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10 PROGRESS EDITION The Canadian Statesman. March 2, 197 Why Conimtrols Can'vut End 'Ï&Now The anti-intiation programi passed its first anniversary in October 1976. Th'le inflation rate, which had been runining at1 more than 10 per cent for 18 months prior to controls, basý eased to 6 per cent or better. Increases in wage de- mands are showing agradually Io wer trend. MNore aind more people are reaiding these first signs of success as good -easons to abandon the anti-inflation pro- gram. This would be inwise. While there bas been a slow- ing down in food price in- creases, consumer prices are stillkrising too quickly. Non- food items, which account for more than 70 per cent of the cost of living, showed ai year- over-year increase of 8.6) per cent nin Novemb-er 1976 comn- pared to 10.2 per cent before th.e Anti-Inflation Program was introduced. But this in- crease is stili too high. If we try to ive with a rate of 6 per cent or more, there is great AIB popular on podium One place the An ti- 1Inflation Board is popular is at the speaker's-podium in clubs and associations across the country. Although some Canadians may be angry about the mage and price control program al least they are not indifferent.- Such a flood of requests for speakers bas come into the Anti-Inflation Board that a Speaker's Bureau w\orks fulI timie illing requests from ser- vice clubs and other associa- tions wbose members want to hear more about the wvage and price control program. Over the past year the Speaker',; Bureau, \which operates out of the AI B office in Ottawa, has arranged about 600 speaking engagements across the country. Business groups, chambers of com- mierce and service clubs pro- vide,,the bulk of requests-and the speeches generally faîl in- to two categories: explana- tions by the technical staff about how the guidelines work and how they are ap- plied, and speeches on the' purpose of the anti-inflation program and the objectives of the Anti-Inflation Board. Speakers have addressed such disparate groups as the Home Economics and Teach- ers Association in Corner- brook, Newfoundland, and the Canadian Institute of Char- tered Accountants inVancou- ver. The Bureau bas filled requests from almost every major university in Canada and bas provided people for panel discussions and sem- mnars. Its speakers have ad- dressed some 300,000 Cana- dians at various functions s0 far and are willing to address more. The Speaker's Bureau can be reached by writing or tele- phoning Anti-Inflation Board-, 219 Laurier Avenue West, OTTAWA, Ontario. Tel. (613) 995-6577. Instant agency for gov't When you hav~e- to create an effective, highly qualified work force overnight where do you beg-in? The Anti-Inflation Board hiad a number of promnisingý sources: other federal depart- mentsý and agencies: private personnel agencie.sý individ- tÙals to be hired on contract. But the Executive 1 nterchange Programi also ives themi ac- Cess Io that mine of, talent out t ere in other levels, ofgov,,ern- ment and private inidustrv. 1The program provides for temporary assigniment of executives between'such di- verse organzations as univer- ite,.international agencies, the business community and aIl levels of government. The Executive Interchange project was undertaken in September 1971 to develop a better un- dlerstanding among executives of the problemis common to both business and government and to develop a spirit of.co- operation between the public and p ;vt ectoi. Througb this program the AIB bas benefited to the tune of some 40 employees who are wqerdnga public servants in suchi posi- tions as Industry Contract officers in Compnsti'on, Technical Consu tants inf Prices and Profits, Policy and' Planning ofcradDirec- tors of 1lndustry tea S This poolingrof inustrial, labor anid government exper- tise at the AIB is an effective exaýmple of the kind of co- operation w,ýhich is required of al sectors of the economy if inflation is to be licked. danger of inflation breaking out again to 8 or 10 per cent or igher. The story is similar on wage increases. Proposed average increases-in the first year of new collective agreements in the third quarter of 1976 were 12.7 per cent compared te 21.*8, per cent in the first nîne months of 1975. The improve- ment is considerable. How- ever, recent wage increases are still building in a premium based on anticipated inflation in the future. This brings us te expecta- tiens. A major change in the attitudes and expectations of individual Canadians must be made. We must aIl think in terms of less inflation and believe in less inflation. Until this is acbieved, people will Continue te act in ways that bring about more inflation, particularly in setting prices and in collective bargaining. In the most practical terms, we have te get into line with the United States. Tbis year the increase in wage rates of ail contracts in force in the U.S. averaged 8.4 per cent compared with an average of 11.9 per cent in Canada. Aise if we compare labour costs pyer unit of output between Canada and the U.S., in terms of U.S. dollars, for the second and third quarters of 1976, Canadian labour costs per unit of output increased by 16.4 per cent in the second quarter of 1976 and 14.8 per cent in the third, while U.S. costs increased by- 4.1, per cent and 5.8 per cent. Our costs must decline te a point where we regain competitive- ness with our world trading partners. Until we do, the time is net ripe for the ter- mination of controls. Long Established Industry in Bowmanville When The Goodyear Tire & 'then somne. We are Canada's Rubber Company decided to only manufacturer of steel- expand outside the U.S., there cable conveyor belting. We was a ready-made, facility at are one of the country's Bowmanville. This was in 1910, leading suppliers of sfow-, and the company set Up a tire track, ail-terrain vehicle track plant in a building until then and power transmission beit- occupied by D)urham Rubber -ing. We make pump part Company. 'sheet rubber, skirt board a In 1918, Goodyear moved its hundeds -of 'otherru;e tire manufacturing to a newly- products.-, built plant in Toronto and We also recycle annually a converted the Bowmanville million worn-out tires; which factory into an industrial instead of littering the land- products plant. scape, end up in various The Bowmanville operation rubber products. hasn't stopped growing since. As for benefitting the com- The plant's original f loor munity, Goodyear's Bowman- space was 44,000 square feet. ville, plant payroll in 1973 Today if is 320,000 square exceeded $4 million and local feet. purchases. reached $1.3 Originally, the plant had 125 million. employees. Now it employs Growing with the commun- somne 450 people. ity is a Goodyear philosophy. Modern business demands Bowmanville is a good diversity. We have this, and eXample of this. Mairsh World COOKIE CUTTER - As an aid ta improving water- fowl habitat, Ducks Unlimited uses a 'newly- developed machine known as the "Cookie Cutter', ta make channels of open water through stands of. dense cattail and other vegetation. 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