Crossman Drops the Veil

The truth is out: those of us (including Ian Mikardo) who said that the incomes policy of the Government was suspiciously like Mussolini's corporate-state policies have had powerful vindication. This has come in an indirect manner from, of all people, Richard Croseman. When he said that there can be no return to the freefor-all which existed before July 20th, he revealed that the Cabinet mean to permanently regulate wages with the full force of the law. Gone is any pretence that the wage freeze is a temporary measure designed to meet a crisis situation. Crossman's (deliberate?) slip of the tongue must be used in the erowing campaign to defeat the Wilson Government at “righton. As we show on page 6, the tiny majority gained for the Government at the Dlackpool TUC Conference was achieved purely and simply because two unions - USDAW and NUM - defied all rationality by voting both ways on the vital questions of the wage freeze and legal sanctions aszainst unions; another completely and utterly defied its conference policy. Every nerve must be strained to reverse these decisions; every organisation which is coing to be represented at the Drighton Labour Party Conference must be forced to face up to the questions: Are they going to throw their vote behind measures designed to permanently shackle the unions in this country? Are they going to support this Government in introducing measures which will be an ideal weapon for a future Tory Government? Or are they going to remain true to the traditions of the Labour Party - the party which was created to defend trade union rights = by throwing out the incomes policy, the wage freeze and all anti trade union measures? We must go all out to defeat Wilson at Prighton.