The Newsletter concerns Callaghan

The Newsletter, vol. 9 no. 470, 26 November 1966 · scan page 1

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'WE CAN'I say to those who sell food . .. "You must not put up your prices because wages have not gone up". That is a fact of the economy you live in', said Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan talking to Cardiff University Socialist Society last Friday (November 18).

In these words, he admitted his slavish obedience to the capitalists who control 'the economy we live in'.

On entering the meeting Callaghan found a copy of The Newsletter and devoted the first part of his speech entirely to a violent attack on the Socialist Labour League.

He said that he wanted to warn students against this organisation; though they might think it was trying to strengthen the labour movement, its sole aim was to smash the Labour Party, social democracy and the Communist Party.

"There has some very research organisation, be warnedhad not just in been a strong enough warning He objected particularly to the statement in last week's Newsletter that "Wilson, Brown and Callaghan are at war against the wages and conditions working class.' His whole speech was made as a reply to this statement, but it only served to show more clearly the anti-working class nature of government policies.

In particular, he attacked the car workers for 'bidding the price of labour in the Midlands'.

said that union officials had told him that 'Midland carworkers will not take other jobs being offered te ali • when there are did not explain where these other jobs are, or at what wages.

It was Callaghan's proud boas hat he was doing all he coul to encourage 'private enterprise' and that 'the government has deliberately made it more difficult to sell at home'.

In other words the government is trying to solve the crisis of capitalism at the expense of the working class, as the Socialist Labour League and The Newsletter have always maintained.

Yes, Mr. Callaghan, you were quite right to concentrate on attacking the SLL. The government's Tory policies are forcing more workers to recognise it as an agent of big business, and that they must build a new leadership to destroy that government.

Only the SLL has the policies for such an alternative.