P207 CEEFAX 207  Mon  3 Nov  21:15/48
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 As many as 250,000 children are thought
 to have had their schooling disrupted  
 this afternoon bz a teachers' strike.  
                                        
 More than 15,000 teachers in London,   
 Humberside and Lincolnshire took part  
 in the action called bz the union of   
 schoolmasters and women teachers over  
 the Govjrnmjnt's pay offer.            
                                        
 Education Secretary Mr Kenneth Baker   
 condemned the strike as "scandalous"   
 and said the pay offer was gjnjrous.   
                                        
 Mrs Shirley Williams, the President of 
 the SDP, called for a secret ballot of 
 teachers to resolve their long-running 
 pay dispute.