Throughout the strike of the Manila Public School Teacher’s Association (MPSTA), nothing was more disgusting than the sight of the MPSTA president, Mr. Guillermo Alday, sabotaging teacher’s efforts to obtain those benefits which had long been promised them.

Mr. Alday assured president Marcos that classes would not be disrupted, minimized the number of schools at which classes were not being held, described the thousands of striking teachers as "a splinter group," disauthorized MPSTA Vice-President Anne Rose Roxas from representing the organization, and finally ousted Ms. Roxas herself from the MPSTA Board.

But the teachers rejected Mr. Alday. The MPSTA chapter presidents passed a vote of no confidence in him and all members of the MPSTA board, except Ms. Roxas.

Tacitly confirming Mr. Alday’s impotence, neither Minister Jaime Laya nor Vice-Governor Ismael Mathay treated Mr. Alday as the teacher’s representative.

Rejected by both sides, a decent man would resign. But then, a decent man would not have acted the way Mr. Alday has.
 

J. Pedrosa Ramas