Red Weekly1975Red Weekly No. 128, 4 December 1975'Social wage'
Red Weekly No. 128, 4 December 1975 · p. 2 of the scan · 128 words
The scan: rw-no128-dec-4-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)
Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 1-1 of 6; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.
page 2 of the scan
Some of the £1,000 a year spent for "our" benefit in 1973 went as follows: £91 in interest on money borrowed; C126 on Defence and External Relations; £112 to Commerce and Industry in hand-outs; and £27 to Justice and Law just in case anyone questioned this allocation too forcefully. Compare this with £69 on Housing, £129 on Education and £116 on Health and Personal Social Services, and you begin to get the idea that the social wage doesn't exist just for our benefit. Particularly so when you realise that most of it is paid for by working people's taxes and insurance, and taxes on company profits extracted from the workforce in the first place.
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