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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 24, 1982
Page
2
A reader recalls 1971 earnings of $140 weekly and a $7 000 yearly income, noting inflation has halved purchasing power by 1982. The column argues rising deficits and taxes drive high inflation, with Canada facing 12.2 percent unemployment and slow wage growth amid a costly welfare state and high fuel taxes.
A columnist ridicules metric units used in sports rosters and cites Ottawa’s push for metrication. He insists imperial measures suit farmers on the prairies and mocks the switch as unnecessary and foreign to traditional practice.
The editorial argues Paul Hellyer's move to force 3,500 locked out British Columbia longshoremen back to work was necessary and timely. It warns free collective bargaining harms third parties, presses for balance between labor and business, and calls for state protection of farmers, shipowners, and manufacturers while criticizing the law of the jungle in wage disputes.
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