Powell calls the Tory tune

IT WAS ALWAYS inevitable that industrial relations - or, to drop the jargon, how to deal with the working class - should move slap-bang into the middle of the election arena.

Verbal battle raged from Cardifi to London and back yesterday as James Callaghan, Edward Heath and Harold Wilson vied for honours in the union-bashing stakes. But Enoch Powell, as reported this page, continues to call the real Tory tune.

"The law has very little part to play in the workshop and on the factory floor,' said ex-police negotiator Callaghan in a Cardiff hotel.

"The idea that the magistrate can sit in at a bench or on the factory floor is so absurd to anybody who really thinks about industrial relato carry out?

The Tory idea of a coolingoff period before a strike was 'very desirable, but we are entitled to ask what happens if the cooling-off period is not observed by the strikers'.

Would work this country, retorted leader Heath from another hotel nearby. 'What we are proposing is that the oooling-off should be made by the High Court, by a judge or an industrial court when they are established.' He was "appalled' by 'smug complacency about industrial relations.

gim i rom to by tong is a phoney in that it requires the agreement of both sides to enforceability, which, in any case, we are providing in our legislation.' olling dav — Tune 18 — is f course, the anniversary o the Trades Union Congress's 'solemn and binding undertaking' to do the Labour government's dirty work in the unions.

'Guarantee

If there is any smugness in the Labour leadership it is because they believe that this wish special, relationship the union chiefs guarantees their allure for the employers.

But, Workers Press has already warned more than once this week, powerful sec. tions of the employing classensing from Pilkington's an sewhere that this relatior TWO PUBLI LONDON Sunday, June 14, 7.30 p.m.

St Pancras Town Hall Speakers:

A Thornett (ATUA)

J. Simmance (YS natic G. Healy (SLL nationa ship is rapidly breaking upare demanding a settling of accounts with the unions.

It is for these people that Powell — with his plans for swingeing legal sanctions against all forms of strike action-speaks.

And this constitutes the most cogent argument for keeping the Tories out of Westminster.

"Tribune'-ite candidate keeps his head down BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER 'ONE MAN'S wage rise is another man's price increase'. Labour's technology whizzkid Anthony Wedgwood Benn told a campaign meeting in London's Forest Hill on Monday night.

The campaign was Lewisham West "Tribune'-ite James Dickens', and almost the only point of interest in the meeting was the sidelight it cast on the way Labour's so-called 'left' is keeping its collective head well down in this election. Neither Benn's explicit support for both the incomes policy and the : European Economic Community, nor his references to Dickens' opposition to official government policy on these issues drew a single squeak.

On wages, Dickens merely warned workers in the public sector to 'watch out for the Tory prices and incomes policy.

MEETINGS

SWINDON Friday, June 12, 7.30 p.m.

Co-op Hall

East St Speakers:

Frank Willis (ATUA)

G. Healy (SLL national Casual stance by Min-Tech whizz-kid Wedgwood Benn at Forest Hill, London on Tory 'Shadow' wows 'em BARBARA CASTLE'S Tory Shadow, Robert Carr, drew an audience of precisely 21 people when he opened his election campaign in the Outer London parish of Beddington, in the constituency of Mitcham, on Tuesday night.

Well, there were 23 to start with-but two of them left. They had wanted the marriage guidance next door, you see.

Those who stayed weren't exactly thrilled to death with Carr's dessicated rendering of the Conservative manifesto.

He wasn't exactly bubbling over himself. Understandable for a man who could well lose the slender 1 per cent majority he pulled in 1966!

In the first four months of this year,' he said, 'there were 1,578 strikes—almost 400 a month—with a direct loss of over three million working days.

'If this continues,' Carr intoned gloomily, '1970 will Tuesday night.

in Mitcham Mrs Castle's 'Shadow' Robert Carr. see almost 5,000 strikes with the largest loss of working days since the General Strike of 1926?

And the Labour leaders are just sitting back and letting it happen.

Not so Trades Union Congress general secretary Victor Feather. Now there was a man for you !

Carr painted a heartwarming picture for his audience of Feather struggling away 'heroically' down in Congress House to clear up the Augean mess created by his political 'But on his own he can never do the job' What Feather really needed, of course, was a Tory governCarr didn't sound too sure the trick would work.

'We have never said that there is a simple, let alone legalistic, solution to the problem, or that the answer s to be tound in applying penal sanctions to strikers.

'What we do say is that we will never restore stability and confidence to collective bargaining until the government lays down a proper set of up-to-date rules 'Our rules will provide a new stimulus to what I can only loosely describe as "industrial democracy"?

Loosely is the word. Dont of th stage props collapse on Quintin Hogg 'during

On the Common Market, he apologised for his opposition by pointing out that many Tory and Liberal MPs were warried about it as well!

The last thing the 'lefts' intend to do, in fact, is fight the election on a basis of principled opposition to the governmental betrayals.

unity' theme in Gromyko's Paris talks SOVIET FOREIGN Minister Andrei Gromyko's five-day visit to France has seen the Pompidou government reverting to the style and phrases of the Gaullist decade.

Greeted on Monday as 'an old friend' of the French government, Gromyko emerged on Wednesday from a series of secret talks with Pompidou to attend a state banquet held in his honour.

Taking as his theme the Octaber, visit would cemen elations still firmer 'BONDS' 'There exists between our two peoples traditional bonds