57 POVERTY AND LOW PAY (see page 569)
Congress, being aware that the problems of poverty arising among lower paid workers and in families, referred to in the resolution adopted by the 1970 Congress, are of still greater concern four years later, calls upon the General Council to pursue more vigorously inquiries into the respective roles of state and occupational pension schemes, the effects of taxation both direct and indirect, the effects of the application of means tests to various benefits and reliefs, the increasing of family allowances and their extension to the first child, with a view to preparing an authorita- tive report on wage and income levels throughout the economy and the policies to be pursued to establish a guaranteed weekly income as of right and eradicate poverty in every sector where it is found to exist.
Mover: Union of Shop, Distributive & Allied Workers