Tribune Magazine Archive » 22nd January 1988 » DANGER—MR CUBE AND HIS FRIENDS ARE STARTING AGAIN BY Llew Gardner You may have met Socialist Sam. Soon you can expect to meet a friend of his, Mr Tube. And you can also look forward to renewing an old acquaintanceship with Mr Cube. For these three

DANGER—MR CUBE AND HIS FRIENDS ARE STARTING AGAIN BY Llew Gardner You may have met Socialist Sam. Soon you can expect to meet a friend of his, Mr Tube. And you can also look forward to renewing an old acquaintanceship with Mr Cube. For these three

22nd January 1988 from the Tribune Magazine Archive
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will be the symbols of a nationwide anti= nationalisation campaign to be waged simultaneously by the Tory Party and big business.

Socialist Sam is the invention of the Tory Central Office. He has already made his bow in costly advertisements in the national press. Mr Tube — so the steel bosses hope — will do for their industry what Mr Cube did some years ago for the sugar industry.

If Mr Tube fails it will not be for want of ready cash. This week the shareholders of the giant Stewarts and Lloyds Company gave their directors the go-ahead to campaign against nationalisation. And Mr Ian Lyle, the chairman of Tate and Lyle , has announced that intensive efforts are to be made to combat any threat of nationalisation. So we are likely to see more of Mr Cube— the one-time hero of private enterprise.

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Mr Lyle is also chairman of Aims of Industry, the organisation founded by the late Lord Perr, the Ford's boss, to popularise capitalism. Aims of Industry hopes to play a major part in the anti-nationalisation crusade now getting underway. It handled the previous Mr Cube campaign.

Now it is ready and raring to have another go.

Some nasty-minded people have suggested there is not much to choose between Aims of Industry and the Tory Central Office. Roger Dunstan, the deputy editor of the former, thinks this unjust. He puts it this war If Aims of Industry opposes nationalisation then it is coincidentally against part of Labour Party policy. If Aims of Industry advocates the continuance of capitalism then it is coincidentally in agreement with part of Conservative Party policy.

But we need not split hairs. Aims of Industry seeks the same as the Tory Party: the defeat of the Labour Party at the general election. Mr Lyle, Lords Rank and Ashcombe, Mr Leonard Lord and all the other wealthy backers of Aims of Industry will not be unduly embarrassed at having the Tory Central Office a s an ally. For them the fight has started. The bell has gone for the start of round one. I hope Transport House knows.

❑ From Tribune, January 31, 1958