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9. Cost accounting, prices, credit and profit should be used to give a real stimulus to increasing production and speeding technological advance, says the Communist Party newspaper in a page-long leading article. 10. Although Government salesmen are hard at work pushing the Common Market as our salvation, the miners in particular must beware of seeing this as an easy solution. 11. In the General Election, Communist candidates warned that the Labor policies being presented would mean restraint of wages (but not profits), keeping Britain in NATO and maintaining a huge arms expenditure. 12. The Association of Scientific Workers took strike action from last Monday when deadlock was declared over claims for rises ranging from 25 s to .£3 lodged in March of last year. 13. The union accuses Standards Motors of refusing to make any offer on the claim affecting 85 scientists and of rejecting their proposal to call in the chairman of the Joint Labor Council. 14. Analyzing the reasons for inflationary pressures within the economy, the minister gave as his opinion that the growing strength of the trade unions was largely to blame. "The better-paid are becoming increasingly organized in trade unions; unionization is proceeding up the social scale with the result that trade unions, so far from performing their original function of reducing inequalities of incomes, now increasingly perpetuate and can indeed aggravate inequalities." 15. In concentrating upon full employment as undoubtedly the biggest boon to most voters, the Labor Party runs the risk, well known to bridge players, of counting its trumps two or three times over, while failing to recognize the losing tricks in its hand after five years of mixed success and failure in office. 16. Yet in his Budget statement in May the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that keeping the troops in West Germany was conditional on the Bonn Government meeting the foreign exchange cost, and that this should be decided by the autumn of this year. 77
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