Orders of the Day — State of Emergency

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 15 November 1973.

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Photo of Mr Arthur Lewis Mr Arthur Lewis , West Ham North 12:00, 15 November 1973

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, and I agree with most of what he has said, but is it not a fact that, at this moment, the miners, the nurses, the doctors and the dustmen, who are doing the most urgent and necessary jobs, are among the lowest paid, while the property speculators and the sharks, who are not doing anything good for the country, are getting thousands and thousands of pounds a year?