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BRITAIN'S OWN WATERGATE CRISIS HEATH-WILSON CARVEUP EXPOSED

By Alex Mitchell

Workers Press no. 1082, 26 May 1973 · scan page 2

Topics: Tory government, Labour Party, United States

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grave,' he said, 'and it must be dealt with immediately by Mr Heatin' It is clear that the only thing that keeps Heath in office is the cowardice of the Labour and trade union leaders.

Instead of mobilizing the strength of the workers' movement against the Tories, Wilson helps them at the point where they are exposed as being helplessly weak, divided and utterly demoralized.

Wilson rushed to the rescue and unequivocally accepted Heath's statement in the Commons on Thursday.

But the statement must be totally rejected because it is shot through with contradictions and double talk. For our part, we don't believe him.

Heath told the House: 'On the information available to me-and I have been kept fully informed-I can tell the House that there are no grounds for supposing that any other Minister or member of the public service is involved.' Does anyone seriously accept this! His statement to MPs is about as 'full and frank' as President Nixon's successive statements on Watergate!

Let's take one item of evidence which explodes what Heath had to say. On Thursday the main story in 'The Times' carried this banner headline: 'Call-girl dossier names two other ministers'-that is to say, two besides Lambton, who had already resigned.

The article said: The police are looking for two men who may have material connecting two other ministers with the affair.' We now know that one of these ministers was Earl Jellicoe, the Lord Privy Seal. But who is the other?

It may be said that "The Times' made a 'mistake' and that its lead story was incorrect. We don't believe so. On these grave issues, the Wollbeloved establishment Press doesn't commit errors of fact.

Nor is 'The Times' the only paper to say that there are others involved.

During this week most of the Fleet Street Press has referred to a total of three ministers being implicated and the highest estimate is four, if you include the inLUNTAS «LY HANWORTN discretions of a jur or ister in Heath's ter m.

We have proof that all the national dailies are preparing biographies of two ministers, one of them a Cabinet member, whose names may be forced into the open in the next few days.

The other prominent person yet to be named is a wealthy duke, a leading member of the Tory Party, who lives on estates in the After Heath's hypocritical statement we heard from Labour leader Harold Wilson.

He praised the discredited peers who had resigned and expressed sympathy for Heath.

He then said he would be glad to collaborate with Heath in getting the affair switched to the safety the Security where it could be dealt with IS THE LUMPE behind closed doors.

But Wilson's most astonishing outburst was this:

I can certainly indicate that the discussion [with Heath], as far as I will be concerned, will be utterly constructive. This does not mean there will be any carve-up between Mr Heath and myself.' We don't believe Wilson either.

there has a carve-up.

And the people being carved up are the millions of people in the labour and trade union movement who have suffered almost three years of Heath rule: • Skyrocketing prices resulting in a sweeping attack on the standard of living of working-class families.

TURN TO BACK PAGE CUBELL MOTORWAY building at Sunbury, Surrey, has come to a stanastili over a claim for guaranteed bonus earnings.

Cubitt's workers on the M3, who say their pay can fluctuate by up to £15 from week to week under the present bonus system, struck last Friday. as part of the national protest against

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