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Red Weekly No. 181, 6 January 1977 · p. 1 of the scan · 255 words

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for 20, 31p a bottle.

cent for local journies elsewhere This comes on top which even by policy continues.

months. Labour policy anymore; food subsidies go incomes policy remains.

Callaghan, recent been Chiang wage April, thanks to Healey's Budget. Other Budget increases mean that cigarettes go up by 4p beer by about 1p a pint, and whisky by Rail fares have gone up in London and the South East by 16½ per cent, and by 12½ per of last year's inflation, official figures was running at 15 per cent. But the rise in basic wage rates was only 12.8 per cent, before tax. According to the Economist, workers' standard of living may drop by 10 percent this year if incomes It is this issue of incomes policy which will be a crucial issue for militants in the next few does even pretend there is a 'prices and incomes' Chancellor Healey himself raises prices at will - only an Working people can answer the attacks of Healey and Co. with an incomes 140120 -1976 Feb Oct increases in wages as prices rise.

Heath era protected workers' A real sliding scale of wages, rises in rents, food prices.

more.

LARGE LOAF 1977 policy of their own: one that gives automatic Even the extremely restricted threshold payments of the living standards more than this Labour Government has done.

strictly tied to and clothing and monitored by trade unionists, would do much Fought for nationally, it would protect the working class as a whole; and control by

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