Crossman_ Cr Callaghan?

On Sunday, Mr, Crossman said that Government should see the September product} ion figures as a warning - and well he might. The drop of three points in the production figures is well-nigh catastrophic. Wht has happened to Mr. George Brown's "Plan"? ‘hat has happened to the promise that "Labour would ‘get Britain going’? It seems scarcely possible that Labour won the 1964 , election, ending the 13 years of Tory rule, on a programme of doing away with the Tory "stop-go" policy. Perhaps they have! Perhaps we now a vista of "stop-go=back" instead. The figures not only revealed a huge decline but. also that the most severely hit industry was engineering; so much for Mr. Wilson's shake-out! 3 But if Mr. Crossman spoke of the Government seeing these figures as a warning, Mr, Callaghan made it clear that so far as he was concerned the brakes are still on. He also confirmed the worst fears of trade unionists by speaking of unemployment "settling down" to about half-a-million,. This followed by the Government's post freeze plans, amounts to the most ferocious attack made on the working class in this country since Baldwin said wages: must come down, There is more to this than that, however: Mr. Wilson is now making a mess of things from a purely capitalist point of view. This is bound to have a political reflection in the near future, Perhaps the differences between the approach of Mr. Crossman and Mr, Callaghan indicate an incipient dispute as to the best way to run British capitalism. For the left there can be only one question: how best to forge a united front to fight the bart et's policies. From this follows the need to work out a programme and/an alternative leadership to the existing right wing Cabinet clique. It is the height of Blly to consider these as merely mistaken men. They must be fought and replaced.