Va r increases. The fo STREET | MUtuel 1-6338 - 6339 B.C. LUMBER WORKER _ Knowles Provides Evidence That Wage Increases Do Not Cause Inflation lowing is an ‘argument to end all arguments to de- fo The fou termine whether wage increases ‘ollowi ‘or pri sah aa ‘excerpts from an address 3 given by and wage-rates 12.7. ing ies of Canada. Ii d by the ae are of s unionists to be kept on file for with the enoivers os iat ible for pushin: “I know ‘es no Eris that wage increases have in fact | te™ i CLC, bef t is suggested Het the shins as as ufficient vi e for active 4 reference chan en Yy are faced wages have been solely respons: n inflatio 108 in Can: mn i first post-war gptlations just after the ee pended The came from the long pen ada since World War and pi But from 1948 to 1949, consumer > pric es went up 0.7 per 56 far, ea tacit ger tecortee! Wi the UNICEF- in Kabul. to veterans, plus return Dea reductions, plus low crests mone; nae Saaaieh at the timé of are orean war, came from scramble for raw materials tout ed off by that war and the fear a bigger ae he third, just before the cur- Pent recession, was“an investment- “yy d, plu mpulsory ee ie -rates, in other words a concerting to those Mee cept or peddle the ponelat ag t, and that they cause a price-increase. “From 1951 to 1952, consumer wholesale prices 1949 to 1950, per cent, wage-rates rose 11.2 onk Se, “From 1950 to Ae oleae priees rose 8.9 per cei ime wage-rates ro: wages were only just catching mot Bt invest than there pes and I Believe Pr Pe iaesics Preceded “First, the price increases often came before the wage incre: up. with wholesale p quite at that, Bere tants yi years, 1946- i981, wholesale prices e 69.1 per cent and wage-rates only 56.9. “From 1951 to ae guolesate pte aren 1953 to ay wholesale ree fell 28 per cent, while ge-rates ro: 1985, wholesale prices rose 2.7 p and were greater. att i age usual | per cent, and wage-rates 4.9, for the effect to come first, and sazrom ea SOE arareiA the cause afterwards! Let us look fail 09 “Pe z ete at the changes in wages an center wholesale prices, from 1946 t year, since vee the wage-rate index is cal- ted. ae er: y e Hee ‘ine, scl Prices were 58. netfan nae ne 106.2 per cent. From “949. re 198, e 3.2, roi 1934 ie Wage , while wage- rose 7.2, which is even more me to 1953, 6 per cent, rates Cee Fro: es Tosi Tose more per cent above 1946, and real cee product rose just barely less than real wage-rates. It was not until ‘1952 that the index of real wage-rates (October eee 100) rose above the index of pi dui uctivity (1946=1 “By 1955, productivity was 23,18 .96 per cent. In other wor ae ees in- thi e ‘wage-rati 70. That is the story for the private business economy as a whole.” comune prices rose 2.5 per cent, and wai rates 4.9. anion 1956 to ees consumer cel to 1957, the increase in consumer prices was 22.7 per cent, and the increase in Soe 56.5. “It is not easy to fit that into the eae pattern, either! Vages did lag behind con- sumer price: ges kept goil up every year, while consumer prices fell one year of tl en, and remained almo: tionary from 1951 to 1955, inclus- ive. In O r, 1955, in fact, the ‘ nsumer Bee eid was actual- 02 per fs tober, 151, tough: a ne up, in the same Pe cod eed 19.0 per ane Con: r pri ices ought a the increase ee wholesale “iitom 1946 to 1947, wholesale | \.4, 137 pi nt, and the i fac ease prices rose 23.2 per cent, wage-|in were rates 11.9. From 1947 a ea “Tr is not easy to fit that puto) ‘ the neat, popular, editorial patt and wage-rate the piaze price spiral. Wage: ‘From 1948 e oor ught go up first. But the: prices actually fell by iy oa ‘cent tia “they teaged pea and while wage-rates rose 4.5. From me r five Mass ee eae uj very a so prices ought to Printers The B.C. LUMBER WORKER s evidence of the post-war paper: Consumer Erie ric Avhat abou All right; Tes. ‘Took at i s. From 1947 ity ros mer | v But they didn’t. far less. Gross National Product age-Rates “From 1946 10 sod, productivity rose 1.45 per and real wage- as fell O08. “Fron cm = 1948, se er coat They went up rose ae ae cent, and real rates 3.7 “From Far to 1950, productiv- ity rose ent, and real w wage- 2.09. 1952, product per cent, and real w: gates e 3.87 p 5 obligation ic oi e | Progre: xamine "te social ee econ- omic splat sof i “And we have che aa Ee the ue nae social ‘omati that the ea by viteclt tees nothing but a method dui tion! “When automation and the new introduced, we an vara of pi a] a | + They sa = @e@e = a a 2 = Albert Whitehouse William O. Douglas Die ies zal Union Aces Justice, Supreme Court ans o> abor has mar Jon; eee labor does nut fight] way down the corridors of his- fecEnClori Droerer but weltory. In this country it had no ave a ae pana a ty to ques- thrown off the chains of a Hes th of the “ana and it by the ne itons of two generations. ig! ty Momentum “From the days of Byron and a at last eae Franlelin FRowerele it gath- SORE, were ered a mighty momentum and were greeted wi omises that) swept away the remaining threats atmatoal — if left to the cor-!o¢ an industrial serfdom porations ould bring about a1 «Collective ibesarytiathy and proble lems tablished and became the ascened practi ice and tradition. A h oul) be resolved. vi a ae breison of an ee Predicted “The experts predicted that aut- omati woulda create more jobs than it eliminated. Not too long ‘itl ertoreatieally create higher ising standards. cations would be very tempor and unimportant. ‘They told us that automation would create skilled jobs by the fens of thousands and that the new technology would bring {higher wages those it dis-| eee Tai hat the future jeor pue 4uoo sed ggg asox 4y1|T to 1948, consumer prices went up wage-rates 2.67. In four of the Hd LIMITED PRINTERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS An Employee Owned Co. 944 RICHARDS 24” L.E.L, $17.35; os LE.L. 24” McC Bas 90; BOX No. 66 SAW CHAIN 257 DISCOUNT oo EZ $19.9! Write for details JAY'S MAIL ORDER BURLINGTON, ONTARIO $20.15; 32” 1.E.L. $24.00 tl called fo fusing in the aoa and they ee prsnictes an utine drudgery i iets employment, t 30” ae -44 $23.10 to better tiving sda ‘for a ll. “Anybody offer a rd of caution who would destroy the m: teur chines and as a ae Bee on the ose things ref e were told ite any ae er were written on the books. Life, liberty and ee pursuit of f t piness became a part o} philosophy of fact r oe nent. Human rights — not prop- erty rights alon eee itand- ards of industrial ju The Nation’s a “yy noe Leanna che. whole body core tic We: sae itious food in the blo ‘the Fee se d_th argaining, a wholesome and friendly abnogshece for workers.” had just completed a ne ce sentence aueata i to. ana “about,” ically romised so blithely.” he said, “I’m four.”