Incomes Act stays Mrs Castle tells

HAROLD WILSON and Barbara Castle made it clear in their beginning of term speeches to Labour MPs this week that they will press ahead with their pölicies of wage restraint. productivity and rising As Wilson put it:

'Political success for Labour depends on economic success by Labour.' over 1,800 take miserable £1 in return for productivity strings. Firemen now receive about £23 for a 56-hour week.

It is in these strings that the real dangers lie.

Understaffed

London's 122 stations are now understaffed by 600 men.

Webber's call, in section 101 of the Report, for more efficiency, an obvious Greater London Council chairman Mr Robert Mitchell declined to comment this week when asked if his 'twopart plan' to beat the strike included the use of troops.

attempt to 'solve' the undermanning by increased productivity.

As one South London fireman told our reporter:

"The Webber Report must be rejected outright!

•Firemen must guard against any attempt to include these strings in any settlement.' The union can also be expected to use the so-called national wage increases on cost of living.

In other words, we'll follow out the dictates of the international bankers whether or not it lets the Tories in.

The prime task is economic -i.e., 'saving' the British economy.

After this warning, Mrs Barbara Castle popped up to tell her audience that the government could not abandon 'the policy of relating incomes and prices to productivity and resources' TWISTED This phrase is, of course, a rather twisted formula for the prices and incomes policy.

If the Labour government were to abandon Part Two of the Prices and Incomes Act, Mrs Castle assured the meeting, they would have lost all possibility of influencing thinking and opinion on this 'vital aspect of economic and social policy'.

Vital or not, Wilson and Castle made it quite clear that Part Two, with its clause providing £500 fines for striking in breach of an order under the Act, will remain.

But the final cynical shot came from Mrs. Castle.

What would happen to food prices in the period before the election, she asked, if there them?

FOOD UP

Presumably, the same would happen as has happened alit Boulogne-Billancourt plant and interviewed some of its 37,000 workers about the low wages, long hours and speed-up imposed by the state management.

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ready-food prices would rise.

Coming on top of a Ministry of Agriculture statement that grocery bills rose by ls. 4d.

picture of the Prices and Incomes Board bravely battling against price rises 1s taintly absurd.

Like the Monopolies Commission, with which it is to be merged, the Prices and Incomes Board is an instrument for creating the very evil it is supposed to be fighting.

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Horse and Groom Mitcham Road parley YASSER ARAFAT, one of the main leaders of the Palestinian Liberation movement, stated on Tuesday in Damascus that he doubted the value cf peace talks b.tween / rab leaders and the Lebancse government.

Previous agreements had not been honoured and he saw no reason why any future ones should be.

Arafat's remarks were thought to be directed at recent attempts by Arab leaders, notably Nasser, to act as intermediaries between the anti-commando government of Lebanon and the Palestinian guerrillas based in the south of the country.