Well, the 6,000 who demonstrated against Varley didn't SEC that way: for us, the Social Contract was the issue.
Because for two years now the official "leadership' of the labour movement have workers' wages, hospitals, schools and houses name of the Social Contract. They have cynically used the traditional loyalty workers have towards a Labour government to pursue policies thing supposed party stands for.
Well, we at Longbridge have had enough. The signs held up Jor VanEy Jones and Scanlor to see said, 'Scrap the Social Con-trick'.
The demonstration necessary because, like millions others, workers Longbridge have been denied the right to express their views on wnal a Labour government and a trade union leadership say mey are coing in our name and in our interests. They have tried to sell their rotten poll. cies by holding up the spectre of the return of a Tory government.
That is the biggest con-trick of all. It was not 'greedy' car WORKerS - Lonabridae allowed the to by-election sweeping les; it is not the cuts in our real wades that have caused the week-by-week price rises; it was not us who created the dole queue of two million men Varley, ano women. Was Jones, Scanion and the like -it is their policies which opening door tor TONIES answcre cut BRIAN HERON, steward at British Leyland, Longbridge, and IMG candidate in Stechford election opponents of the Social Contract are not limited to extremiSTS press love to witch-hunt; now Iney was thousands.
The opposition to the Tory at policies of the Labour Government and the TUC is growing daily. Now it needs organised.
A who gain victor- TO are FOR their class Jones's shop Fleet Street to be ALAN FISHER, the oh-so-left secretary Union of Public Employees, has called for a halt to the growing campaign to ditch Last weekend he union leaders to "wait and see what was on orler further year of incomes Fisher argued that a 'free for all" only benefits those biggest muscle' There is no doubt that Fisher's arguments carry Simply demanding Labour's incomes answer. Rather, militants need to oiter tneir own incomes poncy a socialist alternative to the Social Contract. MINI WAGES WONT BUY
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Photo: DAVE EVANS (IFL) discuss was his, Scanlon's and
Last Friday Eric Varley, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon paid us a visit. Eric Varley told us it was a "fact finding' mission, but the one "fact' he was not prepared to