THE P. TICAL boot-boys of the TUC General Council succeeded in ramming another year of the social contract through the unions last week. Despite their blusterings about unemployment being 'unacceptable' and the need for an orderly return to free collective bargaining, their real anger was reserved for HOO TE Work marchers outside the Brighton Dome.
Murray called them boot-boys. Clive Jenkins called them the "fascists of the left. Ken Gill, Communist leader of the Technical and Supervisory section of the AUEW said he 'wouldn't give them the droppings from his nose.
A more exact analogy to describe these bureaucrats would be to say they each have their noses firmly embedded in the posterior of the bureaucrat in front of them. The Communist Party tail-ends the 'lefts", the "lefts' capitulate to the ex-lefts like Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, they follow Len Murray - and his nose is firmly implour in the broad backsides of lir and his right-wing or uang The same bully gang that now denounces those who protest at 1½ million unemployed was itself apopletic when unemployment reached half a million under the Tories in 1971. There's a difference now. We have a Labour Government.
According to Jack Jones, writing in the Morning Star the day the TUC opened: 'Never before has there been such a close working relationship between the trade unions and a government. This agreement has laid the foundations for real advances by the working class.' On Jack Jones's reckoning we should acnieve socialsm waen everybody is unemployed arter anl, nasn t ine ai socialists always been to eliminate the distinction between work and leisure?
But the anger of the bureaucrats at the Right to Work marchers betray their fears. They are scared. They are scared, despite the present passivity of the labour movement, of what will happen when the 4½ per cent ant enas. Photo: CHRIS DAVIES (Report) General Council's attempt to get a unanimous vote on just about every resolution put at Brighton last week. They know that the giant 18 to 1 majorities on incomes policy paper over the cracks.
Alan Sapper of the Cine Technicians might be persuaded to withdraw his union's motion opposing incomes policy, but Murrav and Jones know that as workers run up against the limits of the pay policy demand for import controls was regurgitated once again. And what do the racists say? If you can reduce unemployment by banning foreign goods, why not do it banning foreign workers — sme serena blacks home? And hasn't the TUC done this itself by calling for an end to work permit quotas?
Those delegates at the TUC Congress who are sincere in their desire to drive the fascists off the streets should ask themselves why it is Len Murray's so-called 'ranting Trotskyists' who have been to the forefront not only in fighting unemployment but in driving the fascists off the streets In one sense nothing happened inside the TUC at Brighton. Everybody knew the results before the game took place. victims of this particularly nasty little "game' were the working class. Strange to consider that it is the angry young men of the Fifties who now sit back in anger on the
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