Scanlon - Powell radio chat AN ANTI-WORKING CLASS SCANDAL

HUGH broadcast questions of vital importance for the questions trade union and working-class movePowell is an extremely reactionary politician who has embarked on a carefully-calculated plan to gain a foothold amongst more backward sections of workers to add to his following among sections of the middle class.

By indulging in an amiable discussion last Friday night on first-name terms with Powell in the widely-heard 'Any Questions' show, and in front of an audience of British-Leyland car workers, engineering union president Scanlon has provided the right-wing Tory with just the sort of platform he is now seeking.

Powell plans to gather round himself all the most reactionary elements, including racialists and near-fascists, in preparation for launching a new party to take advantage of the rapidlyScanion (above) and Powell appeared together on Radio 4's 'Any Questions' along with British-Leyland's Lord Stokes last Friday. • See Review page 10. ENGINEERS' union members at the Cyfarthfa, Merthyr Tydfil, Triang factory return to work today having won the reinstatement of two sacked workers convener Arthur Jones and Bill Orchard.

radio ith Enoch Powell raises For the developing economic crisis.

He has already set in motion a campaign to win away from the Heath leadership large sections of the Tory traditionalists in the shires on the issue of British sovereignty and the Common Market. He has made the same play on the immigration issue.

Powell carefully kept quiet on the Lambton-Jellicoe affair in order not to offend these sections. He dismissed the Lonrho scandal as unimportant in order further to identify with the powerful colonial interests in the Tory Party.

His campaign for allowing the forces of the free market to sort out the economic problems, regardless of how much unemployment is caused, is also winning support.

Powell's new moves represent the most dangerous threat to the working class since the growth of the Mosleyite movement in the 1930s. THE CHRYSLER strike hardened still further with pickets from the Ryton he CHRYSLER strike hardenea still turiner at coventry yesterday, with pickets trom the Ryton assembly plant stopping all transport in and out of the engine pant a Stoke. Ryton shop siewards laid detailed Hugh Scanlon must be asked plans for their picketing campaign, for instance at the Cosford Green railhead (above). Meanwhile the what he is doing helping provide speed-up battle spread to Ford's—see storles pages 12 and 3. Powell with a foothold in the trade union and labour movement. Debating Powell's chauTHE {1,184.00 on came in Wordswort £25: Crewien {10: vinist demagogy and ethnic rubwith top. 220: nerage bish with polite respect is to BUILDING FUND Considerat Harrow Toớti make them seem reasonable. achievement and easily the Basildon £11.75: Sirixion £30: By a Scontinua on of the role most outstanding raising icton EBD: Scptland er og campaian of the Socialist Labou Artists £11; Battersea 925. Porte. the TUC leaders are already playWE'VE League. mouth Chatham Rio North ing ; in going to Downing Street Our Mpnday mornings post E30 10.50 26: to negotiate an agreement to brought which S30: Tionbridge Hackney collaborate with the Tory gov- ernment in continuing the attacks broucht the £51.184.01 6109 bury £10: Oxford {15; Merthyr 233: Rana on the working class with Phase DONE which leaves raise by berx 31. ЗАБЮ Swansea £3: Yorkshire Three of the pay laws. Paddingnon Harrow {15: CroyaRd £30: Squthwark The trade union leaders are Beadi ∞0. garden S30• Рові £5: Prictal {ł1! openly collaborating with a rulBrack ned 0: Barelater 210 OTE ral #:LoAdDA ing class which has launched the Wolver picaste A 6.201 inost unprecedented attack on. workers' living standards since ham-≤|6.50: :WE ord! 1 30y North •HT Party Buildingı the slump of the 1930s. West ≤59.50 Kingston 216. 186a Clapham High Street The working class is Lewinter 110. HESCEr 2310: London :Sw47 TURN TO BACK PAGE