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The growing interest in the possibilities of increased prosperity was shared by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), where the rapid rise of the continental worker's living standards in the form of higher pay, better pensions and improved conditions of service had made a strong impression.23 By late July 1961 this developing identity of opinion between Government and the peak institutions was powerful enough to ensure a favourable domestic climate for the news that the Cabinet had resolved to make a 'conditional application' for membership of the EEC, with TUC members voting in favour of the Government's recent application for membership at their September conference24 even though some powerful organizations such as the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) tended to be suspicious of the implications of membership for job security and a future Labour Government's ability to plan the economy.25
Although the FBI was enthusiastic about the new organization, the TUC was not.
The TUC remained well disposed to the idea of planning, and in fact shared the FBI's enthusiasm for a more expansionary economic strategy than the government had hitherto been following, but suspected that the NEDC was in reality the latest in a
This was his 'guiding light', intended to keep money wages from rising at an annual rate of more than 2.5 per cent over the next twelve months.68 The 'guiding light' was not a formal incomes policy, but it was seen by the TUC as a rather crude attempt to set a national pay norm.
The TUC did not give ground, and argued that trade union participation in the NEDC could not occur unless its agenda included the question of price and dividend controls.
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