The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-09-10

LOndOn-Haye wages in Britain now
reached the limit to which they can
safely be allowed to 20 under war con-
ditions? There are indications that this
question will soon be the subject of
vigorous discussion.
A leading article in the London
Times" which reviews the results Of
the Governments policy, in agreement
with the Trade Unions, of fixing prices
makes the suggestion that the time has
come for the Government to make an
appeal, with all the authority of the
national need behind it, to the Unions
to cooperate in operating a national
wage policy. The aim should be, it is
urged to relate the wage structure to
the cost of living and to restrict inde-
pendent upward movement of wages
whose only result is to augment pro-
duction costs and drive prices up in the
diminishing field of consumers goods
where prices are still relatively free
to tiuctuate.
Point is given to this proposal by an
vi IiS pIVSVht
wage position, by Professor A. l.. Bow
ley. i'm the Bulletin of the London and
Cambridge Economic Service. This
analysis shows that, comparing the
whole of 1941 with the whole year
1898. there was an increase of 50 per
cent in total wages.
Four factors have contributed to this
result: first, the increase of numbers
employed in civil life, which Professor
Bowley puts at about Is per cent 3;
second, the increase in wage rates,
which is estimated to be about % per
cent; third, the gain in earning, COM
puted to be about 10 per cent: and
fourth, an increase in total payment
to ranks in the armed forces. AS the
first three factors aggregated show an
increase of 6S per cent, the pay and
allowances of the fighting services are
included only for reasons of statistical
completeness and accuracy.
More Applications Outstanding
A rOught measure of the side-by-
side movement of the Wage-rate and
the Cost Living index numbers in
Professor Rowley's survey shows that
the weighted average of wage-rates
(taking August, 1880 at 100 for both
indices) has risen to 1867 and the
!, Cost living index to 12SH-these be-
ing the figures for April of the present
year. They confirm the opinion eX-
pressed in the "Times" that whilst
there is no justification for relaxing
vigilance, the economic policy of the
Government has been attended with
considerable success.
But there are substantial wage
claims still to mature-among them
the application of the engineering
unions, the railwaymen, the building
trade operatives and some smaller
unions. These claims, it is argued, con
sttute a reason for reconsideration OF
the policy by which wages have been
left to determine themselves by normal
methods
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