Fares Up — Wages Down: Clear Out the Tories!
1962The Newsletter Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Title, extent and credit checked against the scan (17 October 2026, from the scan: page 1, headline 'FARES UP — WAGES DOWN / CLEAR OUT THE TORIES!' across columns 1-4, 'By the Editor' over column 2; the article is column 2, continued p. 2, col. 1). The text is machine-read and not corrected: for anything you quote, read the scan.
'go the fares. Down go the wages. This is Toryism in action. On the eve of the Budget, Mr. Marples, Minister of Transport, fully supports the increase of 10 per cent in fares. Freight charges are not affected, so big business remains happy.
Those in opposition consist entirely of the working and middle classes. Here once more is an indictment of those unions which have accepted the Tory hand-out of 3 per cent.
The attack continues. So far as the government is concerned, the purchasing power of wages must be reduced Workers must eat less and pay more.
There is only one immediate answer to this problem: a strike organized by all those workers who are in conflict with the government over wages.
The dockers are absolutely right in giving the Minister four weeks' notice to make up his mind. They are right when they refuse to be diverted into discussions with arbitration boards and the Ministry. So far as the conditions of the working class are concerned, this government has had its say.
There was nothing in the Tory election platform in 1959 which said that by 1962 the cost of living would have risen by leaps and bounds.
There was nothing in that election manifesto which said that wages must be frozen. On the contrary, the Tory go vernment took power by bein 3 all things to all men - at least while the election was on.
If somebody obtains money or property by false pretences, the capitalist courts are quick to apprehend him. If the Tories come to power by false pretences, the only solution is to bring their government down.
A co-ordinated strike of the dockers and engineers can do this.
Pay no heed to right-wing Labour leaders such as Gaitskell and Brown. The only people who can stop the present government are the electorateand a substantial body of them (Cont. 2, col. 1)