The leadership of the Scottish Trades Union Congress has long posed as his delegation's rejection of the EmerThe 'new' social contract which was to have been decided last Monday by the TUC and Labour Government is too 'wordy'. It won't be issued until after next month's meeting. ment has not been sufficiently brow-beaten into accepting the new wage controls. Callaghan's speech at the shopworkers' conference promised real wage cuts for all, and the icing is fast crumbling off the uneatable cake. Campaigns against incomes policy like the one in Birmingham (see elsewhere on this page) are starting to gain ground.
Healey's setback is not for want of powerful allies. Jack Jones, thoroughly alarmed by the appearance of a fighting programme at the STUC, waded in to sort out the troublemakers. But apparently the job was not done thoroughly enough. Len Murray expressed painful surprise that the sight of trade union leaders grovelling at the service of capital had not halted the run on the pound. The real reason is that the trade union move.