-NO! boss, Jack Jones.
can do a job for them that no one else in the labour movement is capable of at present. He delivered the lion members - on a platter to the The Financial Times is very grudging about bestowing accolades on trade union lefts. But on Saturday 5 July it gushed forth its praise of T&GWU As the Financial Times heartily welcomed Jones into the fold of capitalist responsibility it recorded with a hearty sigh of relief 'the end of his "twinship" with Scanlon' — not to mention the dreaded Scargill.
The ruling class know that Jones their own members.
heads of the T&GWU - Britain's biggest union, involving almost two milThe ruling class are clear that their plans for wage cuts, reductions in pub What is more they know that the deep dissatisfaction and growing disenchantment of the trade union rank and file bait bureaucracy if any of the real and inmovement challenged the Wilson leadtogether PLEAS FOR UNITY 'Britain' be saved.
Jones's pleas for unity echo. the As the Economist whether Mr Wilson has the resolution pubGod forbid, for that would but to This was a real cry from the heart cratic. class. They know that only a Labour Government has the chance of selling a statutory incomes policy. The shadow of the miners' strikes of 1972 and Nor have they any confidence that a successful coalition can be established right now. They know that amongst Labour Party members PAY LAWS Pay laws put forward by either a For coalition Government would crumble into the dust of an offensive from the working class. The hope of prepare the ground. Hence their fear of resignations from the Government if there was just one or two resignations shudder through a party where there is already much disquiet......unease is not confined to the far left. A numanxiously over their shoulder at the Jones by his role has performed a He has helped to avoid any split from sure that Benn and Foot have remained the 'happy' prisoners of the Cabinet. He has got Britain's biggest uners pay claim. movement. Furthermore it has made it harder for the powerful sections of the T&GWU to fight Healey's cuts and even more rignt-wing trade union leaders to dampen down the struggles of trade union leaders to dampen down the struggles of their own members.
Yesterday's hero of the parliamentary lefts and darling of the Morning Star has rendered his services to the ruling class. But his behaviour should come as no surprise. He did not make some sudden deviation from an hitherto unblemished path but he simply made further strides along the path he has always walked.
When the ruling class and its Labour Party allies looked around for the the man to tie the unions to the chariot of the ruling class Jones was easy Benefit of any solutions other than Parliament he naturally advocates a Social Contract. His beliefs are bedded in the theory that only by pulling workers and bosses - can LEGISLATION He can only see socialism coming as a result of 'better legislation. To him the trade unions are there to persuade the legislators or at the most exert pressure on them. Shaped ed by the T&GWU bureaucracy - his own job is one for life - surrounded by non-elected officials who are dependent on his bureaucratic machine for survival, he is at best paternalistic, at worst authoritarian and anti-demo Having no confidence in the working class to challenge capitalism he has no replies or alternatives to offer to the ravaging crisis of capitalism. His are the politics of manipulation As Red Weekly goes to press the vote has not been taken on the vital min lutely central task of the workers' movement will be to develop maximum solidarity with the miners' struggle. Red Weekly in its next issue will carry a full report on the NUM conference. MAN OF THE WEEK
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which is why he keeps his cloth cap in the pocket of his blue-serge suit to