Q How effective do you consider the pay
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freeze has been as regards salaried workers? Do you anticipate that transport white-collar workers' salaries will reflect an upward trend in 1967?
AA survey published by the Graduate Appointments Register showed that in a sample of 2,000 replies from men and women using the appointments service in the past year, 14 per cent had received an increase since July 1966 but only 2.5 per cent of the increases contravened Government policy. If this pattern is true of all whitecollar employment, the freeze policy has been from the Government's point of view— remarkably successful.
Transport white-collar staff salaries are likely to increase in 1967 though no one can be certain by how much. There is increasing restiveness among salaried staffs at the reduction in differentials—the cause of the one-day strike by London Transport inspectors on January 20. Mooted Government policies possibly involving higher family allowances for low-paid manual workers, with reduced tax allowances for middle-income salaried employees, may sharpen demands by whitecollar unions for proportionate increases in pay.