THE SIXTY DAY hearing Into the case of the six Tyndale teachers has resulted in a sentence of instant dismissal. The charge was that the teachers took strike action.
The finding of the Disc plinary Tribunal is subject only to ratification by an Inner Loodon Education Authority Sub-Committee As it was the Labour maiority of the ILEA who Insisted that the grounds for dismissal be the teachers strike, only strong solidarily action on the Tyndale teachers behalf is likely to 6 change their mind original of the moves - the Tyndale teachers was their teaching metbods in the classroom. Both the Auld Inquiry, originally appointed by ILEA to look the case, Disciplinary Tribunal ag proach favoured the advancement of the deprived working class child.
ISSUE Unwilling to raise such a dear class issue as the reason for the sackings, the Tribunal reverted instead to anti-trade unionism and a frontal attack on the right to take industrial action.
The main reason for the the demand that they should be allowed to cantinue teachine without har assment from the press, the ILEA bureaucrats and the managers of the school. They demanded the right to work in a way specifically bineticial to the workine class child.
PAPER POLICY Labour-controlled ILEA have a paper policy of discrimination in lavodE of the deprived child.
The Auld Inquiry and the Disciplinary Tribunal were set up by the ILEA. The charges were brought by the ILEA. The Tribunal jadges were all members of the ILEA with the exception of Gary Flather, ibe chairmerson, who was an em player of the ILEA.
The manner of the 'trials" was a farce.
Tyndale teachers stood in the "dock" they were brand ed 'guilty by one of the most unbridled press cam paigns of recent years.
On an Open University programme to be broadcast this month, Max Wilkinson, former staff writer on the Daily Mail and leader of the witch-hant, admits that the press were out to get *Inspect not the NOT House, Euston Road, NWI Monday 9 May u The main object of the meeting will be to set up a defence campaign and to sock out the policies and Tactics for such a campaign.
Dorothy McColgan, one of the teachers, will chair the meeting. The platfort will include Terry Ellis and the rest of the зіл, Hurford from Rank File Teachers and Margare Ford of the Socialist Teachers Alliance, both of whom ate members of the original defence committee