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This measure is calculated to fit into the government's incomes po icy offensive. Peter Shore was the man who drafted Labour's election manifesto, and this leads commentators to assume that the bill will receive government support, Until its details are published it is too early to: comment at any length: but one obvious point needs to be made. It concerns the question of who should regulate the incomes of top managemente To compel disclosure to an "impartial" commission, or to shareholders, is by no means enough to guarantee safe conduct to an incomes policy. Unless the workpeople themselves are able to control and judge top management incomes, and unless they have access to all the accounts in order to be able to check upon false declarations, the whole measure will prove to be meaningless,
Suitable amendments to this measure should be drafted, and tabled, by left wing M.P.s There can scarcely be any objection to the amendment of a private member's bill}