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Suddenly the chances of Labour being massacred at the next election look less clear cut.
With the critical struggle against the 10% limit already launched, the working class has shown its determination to resist the wage cutting policies of the coalition, and provide an immediate threat to the Coalition itself.
But middle class elements who oscillate between Tories and Labour are showing doubts that the Tories will offer anything except an intensification of the class war.
Every poll now published shows the Tory lead cut.
The reaction of Tories is shown in an 'open letter' Reginald Maudling has written to his constituents-or at least those of them who read the Times.
The Tories want power.
Maudling They fear that the Labour Party will be forced into concessions unfavourable to capitalism. At the same time they recognise that the LabourLiberal coalition is managing capitalism more effectively than they could-by assuring the complete acquiescience of PHOTO: John Sturrock, Report more proposals Maudling goes on.
'As for the powers of trade unions, the Governm are no longer trying to extr them.
'Indeed, to the contra they are fighting the ba of Parliament and the popi will against the organised ; unscrupulous indust muscle of some trade unio Optimistically, Maus reckons that the Goverro will hold its pay policy. "T presents the Conservat Party with a dilemma. If t support him (Callaghaz! a he succeeds, he will be in ! position to call an electi and in a very strong positi indeed to win it. Yet *i] alternative do the Conser tives have? ...
'We shall not get me benefit from pointing ‹ that the leopards hu changed their spots, that th are doing now what we ha advocated for some years".
Despite his warning ti an economic recovery wo: lead to an outbreak of "Be: ery, Footery and Scargilldo the main line of Maudlin plaintive letter is that sir the Labour Party is Di putting its name to eva wage and job cutting poli that the Tories advocate a that there is therefore lit effective opposition that th can make.