Labour Party Policy
Sir,—“Ransom” is wrong about the Seamen’s Union being a monopoly as it is a body formed to ensure that its members have decent wages and working conditions. Labour Party policy on the development of undesirable monopolies is on the lines of the Take-over Bill introduced by Mr M. A. Connelly. M.P. This bill was rejected because of strong opposition by the National Government which then brought down its own ineffective take-over measures. The present high cost of living is due to the National Government's allowing these monopolies to develop through eliminating competitors by take-overs and mergers.—Yours, etc., DISILLUSIONED NATIONALIST. August 20, 1970. [A misprint occurred in the letter of “Ransom” under this heading on Thursday. His reference was to “a most undesirable, irresponsible and widely damaging monopoly. , , .”]
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32382, 22 August 1970, Page 12
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