestic rate had been for two vears there had been a general rate increase of lOd in this time. It was all very well to refer to large economies, but what about the dangers of stagnation A Labour backbencher, Councillor Trevor Thomas, said the city was worried about the way it was being run by an incompetent, schizophrenic Tory administration." He alleged that incompetent Conservative committee chairmen, were unable to answer questions about their committees. In addition to fixing the general rate, the council approved a domestic water rate of Is 5d, an increase of 3d. Casino plan opposed MANX MPs yesterday blocked proposals for converting a sea-front ballroom in Douglas into the island's second casino next summer. The plan before Tynwald was for a low stake "working men's casino" but the games suggested were attacked.

"Douglas is becoming littered with gambling trash from one end to the other." MPs decided that the proposed casino regulations be sent back to the Government's gaming control board for reconsideration. MP in hospital Sir Robert Cary, 70-year-old Conservative MP for Withington, Manchester, was taken to hospital with a slight heart attack after in the Commons. Mr Tom Swain, aged 57, Labour MP for North-east Derbyshire, left hospital after chest tests. NORTHERN ENGLAND will be mainly cloudy with eriods of snow moving slowly N. to most parts during the day.

The remainder of England and Wales will be cloudy with periods of snow but in S. England snow is expected gradually to turn to sleet or rain before dying out. It will be cold in most places but becomin a little less cold in the extreme S. There will be frost at first with icy stretches on roads, and snow will drift in the strong E. winds.

Lortlon, I Out S.t S.W. Inclaml Channel Island IUalnl clod, occslonal mo, sleet 01 nlu, perhaps some frcczlns min locally a.t nrsi wind mainly SE rcesh, float oarly Inland rat-hcr cqM, SC. India, Midlands, Wales: Periods or snow moderate at tiinci wllih drifting, wind frcaii or stroae but sales In exposed cold, maximum temperature. 2.C. (06F NW, Certt.

FiiRUnd. Lnlo District, Icle or Man Cloudy uccailonol Enow at flrat tut periods or snow with local drlltlnE apreidln- Irrai wind frosh or sdons locally pale cold, mav-rciuni tempera iu (5CT Uorders, LdlnUursU, SW S.oUati0.r lser-deen GIjseois On IlisliJaid rirtli, catfiness, Orkney, Shetland Ireland Mainl cloudy occasional snow, but sleet near coisis fftnd Jtesn or it rons IncalU Eilc cold. maximum temp era tut-c. 2C o6F Ariryll. N.U.

Scotland- JTalnlp rj with suonr Intervals ulnd fresh or strons: cold maEraum tenpemurw 1C 1567 Outloiik. Mainly dry In the bttt occasional sleet or snow In moi other partv cnnilnulns cold in most dlsirlcis but less cold the extreme SEA. 3SSCES North Sea: Sea. very roush becoming rtmjph Strait of Dover, EnslHi Channel (El Sea, moderate or rough fat eorct's Channel, Jrish Sea: Sea ery rough. Around the world THE Peers are and not just about their own survival.

Yesterday, while the Commons were bickering on about' the future of the Lords, the Lords themselves were concerned with the future of us all: We are destroying our environment at an alarming rate, Lord Byers warned the House. Pollution, noise, traffic congestion, and thoughtless development are accelerating threats, and he knew of no adequate long-term plans for dealing with them. Such plans would inevitably be costly, and elections are not won on such programmes. While. Lord Byers was appreciative of those who are doing something to stem the tide, or at least to clean it up a little, it sounded a gloomy prospect before us.

He brought the prob lem home to their lordships by pointing out that there are times when "even in this House the drinking water tastes like something out of a farmyard." Yesterday was a bad day, it seemed. The water tasted absolutely horrible." A good many peers looked surprised at the news. Presumably they are tern-: perate water drinkers, if not total abstainers. Lord Rvers drove relentlessly on. What is being done about the motor menace, which has been authoritatively described as a national emergency Ail should report on methods of making 100 per cent mortgages available on the most attractive terms" to help corporation tenants and those in slum clearance areas to buy their homes." Later, Mr Sidney Shalhce," president of Manchester Municipal Officers' Guild, a branch of NALGO, said a reduction of staii through natural wastage would have an effect on those who remained.

He believed the branch would consider it reasonable, as a-basis for negotiation, that those who accepted additional responsibility should be upgraded and paid. Alderman Fieldhouse hoped the council would soon take steps to carry out his suggestions. These would help to increase the rateable value fthe surest way of raising the money needed to improve services. Reading his 21-page speech from a lectern, he gave what almost amounted to a sermon directed at the Government for we seemed to be doing about that was to run down our public transport, so that the frustrated traveller was encouraged to lay hands on the cheapest secondhand car in sight and add to the congestion. And what about making industry deal with its effluent properly? In his view we need to be far tougher in all directions with those who destroy and pollute our environment.

Firom the Opposition front bench Lord Newton did not sound eager for any more environmental planning than was absolutely unavoidable. National plan But there was an eloquent speech from the Bishop Norwich, reminding us that men, and even peers, are a part of nature, and that we are failing in our reverence for life. Animals are also part of our world and we ought to respect them more. We no longer have bull baiting but we do have factory farming. What the bishop wanted the Government to think about was a long-term national masterplan covering all aspects of our environmental needs He thought we also needed to do some long-term thinkine about population control.

Is there an optimum population for Britain At least the bishop had the consolation of learning that Lord Kennet, who answered for the Government would also welcome wide debate on that very point. However, we enjoy a relatively slow rate of. population growth and the Government is evidently not rushing to any conclusions. As to industrial pollution, Lord Kennet insisted that "this has to be seen as an international problem, since individual firms say their costs go up if they take unilateral action and they become less competitive. STOP PRESS At least one person killed in explosion which wrecked a 4-storey building in Bologna, Italy, last night.

Police searching in rubble for more than 20 other people who lived in building. The Guardian Telephones Manchester 061-634 L4S Teter 660OO. Glaumed. Advert! Bing. 061-852 9191 London: Ol-BS-T 7011.

837 7011, TClex No. 2G695, Cloudy with periods of snow WEATHER By RICHARD BOURNE our Education Correspondent The London School of Eeo- nomics won a reprieve last night On the first day of students voted by nearly two tfT one (686 votes to 380) against "an immediate and indefinite occupation" of the school and, by a larger margin, in favour pursuing their aims by non violent means. Although the tone of a 5i-hour union meeting was reasonable enough, the students still demanded that all 'court and internal disciplinary- action against staff, students, and employees should be dropped. rne union aiso wants an immediate independent inquiry into the archaic constitution of the school's Fancy-dress march; After a satirical fancy-dress march by militants in morning there was a subdued tension at the afternoon union meeting, conducted simultaneously in the Old and New Theatres and linked by loudspeakers. In -the New Theatre there was a concentration of moderates; but in the Old Theatre, scene of most of the classic oratorical struggles at LSE, militants were prominent-Professor Robert McKenzie was invited to explain his plan for a commission.

He advocated Ja two-stage independent commission, whose composition was acceptable to staff, students, and administration, which would consist in whole or in part of outsiders. This commission would decide quickly within a fortnight perhaps what changes had to be made to enable -members of the school to continue working together. Around Britain Sun- Max-juae iva temp. Weather WEST COAST hr In. C.

F. tdn Douslas 2 SS Cloudy Morecambe 0 7 2 Cloudy niau.pooi Sc'jtbpori t-oIw-Mt IJandudno 1 cX Cloudy 2 35 Ooudj i 2 35 Cloudy 2 .3 r'nurlv 15 2 56 Cloudy 1 11 t-ston-s-Mirc lnracotnDe Scilly .04 2 Sno .48 45 RalD CYST COST Scarborough Kndhnclan I-ouesUf. Clacion-oti-Sea tthllitablc. items Eayt 2 35 1 34 0ercaai 2 5- Cloud 57 Clonic: 2 Overcast 2 55 Cloudy SOUTIt COAST Folkestone. JUitlnrs Dnkhton Worthing Li Ule lump ton Bojator Kesls.

Soulliea Sjndivun Shiukhn cntnor Bournemouth. rvole leunoulli. moDlh Tcisnmouth l'enrance. 'crc Gncrnsey. Boss-on-tt SCOTHXD I eruKk Wick slurnowjiy iviiitoss Tce Tiree LfflKlUK Glaccir .12 154 Soo-w .08 1 53 Scicttv .15 2 35 Suoa 4 40 tlOC-J 2 3d Snow .28 2 35 SQv 05 2oi SrW 0 37 Snow .03 2 5b Slecx .08 2 Snow .15 1 34 siect ,07 2 3t Sr.OT.

2 36 Sno. 5 37 .09 3 37 Skct 02 1 35 Sio ,26 5 57 Snow 59 42 fU'n 92 4 59 R-Urt ,58 5 41 Rain i 34 Overcasl 3 37 Snow 5 37 Snow 4 51 5Unn- 2 36 Sunny 3 57 S110 59 Cloud? 57 Snow 4 59 Sleet 0 52 Snov .02 04 OUTHEB-N IRELAND Belfast 0 7 2 06 Snow 1 Manchester Airport Readlnjts lor 24 hou-s endlnr 10 p.m EST Tempe-ralurcs Maximum 55.8F. (lOC.k. minimum 30 9F (-0 6O KalnfaU, trace: sunshine, 0 3 hrs. BIGS WATER TISIES EST BST" London Bridge 5 06 am.

5 58 pm. Literpocl 2 23m. 2 41pm. Blackpool 2 24 am. 2o7pm Kesen'eij Printed publish Dj GuxnUon 1 192 craya Inn Rood.

hewspapeu Ltd London 1 cd 3 Ctcas StxMt. tADOliCEtcr M60 3S.136 Tltursdav February 20, 1969. -fez vmm NoorvFeb.20f Snow report AdelbodE-n A I pinch uKelburs jMcilonu St Anion McrlLZ Seetcld Vlll.ir.. Wtuzen 75 Fair 40 Cood 51 Good 4 0 60 Cood f.2 Good "2 F.ur 713 Good 41 Good F.ihn FliK Fin 1. 1 wlm RcPh suppiico by repi the Club oC Srltam The iicm ether sources: I KNCE A )c d'Hucz 68 152 Gaad 30 144 Good Aiuraus 32 48 Gwid ChainoniT 50 144 Good Cliamroursc 52 SO Good CourchtvU 50 63 Good La 4JQ 120 Good J.es deu Alpts 52 92 Good Lcs Gets 56 74 Cood Megctc 60 11S Good Meribct 46 76 Good iMcrcnn.

32 ll'i Fair St Gen 3. 24 88 Coed Val lo Good Fluo Cloud Fa.tr Cloud Flu rnu Cioud Tine Clxid Ootid K'ne F.nc GoCfi Flue oO 1') 7 37 Fins actio Gt) 1 Uiehammer Oslo Voss -1G Good 3ti Good Good "5 Good b7 Good 47 G00O Fair Falr Cloud Snot. Filr Fine SUN EST Rises 8 18am Ses62Sp.m, EST 9 27 a.m. 11 44 5 50 a.m, rises (Manchester) Sets First Qtr. Feb, 24, LIGHTING -CI TIMES 7 01pm to 7 49 am, Manchester 6 5E m.

to 7 46 a m. Satellites Wh When visible cis TAG I OS 19 51-19 5B XV 2i-20ol NKW 50'W AKltl 3 20 05-20 10 Scottish ski report CatriiKorms. Mam runs General sno.v eoor; ne-u 511 ow. firm uac Lou cr runs 1.600ft- Accxsj. roadi Stlutit S.UOW bleifehee and Glencoc No repci Forecast: Scattered slioer, snot inaLiii In fceezloc a.t all levels; stvou: v-ind London readings From 7 ni Tuesday to 7m Yesterday Minimum ioiurieMturt.3 1C (54T Rainfall nooe nr.re I-mm 7 a onto 7 vcsiexd-i Maximum tciupe-titurea 1C, (54F), fU inall O0Jln.

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F. C-2 28 Ij-1on F12 54- 15 55 London 12 54 tVtr. Cent. 1 o4 2 06 Lotvdtm 7 45 Alriwrt 1j4 -2 28 Lirieinlj S11. -2 2b F10 50 Madrid 12 34 0 32 Majorca 17 fa3 Sn 154 MalJiRa.

CIG61 C-2 28 MalU lb til 1 54 Manchester 1 54 Sn 1 54- Motttte.il Sn -1 3D 134 Moscow F-6 21 Su-130 Munich 52 Sn-2 28 Naples C16 '2 36 hew York S3 1 54 256 Vec 8 46 F16 61 OUo S-5 23 8 46 Tuns 57 Sit -2 2B I'ncwc -2 28 17 65 ltcjltj iklr -6 21 5 41 Itflmo 15 59 16 61 ltomldsttay 2 3b Tl 3 57 MftcUiolui Sn -5 2ii F-1112 Toronto OoLl 4 39 cniLP Dr 2 36 3 57 feint Sn 1 34 19 66 Wamw -6 21 Dr 0 32 1 Zurich lol Amsterdam tthens flu red on a. UclfT.st Itelrrailo I'-. rJnt ItlarrltE lUrtiitusuaiB Ilriuscls Kudapebt Cardiff tltiicuE' Colociio ApniliaKcri I din bur ch I an riorcnce i' ratmturt Funclial Oenoxa Olbtjltnr UtTTWy Retilnki ImibbruUc Jersey iocarno Schoolchildren from Rochdale on their way to a rescue vehicle yesterday after the coach in which they: were coming home from a half-term trip to London was itranded in the sriow on the moors above Greenfield) near Oldnam.