Union Group Asks for End Of Strike Rule

Elimination of the "no strike" pledge from the American Federation of Teachers constitution was recommended to the union's national executive council by the Teachers Union in a regular meeting yesterday.

Condemning the Club 100 for discriminatory practices in another resolution, Local 431 became the first faculty group to support the earlier student-wide protest. "The policy of the student committee is in complete accord with our own previous stands on racial questions," a Union spokesman said.

Convention This Summer

Although only three percent of the member locals have thus far gone on record against the "no strike" pledge, consideration of the ruling is expected to be taken up in a national convention this summer.

Viewing action being taken throughout the country by teachers groups, the Cambridge local felt that it could no longer endorse a ruling that restricted the bargaining power of teachers unions. Despite the constitutional clause, the AF to T governing committee did not condemn participation of some of its locals in recent strikes in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Buffalo, New York.

After voting on the two resolutions, the teachers group heard Stephen Fischer of the San Francisco Chronicle, who is studying here as a Nieman Fellow, discuss general union topics.