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what he said or did he not? Would he not have done better, and sounded more credible, if he had simply talked of pay restraint in


So was it all a try-on? Did Mr Callaghan, mean


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hardly a mention of wage: limits-and none at all of Government sanctions or of standing firm ■ against strike action.


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whelming vote ■. at the Labour Party conference ’ roundly condemning not only 5 per cent but any form of pay re s tra in t whatsoever. The next day up bobs Sunny Jim at Blackpool and away had t disappeared all the resolu


has-been provided in the' last few-weeks by Mr Cal- * iaghan/At- first it seemed as if he and his; govern^ ment had. nailed their col- - ours-firmly to/the mast in - favour of a precise 5 per cent norm, fo r wage increases. To suggest any ; higher figure, as - did - the ’ Ford • workers, by walking 1 - out, was apparently to propose wrecking the : economy. Then came the over­


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hardly be surprised that a large part of his former supporters do not now believe him. . Simply put, if his economic policies were proving as successful as he alleged, why the necessity for even more stringent measures? ■'


are so clever, Mr Cal­ laghan, why are we not rich?


To adapt a cliche; if you '


-regard to the actual figure of 5 per cent itself. Last year,-10- per-cent became stretched as far as 16 per cent. This year the/Prime Minister has already indi­ cated that 5 per cent is not, perhaps, the figure he really expects, but is only a sort of ‘horse-trading


The disbelief arises with


obvious. Few economic groups were content with last year’s 10 per cent increase. Most therefore expected, if the Govern­ ment’s boast that inflation was being brought down to single figures was to be believed, that this coming year’s norm would be higher. Certainly not lower, and certainly not halved,-, as it has been. So- Mr Callaghan -can


militating against the pre­ sent type of incomes policy are disappointment and disbelief and perhaps even a third “D” — the vexed question (of differentials. The disappointment is


, mass of the people.accept, each year, whatever the Government decides is the appropriate figure for wage increases,, commen­ surate with keeping infla­ tion at bay not only for those oil .5 per cent, but also for the rest who may be able, by all sorts of means, to obtain more. The other two factors


smaller firm round the corner? Or' decided to do some other job entirely, nothing to do with the motor trade, or chose to make a living selling fruit from a barrow or being a pop star or writing books for a living? The latter three employments not being subject to 5 per cent or even 50 per cent norms so far as increased earn­ ings are concerned. This is one of the injustices of an incomes policy — the assumption that a large


these co ns id e ra tio n s before they went to work for Ford rather than say, a


employees thought about


right from the start, as a special case.. Now how many Ford


is big; if a small firm'had said it would get round the guide lines presumably^ wouldn’t have mattered too much as the total wage settlement would have been peanuts, and, almost as important, with luck no' one would have noticed. Thirdly,, of course, because they are not Brit­ ish Leyland which has already been supported by the taxpayers’ money and . which the Government therefore specially favours and is prepared to treat,


Ford provides a large number of cars and vehi­ cles under Government contracts. Therefore it was . thought pressure could be brought to bear on that firm which would have lit-; tie or no effect ori others. „ Secondly, because Ford


/ ernment-backed offer of 5 per cent. : Granted that they are not exactly under­ paid, and that their no­ strike agreement with management had still some weeks to run.'. Neverthe­ less, I can see why they say to themselves, “why have we been singled out?” And I can-provide some of the answers. , . '. First of all, because


future General Election — bargaining power for all it the assertion of the special trouble-free


uio uuiiiii u a m the a fearful wages


bring in its train another the


>i Presumably the Labour Government, if it is to hold down inflation, will have to rely more on monetary and fiscal measures that upon the goodwill and self- denial of the trades unions.; Yet,,I suppose.that/to say that in public would do too v much to destroy, what’ every _ Labour politician


- addicted to categoric/' statements' about the'1 .economy, .aided and abetted, of course, by % economists who will'; persist- in regarding i


POLITICIANS, I am,; afraid, are mucht


FIRST INCREASE NATION’S WEALTH-THEN SHARE' IT Westminister


"V» Viewpoint by


DAVID WALDER Clitheroe


: trol,, statutory; voluntary, or what- we have f re ­ quen tly / experienced, something in between,


-neither one thing or the other.,--


some, miracle solution to put in its place.. For I sus­ pect that any government; Conservative or Labour, in the present, state- of the ecomony, will have to deal in compromises. -' "v; Total, lack of restraint, with everyone using his


.(? worth would obviously produce


Not, and I shall be hon­ est about it, that I have


- enough for all to see, the faults; in- any;, protracted system of rigid wage con-'


Division MP have demonstrated, clear


' how flexible is .flexible, and if 5 per-cent can stretch: to nearly-10 per cent, why mention it at ail? And what then are the prospects for the-year after next? ■■■ •/


»used to. describe this posi- ■ tion is “flexibility.” ■


Ye't


; So to the question of dif­ ferentials, which neither the Prime Minister, the Labour Party /conference,1 nor the: Trades ■-Unions; have so far mentioned. Now there is no Jaw.


- imply that there should be n o rewards for skill, - , employment, simply can-


. those who can, and thus hopefully increase employ­


..; the nation’s economic or social' welfare. Yet, for


■ months. Inflation is to be “kept at bay,” unemploy­ ment “not increased.” I suspect that had Mr Cal laghan taken the plunge and held an October Gen­ eral Election his message would have been very much an invitation to leave things as they are. Be con­ tent and take no risks even if it might be the risk of ari improvement. Of course, I accept that


thinking has become increasingly, negative, even in the last few


- we continue to be obsessed with the sharing of the nation’s wealth and not its possible increase. Some time ago economists and politicians used to use an irritating phrase about “shares of the national cake.” Some people get too much, others too little. We no longer talk about


a national cake, but wedo go on arguing about the comparative size of the slices.


as a nation, encouraged by Government, is trying to increase the size of the cake.


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Among local schemes PAE


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What we should be doing


we in Britain accept a posi­ tion of economic standstill? I suspect for as long as


the so-called rich nations of the world, principally Western Europe and USA, are increasingly under pressure. Many problems are simply outside the competence of national governments. Yet for how long must


ment as well, there are few incentives because of the burdens of taxation. So there is no way out of the vicious circle. The G o v e rnm en t’s


not increase their produc- tivity,though the tasks they perform are vital to


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daughter of Mr and Mrs A. Pearson, of Mitton Road, Whalley..


was held at Whalley Golf Club. •


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Broughty Ferry, Dundee. Photograph: Wally Tal­ bot, Blackburn.


The couple are to live in .


Found hiding’. in school


other offences to be consi­ dered.


having been remanded for reports and asked for 12


. But police discovered him hiding there and at Clitheroe magistrates court he was put on proba­ tion for two years. . Faulkner, of Highfield Road, Clitheroe, admitted entering: the school as a trespasser and stealing a tin of coffee worth £5.71-, and on another occasion trespassing at the school with intent to steal. He was appearing after


AFTER stealing a tin of coffee' from SS Michael an d J o h n ’s Scho ol, Clitheroe, Martin Patrick F a u lk n e r (17) again entered the school with the intention of stealing.


g ro om sm an was Mr Andrew Pearson. Ushers were Mr Derek Ralston and Mr Michael Pearson. The ceremony was per­


Barbara Duxbury and Miss Carol Ralston. . B e s t man was Mr Thomas Walker and


eldest son of Mr and Mrs F. W. Ralston, of West Ferry, Dundee. ' The bride; given away by her father, wore a Vic- to r ian -s ty le gown of broderie anglaise with a deep flounce, trimmed with lace and seed pearls. She had a Juliet cap and carried a bouquet of brown orchids and stephanotis with bridal ribbon. Attendants were Mrs


The bridegroom is the ; .


rento, Italy, followed the wedding of Miss Carole Vivien Pearson and , Mr Douglas 'Alexander Ral­ ston at Whalley Parish Church. . The bride is the only


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Robert Hartley, of Foul- ridge, on October 20th will be “Chalk and talk.”


Preventing crime


.dinner meeting at the Spread Eagle H o te l, Barrow. The speaker was Chief


who was accompanied by his wife also answered questions put by the Lions and their wives.


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CLITHEROE girl Shanal Akter (7), of Brook Street, wasl treated at Clitheroe Health Centre after being involved in a road accident on W a te r lo o R o ad , Clitheroe.


project for the provision of a youth, camp in the Lake D is t r ic t , ex p re s s in g thanks for help given by voluntary organisations. Chief Insp. Longrigg,


Insp. Ted Longrigg,- head of the Juvenile Bureau of the Lancashire Constabul­ ary. He told of the work of his department, explaining the problems encountered. He also described the


THE importance of crime prevention was stressed to members of Whalley and District Lions Club at their


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ficulties of interpreting the many regulations: related to the Building Acts and the differing interpreta­ tions by. various officers who had to deal with them. Delay in dealing with plan­ ning applications often meant an increase in costs before they were granted. Mr H. Creaser, a local


“THE hidden costs of b u r e a u c r a c y ’’ were explored by Mr Eric Walmsley, of Holden, when he a d d re s s e d Clitheroe Probus Club. He mentioned the dif­


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