as Jack Jones. "Never before has there been such a again. He might also have added:
the 1930s.
stanearos since inessus by-elections since the 1930s.
return to the 1930s!
Labour Government.
to the control of inflation' looks a sick joke.
Tories out'.
National Party. that Edward Heath did with his industrial Relations Act the cost of the crisis.
movement.
bringing down this Government and bringing back the Tories.
NION LODGE TEL 'There is only one way out. That is the path of continuing alliance between the Labour Government and the trade union movement.' There is no-one in the labour movement who returns to this theme so consistently close working relationship between the trade unions and a government.' There he goes * NEVER HAS THERE BEEN such a high rate of unemployment since NEVER HAS THERE BEEN such a drop in working class living * NEVER HAS THERE BEEN such a heavy drop in the Labour vote in The aim of this alliance with the Labour Government is of course... no But emperor Jones's clothes are wearing a little thin. He promised that in its wake the Social Contract would bring control of inflation, ful employment, maintenance of social services, a legislative programme for the working class, and a guarantee of the stability and long life of the PRICES RISING None of these promises have been fulfilled. In particular, with prices rising at a rate of 19.7 per cent per annum in the last three months, his claim that the present pay policy 'has made an outstanding contribution Just how Alice in Wonderland is the world which Mr Jones inhabits becomes clear when he is forced to backpedal on TUC policy for ar orderly return to free collective bargaining by the end of 1977, with Callaghan dropping the word in his speech in Parliament last Wednesday.
The truth is that Jack Jones will drop anything in his campaign to keep Callaghan, Healey and Co. in government. He is now reduced to saying that the reason why his members should support this stand is to keep the But of course the reverse is true of Jack Jones s surrender of his membership to the Labour Government. The policies which Jack Jones so uncritically supports are producing increasing bitterness within the contract or empiovment ano me waces are abvsmanv ow backward sections of the class, into the arms of the nationalists, the Tories, and the extra-parliamentary boot-boys of the National Front and NOT STUPID Why does Jack Jones do these things? He is not stupid. He can see the writing on the walls of Walsall as well as anybody else. The truth is that he supports this Government through self-interest, because a Labour Government with those of Callaghan's ilk in the leadership will not under today's conditions attack the trade unions and their bureacracy in the way The second reason is the complete lack of clarity of the reformists as a whole on the way out of the crisis. Any solution depends on the answer one gives to the following question: Who is to bear the cost of the economic crisis — the workers or the bosses? The social democrats pretend that there is a solution which can unite both through import controls, higher investment, etc. This failure to take a clear class position leads them in practice to support solutions which are purely in the interests of capital — in other words, which make the working class bea For both these reasons an alternative needs to be built in the trade unions - a left wing based on class struggle policies as opposed to the politics of colaboration; a class struggle left wing which is independent ot the narrow interests or the bureaucracy, with a leadersnip wnich righis for full accountability at all levels in the trade union and labour That is the only alternative to the way that Jack Jones is currently