Food prices allowed to leap

SHAME FOR TRADE UNIONISM TUC Street Feath er, Sir Jack Heath laws.

Wages are Only the day before Prime enter talks with Heath on Phase Three pay control is to participate in deliberate slashing of the real value of their members' wages.

Labour Party leaders announce that their policy document will contain no calls whatever for in the Press, fizzled out into nothing. Property and profits are sacrosanct to the Social Democrats of both right and left variety.

But the more Labour and trade become, the more the Tories get.

demanded an all-out onslaught on the working class, including intensified legal control of wages, smaller pay increases, higher rents, expanded profits, freedom for prices and a 'confrontation' if the union leaders didn't toe the line.

its statutory control of wages, said the 'Telegraph':

'What the government should ›e seeking is not so much a voluntary system as tacit TUC acquiescence in—if not explicit consent to-a Stage Three policy in which the element of compulsion will still be dominant? For the TUC leaders to And while this is going on, the The 'left-wing fight' blown up craven the union leaders aggressive do Yesterday's 'Daily Telegraph' The government must continue The Tory paper stressed that there must be 'good profits' while 'on wages, the government has little to give'. Not only should pay rises be smaller in Phase Three than in Phase Two but:

'Mr Heath and his colleagues •.. will, we hope, resist demands for a more rigorous and comprehensive control of prices, with profits restricted • still further, food subsidies, the abandonment of council rent increases, further drastic squeezing of pay differentials, emasculation of the already fairly impotent Industrial Relations Act and so on.' If the TUC won't accept all that, then , 'confrontation, however, bitter would surely be better than the complete abandonment of economic freedom. At the back of his mind, Mr Heath must surely be prepared for that possibility.' The hard-line Tories are strengthened in their determination to solve their economic crisis at the expense of the working class by the complete failure of Feather, Wilson and company to lead any fight against them.

Behind the TUC and the Labour Party Shadow Cabinet stands the Communist Party. The 'Morning Star' declared on Tuesday: MORE basic foods are dearer, as are textile and steel. • Van i Den Bergh and Jurgens will be allowed to put up margarines and cookIng fats by 6 per cent. This means more expensive Blue Band, Stork, Echo, Outline, Spry, Cookeen, White Cap and Spry Crisp and Dry.

The two main grounds on which price increases are supposed to be granted are financlal dificulties and risIng costs of raw materials.

But the firm permitted to holst Its prices in margarines and cooking fats is a part of the Unilever Group. And Unilever this week announced a 25-per-cent in'There is much in the new lized to draft policy document which the break of Labour Party leaders are discuss- Tories. ing which could provide the basis The u for an advance in democracy and forced t‹ living standards in this country.' free neg It was the Stalinists, advised unions ar by their industrial organizer sary by Bert Ramelson, who voted both Strike at last September's Trades Union political Congress and at this tions for National Committee or year's ernment AUEW for formulas which permitted talks with the Tories to continue.

The 'Morning Star' has consistently and deliberately misled its readers about the purpose of these talks.

The labour and trade union leaders, with the assistance of the Stalinists, are leading the working class into a Phase Three Tory trap, in which living standards and democratic rights will be dangerously undermined.

The entire labour and trade union movement must be mobicrease in earnings in the first three months of 1973 £63.9m, compared £51.1m in 1972.

Operating profits shot up 20 per cent-from £53.2m to £63.8m.

As for rising costs, the 'Daily Telegraph' announced yesterday:

'Unilever appears to have been quite clever at anticipating the sharp rise in the price of raw materials, notably olls, fats and meat, and by buying forward last year it has so far avoided drastic cost Increases while freeze price Increases. Pro- continuing to enjoy No wonder the 'Tale graph'ó' Cly Comment could demand that the talks with the nion leaders must be • defend the right of otiations between the nd employers, if necesan indefinite General hich would create the and industrial condimaking the Tory govresign.

TROTSKYISM AND STALINISM—a new starts our copy now 01-622 702 eries by Michael Banda say that they were 'celebrating a happy day in the stock market. • Others with cause for rejoicing included Robertson's Jams, granted permission to put up jam by ip per jar, marmalade by 1łp, lemon curd by 1p and mincemeat by 4p. • Nabisco can now put up the price of Shredded Wheat, Shreddies and Golden Nugget breakfast cereals. • Steel producers given the green light on price hikes are British Steel Corporation, Guest Keen and Nettlefold, Tube Investments and Firth-Vickers. TUC chiefs who went into 10 Downing Street yesterday to continue the talks they have been having behind the backs of the trade union movement. Above: The engineers' • president Hugh Scanlon (I) and transport union secretary Jack Jones. Top: TUC secretary Victor Feather and railmen's union secretary Sir in Monday's Press - Order 01-622

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