When 'Sunny Jim' Callaghan arrived at the eve-of-Conference reception at Tiffany's on Sunday, the band stopped playing. Callaghan took over. After telling delegates who had never previously attended a Party Conference that it would be an experience never to be forgotten, he proceeded to fulfill his prophecy by explaining that the theme of this year's Conference (he had decided, no doubt) was to be 'loyalty to the Government'.
Callaghan's hour-long report Conference on behalf of the PLP was undouolcaly crude in stressed the indivisibility of Labour's industrial strategy as he put it, and the defence of the social contract. though crude it was effective, as were the tactics of the right-wing leadership in general. For whilst a number of resolutions of which they would disapprove were passed, sometimes against the recommendation of the leftwing NEC, they remain only pieces of paper as long as they are located in the workers fighting closure. LASS WONT framework of loyalty to the Callaghan-Healey Government.
A delegate at the Questions' meeting on Sunday summed it up. Interrupting Stan Orme, who was engaged in a pathetic self-justification of his role as a member of the Government, the delegate said that whilst he was loyal to the Labour Government, he was first of all loyal to the working class, and that meant a fight against the policies of the Labour to Plan way it The right were able to win the Conference precisely because the left But leaders had a plan for everything at Blackpool -Government's anti-working class polBenn, speaking at an Institute of Workers Control meeting, obligatory paeans of praise for alternative socialist policies. He then eulogised over the concord between the 7OUU NCe and wure ooovers acainst me curs ink neur protest to mar or nous noyce WE VIIE IN RELAINTribune Any But it is this concord right-wing policies social contract, Jack Jones! except how to fight the sang the out', they through the ways. of the Tribunites, etc.
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which cements the foundations of the Government's At last year's Tribune meeting, the sparks flew between Mikardo and Jones. This year the Tribune platform was decorated with the presence of former Minister for Unemployment, TONY BENN speaks at the Tribune Rally accompanied by the architects of the Social Contract - Jack Jones and Michael Foot for more nationalisation, less compensation, more radical policies praiseworthy objectives - were lengthier than those of the traditional left leaders, their proposals on how to achieve them were, however, just as short on suggested action.
Nevertheless, the first tentative of an organised opposition are inning to appear. The lobby calle the National Coordinating Comn Against Cuts in the NHS and I attracted 1,000 people. The nex the NCC along with Labour Ag Cuts (LAC) and the Socialist M Association (SMA) held a joint
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