the dirty by committing sulcide.
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will reveal all those who are recsiving Iabour movement the general secretary is elected for ille!
register accessiblo lo all trade unionisis. HAROLD WILSON ended his political career in a blaze of unsavoury publicity. Even the Honours Committee, a body whose members are not chosen for their keen critical facultles but merely to rubber-stamp peerages and knighthoods, felt constrained to reject some of Wilson's choices: It must have been an Intolerable snub for a man who takes these things very seriously. But even the Honours Committee was not to know that one of Wlison's new knighte, the property tycoon Sir Eric Miller, would de Miller's decision abruptly to terminate his life forced even the tame Fleet Street press lo comment on the corruption in British society. It would be trite to remark that capitaliam Is corrupt and leave it at that, for what in ralsed is the widespread corruption in the British labour This exists at every level. It is a cancer on local poramment as the Poulson case and numerous others aince have revealed. Labour counciliors are invoived in deals with small and big businesses In Scotland, Wales. the North East and elsewhere. Trade union officials are not exempt either, as our story on Gormlay in "News from Jack Jones' speech highlighting the extent of the corruption and the Ilfe-style of the present Labour isaders (Healey has just bought on a new house for the paitry sum of E65,000] is Interesting, but doesn't lead anywhere. Moral exhortations publicise the disease, but offer no As far as the labour movement is concerned these curee do exist and we will try and enumerate them. in the first. Instance the oft-derided demand to 'Open The Books should be fought for by all trades unionists. Not only will It reveal the profit margins of the rich and near-rich, but it nana Dus.
Secondly, the current revelations raise the question of accountability. The recall of all full-time officials in the starting with Labour MPs and extending to local counclliors and trade union officials -by those who alected them should be vigorously fought for and incorporated into the demands of all bodies of the labour movement. If he wanted to be consistent, Brother Jones should and the abeurd situation in his own union:
Thirdly, all full-time labour movement officlals should declare their assets, which should be recorded in a Numerous allegations have been made regarding Callaghan's linke with the Welsh banker Julian Hodge. This man well-known as a thoroughly unscrupulous boas and his Involvement In the pyramid selling schemes"
bankrupted thousands of West Indiana in the Midlands has already been documented in Private Eye. The national press knows of Callaghan's links with Hodge, but prefers to keep silent because those who own It are members of the Club and it Is not the done thing to rel on a fellow I Erie Miller's sulcide generates a real movement to root out corruption in the labour movement then the dark knight who while alive made his millions by ruthisaaly exploiting others will, in death, have done Britiah labour a service - the only one for which he should be rewarded.