The great drive is on to destroy the trade unions - to turn them into tame integral parts of the machinery of government. It started, of course, with the Labour Government's "Prices and Incomes" policy which had nothing to do with prices and only affected the incomes of the wage-earning majority. The small coterie drawing dividends, rents and interest were hardly touched. Disillusioned with the Labour Government, the organised workers are turning more and more to militant trade union action in their determination to defend their rights and their conditions. This has called forth the full wrath of the establishment. Leading the assault is that doughty Papal Knight, Lord Carron. The wave of militancy was all part of an international Communist plot to undermine the British nation - if it was not the Kremlin or Peking directed Communists, then it was the sinister "University people" - you know, those who control papers like "Voice of the Unions" and "The Week". Or perhaps it was a combination of all these fearful forces, Always ready to take a stab at the workers, Ray Gunter - with the full backing of Harold Wilson, it is said - has now joined in the fray. He talks openly of an "unholy alliance" of Communists and Trotskyists, who “aim to destroy our hopes of economic recovery eseee and hope to bring to ruin the social democratic movement". Not for the first time, these so-called Labour leaders show their contempt for the workers - fools who can be manipulated by cunning left-wing plotters. This only shows how big the gap is between the leadership and the rank-andfile. When Trade Uninn leaders become Lord This or Baron That, can it be wondered at that Joe Bloggs at the bench thinks of them as creatures of a different world and prefers to follow leaders of their own choosing who share their way of life. This is the reality of the situation. The T.U. Lords and the Gunters of this world are openly identifying themselves with capitalism, Their aim is to preserve at all costs, to strengthen it and defend it. Their future is tied up with the existing social system. The future of the workers is tied to the cause of socialism which can only triumph if capitalism is destroyed. They elected a Labour Government to realise this aim, Betrayed by that Government they try other methods. It is the Carrons and the Gunters who are seeking to destroy the trade unions not the striking workers at Arundels, the Barbican or on the Railways. If this is a plot it is a capitalist plot and Carron and Gunter are part of it.
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