TORIES MAY CALL SNAP ELECTION

managers are carefully manoeuvri ig public opinion to prepare for the possibility of a snap General Election.

Since the miners' strike Tories have been engaging in a number of deft public relations exercises to appease widespread hatred of their rule.

This can seen in least manoeuvres:

• The decision to invest £35m in bankrupt Upper Clyde Shipbuilders • The 'leaked' Ulster proposals which expected to phase out internment reduce troop activity.

Gardiner's report the ban on torture • The record £70m subsidy to farmers announced in the annual Farm Review. • Next Tuesday's early budget by the • Next Tuesday's early budget Chancellor of the Exchequer, Anthony Barber, which is designed to create a miniature spending "boom'.

Only yesterday Mr Edward du Cann, former Tory Party chairman, delighted a 'Yorkshire Post' businessmen's seminar at Leeds with the news that the budget would include tax cuts amounting to £600m. • Another more subtle part of the campaign can be detected in Heath's poststrike appearance on national television when he asked viewers to consider 'what sort of Britain you want' Playing into hands Britain over the remaining hurdles into To deal with the engineers and to over lato Europe, Heath needs another electoral victory. Playing into the hands of the Tories at all stages are the Labour and trade union leaders. They alone keep this government in and office by refusing to fight on unemployment, the Market, the Industrial Relations Actor any other major issue you care to mention that afiects the working class.

As we said in yesterday's Workers Press, the 'stench of coalition' pervades the Labour Party. Wilson and the Parliamentary Labour Party demonstrate day after day that SN The Labour '-and it can the expulsion Jenkins camp.

By coalescing allowing the righ pleases, the Labo door for Heath to aale THAMES / chill they will go to any lengths to perpetuate they will go to aný lengths to perpetuate Heath's rule.

It is the politics of coalition being pursued by Wilson that represents the most sinister and disarming force for the working class. If Heath does call a snap election, the Labour Party will be without policies—other than those taught to Wilson by Heath!

It would mean that Labour would enter the election fight disastrously handicapped and in conditions which would put the Tories at considerable advantage. Even as Wilson collaborates over Ulster and the Market, the Tory Party is managing the capitalist press to promote leadership splits in the Labour Party.

An innocuous and anaemic speech by Jenkins is blown up by every newspaper in Fleet St into sensational articles and solemn editorial comment about challenges to Wilson's leadership. This is good old ragtime Tory stuff. Whenever there is a whiff of an election, the Tories start promoting leadership squabbles and propaganda about the 'party of disarray'.

Party does have a split be swiftly remedied by of the splitters in the with the Tories and t-wing to operate as it. ur Party is opening the win any election clash.

IRANCRORY AND SENERAL WORKERS UNION OFFICIAL STRIP FOR UNIVE RECOCNITIC