THE 'MORNING STAR' AND JACK JONES

LT-COL AMAKRANE and Lt Midaoui, two The Communist Party's strategy of promoting the 'left' trade union leaders is now exposed for all to see. This strategy has been a cover for avoiding a fight to bring down the Tory government. › trade union leader has been more consistently presented by the 'Morning Star' as a good workers' leader than Jack Jones of the Transport and General Workers' Union. 'en when Jones sold out the 1970 dock strike-the first clash between the working class and the Tory government -hel was protected by the 'Morning Star'. ›day Jones not only seeks to sell out the dockers' strike for a few worthless promises—he hides behind the capitalist police and is enthusiastically supported by all the millionaire press. : is praised to the skies while hic members are reviled as 'vicious animals', the police and fined hundreds nuneeds of pounds in the bourgeois courts. is 'left' lines up openly with the bourgeois state against the working class. Yet not a single word of condemnation of Jones has appeared in the 'Morning Star'. 1 the contrary, Jones' claim that work and housing was being prepared on 'hundreds of acres of London's dockland' Star without comment.

id Friday's 'Star' went even further. It listed the small ports which had decided to return to work. It quoted Jones's appeal for an end to the strike. It reported the scandalous condemnation of the dockers by the leaders of the National Union of Journalists. All without comment. And it even joined the chorus about 'dockers' violence'. Dockers, it declared, 'may not use the best methods to express grievances'. it, above all, though it is compelled to declare support for the strike and to urge solidarity 'blacking', the 'Star' nowhere calls for united action by the working class to bring down the Tory government.

It twists and turns in all directions to avoid having to call for a fight to construct a new leadership to replace Jack jones, now totally discredited in the eyes of thousands of dockers. le 'Star' also attempted yesterday to cover up for builders' union general secretary George Smith. He was given a fullbuilding unions were not on interview to claim the he point deal with covering 'Morning assists in the docke of signing a sell-out the employers last In fact on August 2 the trade union side of the industry's negotiating body agreed unanimously to recommend acceptance of a deal which only gave a basic of £23 and which contained a no-strike clause.

le Communist Party is building up TUC General Council chairman Smith as a preparation for the retreat from the claim through company agreements.

Building workers, like dockers, must fight the Stalinists' protection of the union leaders. The Socialist Labour League, in contrast to the CP, demands the reconvening of the T&GWU conference where Jones must be made accountable.

We call on all unions to organize immediate solidarity action with the dockers. We campaign for the immediate recall of the TUC to plan united action of the whole working class to bring down the Tory governWe fight to construct Councils of Action to build this unity in struggle against the Tories and their agents in the labour movement.

Unless this is done, the trade union leaders will continue to betray their members and use the force of the state against them. Trotsky warned that in the epoch of imperialist decay the trade unions would either be transformed by Marxists into instruments of revolutionary struggle, or be transformed by reformists into instruments to control the working class on behalf of capitalism.

This is the issue facing trade unionists today.

The Communist Party, based on its reformist 'British Road to Socialism', argues that capitalism will peacefully hand over its wealth and power to the working class. It opposes revolutionary struggle against capitalism.

That is why it consistently presents men like Jack Jones as leaders who can be trusted. As a result of this miseducation, CP militants are left unprepared for the betrayals of these leaders, who are now cooperating with the ruling class in seeking to isolate and divide the dockers.

ily in struggle against Jones and the class-collaborators at the head of the trade unions can the working class deal with their main enemy. In up for Jones, the Star' consciously the to defeat plot