PRESS GANG Keeping up-with the Jones

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It was a stirring way to preface the Labour Party conferenc 3. Jack • Jones sounding off, calling for a clean up in the labour movement.

No to corruption, no to fat salaries and a life style in the super tax bracket. No to the embarassing exposures that seem to crash around the Labour Party every other week.

The press caught the measured tone of Jones' heartfelt plea with grudging respect-flat cap Jack, unaffected by the spoils of power; the only man at the orgy with his shirt still on.

Of Mrs. Evelyn Jones' reaction we know less. Her speeches on corruption are not thought worthy of reporting, and as far the public is a gare sy in Dslichi he Jones south London home.

But Mrs. Jones is apparently an expert in her own right, on the future development of Redditch in Worcestershire and this special knowledge has earned her a place on the Redditch Development Corporation.

This job is not actually elected. In fact appointments to the board are at the whim of government ministers or civil servants in their department.

The post yields only £700 a year, tax free, with expenses thrown in.

Mrs Jones has in fact some catching up to do. Her husband Jack can show a clean pair of heeis when it comes to "Quango" jobs.

In addition to his £145 a week as general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, he receives £1.870 a year as deputy an ACAS council member.

Nice work if you can get it.. And at £10,300 a year you can live "modestly' and you need never get your hands dirty.

Property developer Ramon Greene has a few debts to pay£15 million pounds to be exact. He says he has assets of £30,473not quite enough to go round.

Mr Greene, who made and lost his fortune in property deals which are not thought to have involved much hard physical labour, is likely to be declared bankrupt at the end of the present hearings.

If this misfortune overcomes Mr Greene, he will not of course be able to keep piles of money stashed in the bank to comfort his sorrow.

How fortunate then that he had the forsight to give away about £800,000 to friends and relatives who will be unaffected by any ruling.

Could it be that the £114,998 worth of jewellry he gave his wife as a birthday present, could possibly pay the rent it things get really bad?

Sir George Baker has been married for 42 years but is an expert on divorce.

As president of the family division of the High Court he has just revealed that one in every two and i half marriages end in the divorce courts.

A sign of the recognition of past mistakes? A reflection of a major social change in attitudes to family life"

Well yes and no. Sir George belieyes, like us, that capitalism stil has need of the family ties.

He told the conference at which he released his figures that "society would be endangered" if it allowed