http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0438921
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-26
issued: 1927-10-14
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note: fabor ^^^^#/jfoWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE VANCOUVER TRADES Al Supported by Fifty-eight Local Unions Trades Council, Working Button i l:lu. i for the Last Quarter of 1927 NO. tf-MEIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, OCTOBER 14,1927 FIVE CENTS PER COPY Company's Figures are Challenged by Employees ? / Representatives of the Employees Show, the Arbitration Board How the Cost of Living Figures Are Juggled by the Company—Vancouver Figures Are Higher W. H. COTTRELL CHALLENGED the company's cost^f living figures in the B. C. Electric Railway arbitration hearing. He showed that, by using certain Labor Gazette tables, the cost of living could he raised or lowered to suit one's purpose. This, he contends, is what the company had done. He alsp showed, however, that if certain other tables were used, there wa§. no change to juggle the figures, and these were the figures that the employees had worked upon, and he contended that, ins all fairness, the company shpuld have used the same table. In attacking the company's figures, he said: Q With regard to the Company exhibit No. 43, Mr. Saville said: "This chart shows the cost of living in Vancouver in June, 1927, compared with other Canadian cities where there are street, railways companies." Mr. Chairman, I have maintained that there is only one reliable guide regarding cost of living in the Labor Gazette, that is the food tables. That if you deal with these figures as set out in the Labor Gazette and take the set of the commodities taking the same quantities and standards *-you can g^t ah almost exact comparison, i That it does not matter particularly who makes the 'chart, it will ■ show the same result. I want to prove this by the Com- ' pany's chart, No. 43. Take the fig- - ures for meat and groceries and they show this: - Vancouver ....... $3.77 7.66 WAGES AND PRODUCTION American employers now generally express the view lhat high wages are advantageous as being an incentive to pro-* duction, as engendering a better feeling among their…

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