Orders of the Day — Incomes and Productivity

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 December 1961.

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Photo of Mr Percy Collick Mr Percy Collick , Birkenhead 12:00, 18 December 1961

The hon. Member is losing sight of a vital fact. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer seriously expected his pay pause to be well received among the trade unions, how does the hon. Member expect that the trade unions could favourably respond to it when, only a few weeks earlier, the Chancellor, in his Budget, had announced his intention to give £83 million a year to the Surtax payer. Until the Chancellor takes that back, I do not think that the Government will get any co-operation from the trade unions.