IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

LABOUR RATTLES ITS BIG STICK

Red Weekly No. 77, 21 November 1974 · p. 9 of the scan · 304 words

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had pleaty of stick. What is more of the working class.

of cracking down on workers who through the prices code if they pay Williams is advocating is using the employers to crack down on the wotkers so that the Government does not have lo soil its hands.

attempt to give the social compact that 'the Government is clearly wages policy some time persons are pleased about Williams ward compulsory pay laws, he tract guidelines set by the TUC the + Government will be compelled to rake offsetting steps to curtail dedollops of cash to save them fom allow them to put up their prices even more, For the woricing class. Labour offers to birch them with Although the Labour leaders had no carrots to offer in the Budget they that stick is intended for the backs Prices Secretary, Shirley Williams, makes no bones about her intestion have the impudence to try and defend their living standards, She has sugnested that employers could be penalised workers vay high wage rises. What No wonder that the top capitalist magazice the Economist waxed enthusiastic about what it described as Williams" 'buch in the cupboard. It described her proposals as the first ingham, some teethi and delighted in the fact going to have lo move to a statttory If the ruling class and its spokes'birch' they are even more enthralled with Mr. Healey's big club, Orchestrating the moves by Labour's right tothreatened in his budget speech that sery Street!. the unions would face unemployment if they did not stick to the social conHe said, 'If wages rise beyond the mand. And the effects on the financial position of the company sector are bound to lead to unemployment.' 23-24 November.

For the capitalist companies it is bunkruptey and concessions which Williams' wage restraint or club them

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