LABOUR COLLABORATION WITH TORY PLANS COALITION IN ALL BUT NAME

NO WORKER should be in any doubt about the real meaning behind all the double-talk at this week's Labour Party conference. The Labour leaders have cynically set out to betray the working class in its hour of greatest need.

Common Market entry, to be completed in three months, will take unemployment up way over the million mark and speed up even more the galloping rise in the cost of living. But the Labour and trade union leaders deliberately agreed on Wilson's resolution, which actually commits the Party to support entry and leave the Tories a free hand:

The conference also gave its blessing to the treacherous collaboration between the JC and the Tory governmen signed to freeze wages an shackle trade unionists.

government, vernmean fatais that the Tory faced with normous international crisis o anitalism. has to all intents an urposes got the Labour leader in coalition. The wretche Labourite leaders give this serce without even being give binet seats. They hobe th will come.

All the occasional shouting about a General Election (see Wedgwood Bean's final speech, . 1l), is a deliberate sham. li lesperate fear of the strength ol the working class, and of the collapse of the capitalist economy, the Labour leaders are 100 per cent in favour of collaborating with the Tories in defence of the capitalist system.

Harold Wilson, having secured double-talk on the Common Market, said in a television interview that he would welcome Marketeer Roy Jenkins back into the Shadow Cabinet. NUPE Ted. sing was carried. But so was one from one from NUPE opposing any incomes After Jenkins' sell-out to the policy!

Tories and his promotional camis an clear answer to thee com. Behind this flimsy veil, the reality is Labour backing for the munist Party's 'Morning Star's' TUC's decision to agree an talk about the 'militant mood' of incomes policy with the Tory government. the conference.

According to the Stalinists: Yesterday's 'Times' editorial 'Even Shadow Chancellor Denis concluded: "There obviously is a desire among Labour leaders, inHealey in his reply appeared to be affected by the mood and cluding Mr Wilson and Mr gave the impression of gingerly Healey, to develop a rational and hinting to the TUC to drop agreed incomes policy ..: The talks with Heath.' TUC's Economic Committee has These Stalinists have always put forward reasonable negotiatopposed mobilizing the working ing proposals.' class to force the Tories to re- These capitalist spokesmen sign and they here deliberately know the game. They know that mislead their readers. Healey the whole purpose of the leaderactually said: ship at Blackpool was to smooth 'We have got Heath on the the path for Heath. They even run—now let us keep him on comment that of course it is the run. He has reversed most reasonable to ask for dividend of the policies on which he restraint: 'One could even suspect fought the election, and he may that they were only left out in be prepared to reverse a few order to have something to conmore before the next election cede.' omes. At any rate there is no Both TUC and Tory governharm in trying.' ment, according to "The Times' This means-keep on talking 'are working very hard to make to the Tory government. Every their talks succeed.' canitalist paper knows that is In this parade of deception and what it means. The Stalinists betrayal 'left' union chief Jack and the 'left' are helping Healey Jones abstained to save Wilson and Wilson to play their con- on the crucial Common Market fidence trick.

In fact the NEC-backed motion Benn did similar work calling for Labour Party-TUC the chair for the whole talks to devise an incomes policy then gave a demagogic "left' for the next Labour government speech at the close.

into the doubl Iful Michael Foot announced that he was prepared to be of service to the ruling class whenever required:

"The democratic institutions could be blown to smithereens and we are the only people who can stop it' He was answering the call of 'The Times':

'If voluntary incomes policy railed, the result will be rapid orice inflation, rising unemployment and perhaps serious social disorders.' Now is the time for the whole labour movement to take a stand against the politics of coalition and throw out the treacherous reformist leaders. These leaders have every intention of condeming the working class to the consequences of trade war, depression and slump.

Alternative revolutionary leadership, built in the fight to make the Tory government resign, is the first need of the working class.

Councils of Action, formed in all areas to to unite the struggles of trade unionists tenants, unemployed, and all working-class political organizations.

First on the agenda is to win the maximum trade union and factory representation to the All Trades Unions Alliance Conference on October 22 Bir- in mingham. There must the be BRIEFLY TORY MINISTERS meeting at 10 Downing Street yesterday welcomed the Labour and trade union leaders' decision to keep talking about the proposal for a £2 limit on wage increases. The meeting, called by premier Edward Heath following his return from Italy, was attended by Attorney-General Sir Peter Rawlinson. (See Labour and incomes policy, p. 3.)

PICKETS who tried to stop people going to work or delivering goods "by simple force of numbers' were not protected by 1 a W, Solicitor-General Sir Geoffrey Howe told a Tory ladies' luncheon club yesterday. Howe, who largely drafted the Industrial Relations Act, warned that those responsible for obstruction in this way were "breaking the law and may be punished'. (What We Think on picketing, p. 2.)