Phase Three talks today PRICES EXPLOSION AS TUC SEES HEATH

THE EI ECTION of delegates and the campa the All Prades Unions Alliance conference an Vue, Manchester, on July 1 is now at Belle And it is not a moment too soon.

Today the TUC leaders into Downing Street, while Two 'price control' policy £100,000 their feet.

BUILDING has begun.

FUND YESTERDAY'S post brought in £37.50-an inspiring effort when one considers the tremendous fight which was waged over the weekend. food material costs rose 3 per Lewisham £20; Totten- cent in May. ham £11.50; Swindon £1; Significantly, the first month Anonymous : £5. of Phase Iwo of the so-called 'counter-inflation' policy proThe fund total is now duced an overall 1-per-cent rise £51,211.51—well into in the output price for all manulast £50,000, due by factured products. October 31. This compares with a rise of only 1.8 per cent over the entire Post all donations to: five months from November to Party Building Fund March.

86a Clapham High Street The fruits of months of TUC London SW4 7UG. collaboration with the Tories are now going to be reaped in the form of a drastic lowering of living standards for all sections of the working class and lower Cash questions middle class.

This must be answered by the on Watergate demand that all talks with the Tories be called off immediately. (See page Il).

FORMER Secretary of ComTrade union leaders are paid merce Maurice Stans was being questioned at the Senate's in- to protect their members' workvestigation of the Watergate creep smirkin standar, Heaths ing and living standards. not scandal yesterday about a secret parlour. $89,000 contribution from Texas that was 'laundered' through a The Stalinists who provided a Mexican account. Some of this left cover for this class collamoney was found on the Water- boration, and the revisionist gate burglars when they were groups who sought to head off caught red-handed on June 17 political opposition to Feather last year. and company by calling only for 'more militancy', would leave the SIX liberal Congressmen, led working class leaderless and exby New York's Bella Abzug, a posed to these latest Tory Democrat, reserved three hours attacks. of House of Representative's deOnly the ceaseless struggle for bate time to discuss impeachrevolutionary leadership in the ment of the President.

unions can meet the requirements GOVERNMENT requests for of the working class today. radio and TV to be banned dur- Everywhere, the employers are ing the appearances of John intensifying the drive for speedDean III and Jeb Magruder be- up and more discipline on the fore the Senate Committee have job, while their Tory governbeen denied by judge John Sirica. TURN BACK That ever-growing list.

While workers wages have everywhere been held down to the Tory state pay limit of £l plus 4 per cent and Feather, Scanion, Jones and company advance further along the road of Phase Three collaboration, a prices explosion This week the Price Commission granted the biggest round of price increases SO far on food and household products. See our list on right.

But all this is only a hint of what is to come.

For the most serious increases of all have been in raw materials — now 23 per cent above the level of June last year. And the Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin yesterday warned that this has not yet worked its way through to retail prices.

The bulk of this increased cost must be passed on in the form of a higher cost of living. Already ign Increases agreed this di week include:

CANNED and bottled foods, soups, puddings and spreads: H. J. Heinz granted increases of 2.88 per cent. This will mean troop obediently shopkeepers will pay 1p the Tories' Phase extra per can or pack from Monday. lies in ruins at Tesco Supermarkets immediately announced that all such increases would have to be passed on to the housewife at once.

BISCUITS: United Biscuits granted a 4.5 per cent increase over the whole range of biscuits, potato crisps and nuts, with effect from June 25.

CAKES and pastry: Spillers French Baking granted average increases of 13 per cent over its range of packaged cakes, and over 6 per cent on its puff pastry. These come into effect immediately. Ford pickets oppose closure plan Pickets were out again at Ford's Dagenham, Essex, plant yesterday seeking support fol their fight against the closure of the blastfurnace. • See story page 12. QUAKER OATS: Increases averaging over 8 per cent over the whole range of breakfast cereals with effect from July 2.

IN ADDITION to these food price rises are:

Ever Ready batteries (70 per cent of the radio and torch market) up to 2p dearer.

IC! petrol will go up 0.8p piar gailon.

British Road Haulage charges will be 5 per cent higher.

Car and aircraft components made by Hepworth and Grandage will cost over 3 per cent more.

Slumberland has been granted permission to charge 5.3 per cent more for its bedding products.

The Duport group will be able to raise the price of steel bars by more than 7 per cent.

Vandervell (a member of the GKN group) will be able to charge over 9 per cent more for automative bearings sold as replacement parts and there will be a rise of 5 per cent on GKN Bolts and Nuts products.

The • National Coal Board is raising the price of its industrial and carbonization coal by 7.5 per cent from July 1.

This will hit the sitel and electrical goods industries.

British steel is already under severe pressure to fall into line with the much higher prices charged by European steel producers.

And the Central Electricity Board has announced already that higher coal costs must mean an application for higher electricity charges - in addition to the request for a 5-per-cent rise already lodged with the Prices Commission.