Callaghan's unheard plea

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in ohn The decomposing corpse of last winters' ill-fated TUC-Labour Concordat was wheeled out of its crypt last week by Labour leader James Callaghan.

In a speech that was apparently immediately consigned to the dustbin of history by its intended audience he urged steel pickets to follow the written guidance given by the TUC last winter in agreement with his There was no sign that workers were responding in their thousands to this callany more than lorry drivers and public sector workers did last year.

But will Labour's 'left' ever PHOTO: John Sturrock, Report Callaghan respond with the much needed campaign to oust the Callaghan-Healey leadership?

After several days of mountng pickets-which were taunted byrthe press because they tades -Hadfields was eventually shut by two thousand pickets who defeated the strike breaking efforts of 700 police.

The Daily Mail in its southern editions was happily silenced -not by the pickets but by a pay strike of EETPU members.

The Daily. Express stepped into the breach. "Anarchy has won? was the label on its front page pictures of the picket.

But the events turned the press, not so much on the steel workers as on Prior. The Tory press is uniformly in support of the Cabinet 'hawks' Indeed it is doubtful whether their most extreme proposals go far enough for the gutter press.

Across the top of the Express front page was a message: "This is why you need to act, Pussyfoot Prior"

Next time someone is sent to face the steelworkers in Wales or Yorkshire, Prior not Joseph will get the popular vote of the Tory press.