translate English to French: An across-the-board wage increase threw the budgetary process into disorder, since revenue had not been raised by the previous year's taxation.9 General increases, moreover, were on the whole unsatisfactory: in certain parts of the service there were employees who were well paid in comparison with outside practice, while many other groups were consistently underpaid by comparison.
Le mécontentement, chez les associations, menaçait de les jeter dans les bras du syndicalisme ouvrier, car il semble que le Congrès canadien du Travail aurait été plus qu'heureux de fournir aux fonctionnaires ses propres données résultant des recherches. Le conseil du Trésor était lui aussi gêné par cette absence de mécanisme approprié.