ABSURD | IMGpapers 1976

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comparisons. The latest figures show mar wares montan are une owest in Western Europe apart from Austria, Spain, Portugal and Ireland. Furthermore, taxes on the working class are higher than in virtually any other country - a worker with one child on the average industrial wage pays 21 per coul tax u Drain comparcu L0 0.3 Dcl cent in Austria, 5 per cent in Portugal. and to per cent in soamn tro take te other chief low wage countries).

laxanon is only nigner in Denmark. at 21-32 percent where wages for a skilled worker are x 9/ a week and Not way, at 20-23 per cent where the average wage is £892. In short the British working class is paid less and taxed more than in any of the major countries in On the argument that it is high wages when are responsole or orice rIses, tner inflation in Britain should be lower than It is the same story if one looks at Wares Over a sHorter Derod ol ume. toi example, from 1970 to the end of 1973 real weekly wages rose by only 1z.s per cent. Furthermore, productivity in the crucial manufacturing sector of the economy had risen by 17.5 per cent, so that caen worker was producing rapidiy more - and indeed had increased production more rapidly than wages.

Yet in that period prices rose by 33 per cent. There is absolutely no way in which such an increase in wages lower than the increase in production could in such conditions produce a rise of one third in prices.? Yet we are still supposed to swallow the absurd lie that it is wage increases which are responstole or nuaton Figures from other countries tell exactly the same story. The most strikWECA technicians through the employment of British

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Another loophole appears to be contained in Paragraph 5, section f', of the Export Order. This permits the export via the Channel Islands of a whole range of militarily valuable million of investments. These imp erialist corporations are raking in a fortune off the backs of the black workers who are not allowed to strike, are controlled by a multitude of restrictive apartheid laws and are paid at or below bare sub-