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Stalinists cover up for them MR. GEORGE BROWN and his Cabinet

By Cliff Slaughter

The Newsletter, vol. 9 no. 405, 24 July 1965 · scan page 1

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in recent weeks gone out of their way to make clear that if the unions cannot convince their members to put up with a wage freeze, then the force of the state will have to be used.

Both these gentlemen, who now threaten the organised workers on behalf of big business, owe their careers to the union movement, havit trade union movement, having worked their way into Parliatrade march worked their way into Parliament through the trade union machinery and drawing thousands of pounds in wages from the subscriptions of ordinary workers.

At the Durham miners' gala last Saturday, Harold Wilson, once the blue-eyed boy of the fake lefts, bitterly attacked the train drivers for their goslow on British Railways, Southern Region.

All these statements are in line with the complete right-wing policy of the Labour government, wholly subservient to U.S. capital at home and abroad.

New leadership At every turn the working class finds its aims obstructed by the Labour government. Above all, the working class needs a new leadership in its struggles, a leadership to oppose both the employers and their servants in the government. Anybody who imagined the British Communist Party might provide this alternative should now be learning very quickly, as many members of that Party are doing.

Last Thursday (July 15) the 'Daily Worker' carried a front-page article headed 'George Brown appeals to Daily Worker readers for aid'.

'Other way'

In the text, George Sinfield reports George Brown's statements about incomes and prices, in which he warned that methods of compulsion might be necessary. Among other remarks, he addressed Sinfield as follows:

If we don't make a go of this, if not helped by the TUC and by you and your readers, it will happen some other way. ... It can be done by voluntary cooperation between manage(Cont. back page, col. 1)

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