At Stoke-on-Trent 200 children marched to the education officer and handed in a petition with 600 signatures calling for the teachers’ pay demands to be accepted.
Members of the Birmingham young socialists organization distributed leaflets in the Northfield area urging children to join the National Union of School Students. The leaflets said: “School students have rights, too”.
A recruiting meeting has been called for next Tuesday in a building normally used by shop stewards at Leylands’ Longbridge plant.
Tim Jones writes from Cardiff:
The line of boys standing outside the headmaster’s office at Barry comprehensive school yesterday afternoon maintained that they were unwilling participants in the wave of disturbances which have swept schools in Wales since teachers began their sanctions.