Michael Stewart in Glasgow

The scan: The Week v7 no9.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Tesseract OCR) from a scan of a stencilled typescript and has not been corrected. Expect misread words; titles in particular are often garbled where the issue printed no contents list. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: capitals heading; heuristic; title from the issue's contents list (match 0.80).

from Tony Southall Michael Stewart, Minister for Economic Affairs, received a hostile reception when he arrived at the Highlander's Institute, Glasgow, to address a Labour Party meeting last Saturday. The Hall was picketed by about 20 members of NALGO, who were protesting at the refusal to pay Scottish local government staffs the 7% pay increase which has been given to their Inglish and Welsh colleagues. JuStification for this grossly unfair treatment is that due to the existence of separate negotiating machinery, (something which NALGO has ctnsistently opposed) the Scottish award was not finalised until after the July 20th deadline, ayer all the local authorities in Scotland have expressed their support for/staffs and one, Rothesay, has decided to pay the increase and faces consequent legal action by the Government. Thus NALGO's dispute is directly with the Government, and not with their employers. Electricians in Scotland face a similar situation, for the same reasons, when their Inglish colleagues receive their promised 1/- an hour increase under the productivity agreement this month. In this case there are grave contradictions in the Government's policy. It is economic lunacy to make emigration to England even more attractive to skilled workers who are already in short supply in Scotland. About 50 members of the EIU turned up to picket Stewart's meeting and jostled and shoved him as he entered the hall. The Minister was clearly shaken at this opposition from workers, the majority of whom certainly voted for his party at the last election. He should also bear in mind that action like this give strength to the arguments of the dangerously chauvinistic Scottish National Party, whose membership and confidence is growing day by day. The Pollok by-election on March 9th will undoubtedly reflect the inroads they are making into traditional Labour support. ; Inside the meeting, Stewart was subjected to almost consistently hostile questioning on the operation of the wage freeze - and its seeming inoperation in the field of prices, :