S.o.g.a.t. Slates Wilson's "tory Policies"

In a pamphlet being circulated among its 220,000 members the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades accuses the Government of "pursuing Tory policies". SOGAT's members in the daily newspaper industry have been given notice by the Department of Economic Affairs that the Government intends to forbid payment of a 2s-a-week cost-of-living bonus. In the pamphlet SOGAT's executive states: "We oppose the wage freeze, therefore, because it is based upon an erroneous policy; in short the Government is pursuing Tory policies. Should we give up our trade union rights and responsibility for such policies? SOGAT says No! The Government Ministers have said they had no wish to use compulsion, but who put the restriction and freeze laws on the Statute? Who brought them in? SOGAT did not; the Government did, and they did so with clear intent, i.e. to use them to restrain wages and trade union activity by compulsion. "The Government Ministers have been blackmailing the TUC and the whole movement for over a year by threatening that unless they acquiesce they will be compelled by law. We in SOGAT are not just knockers at the Government, we are genuinely worried when we hear Government Ministers say that free collective bargaining has come to an end and that the Government will now intervene. If the pattern is to be shown by the NPA bonus, if it is not paid, then over the short period involved, this puts £40,000 straight. into the pockets of the newspaper proprietors. But millions of pounds are involved elsewhere in industry. Are prices being reduced as a result? No, on the contrary, they continue to rise without legal restriction; increased dividends and profits prevail."