Charity cheque a 'shady precedent', says MP
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• A Conservative MP has expressed -astonishmentat Employment Secretary Mrs. Castle's refusal to refer to the Prices and Incomes Board the payment of £5,000 by a road haulage firm to the TGWU to end a labour dispute. (CM last week).
In reply to a written Parliamentary question by Mr. Edward Taylor. an Opposition spokesman on transport, Mrs. Castle said it was not a matter for the PI B.
The firm concerned in the case is Stephenson Clarke Industrial Services and the dispute was at its Walsall depot.
"I am astonished by the Minister's apparent lack of interest in the case", Mr. Taylor told CM. "I understand that all payments fall within the provisions of the 31 per cent norm, and this most unusual payment was clearly 'income' to someone.
"In the absence of Ministerial action one can only hope that the TUC with its new 'power' will take energetic steps to investigate what has all the signs of being a very dangerous and shady precedent."