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is a necessary-and obviouscomponent of economic management and social planning"

Wilfully ignoring the bitter resentment that is rife throughout the ranks of the trade union movement, Rodgers claimed that the "mood of the country" was "ripe for: 66 ... a constructive discussion of how a settled incomes policy can evolve alongside, and in conjunction with a substantial measure of collective bargaining"

TUC backing "would be Socialist Press Monthly Fund 31. Dartmouth Park Hill London IS IHR essential", he added-clearly confident that it could be engineered.

Rodgers' speech came hard on the heels of similar statements by Treasury minister Joel Barnett, and both those hirelings of the capitalist class were echoing the words of Healey and Callaghan over the holiday period.

Repetition

The figure widely predicted for this new straight jacket on pay is 5%-a repetition of the Phase 2 limits which cut living standards by an unprecedented amount during 1976-7.

Meanwhile the TUC has turned all its energies to upholding the current 10% pay limit-thus easing the way for Phase 4.

Take action

Len Murray's appeal to the firemen to accept the cifer must be seen in this light.

Only if wage control can be kept intact this year can PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report Healey the Lib-Lab coalition hope to impose it next year.

Workers must take action to ensure that these plans are defeated, and that the coalitionists that support them are driven from the Labour and trade union movement.