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To Hell with the CRTC

Here is another reason why I think the U.S.A. is still the greatest country in the world.

Free radio express

For the occasional radio broadcaster we offer this great deal to get you on the air.

Send us $50 and a one hour audio file of your program.

We’ll play your program on our 7490 transmitter at the next best time available on our schedule.

We’ll run your show on our 5130 transmitter, at no extra cost, at the best next time available.

We’ll send you an email message when your program will air.

This is a great deal for those programmers who wish to get on the air from time to time.

I recently took advantage of this deal from WBCQ The Planet, and I was able to put something on international short-wave radio. My programme was nothing special, it was only music, but it was aired on a real radio station. It is something I never could have done in Canada. One reason is because there is not a single radio station (AM, FM, or SW) in Canada that I know of that leases air time to the public. The main reason is the Canadian Radio-televison and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).  

About Us

The CRTC is an administrative tribunal that regulates and supervises broadcasting and telecommunications in the public interest.

Unlike all radio stations in Canada, WBCQ is not restrained by the repressive CRTC that requires radio and television stations in Canada to be CRTC approved and licenced before a station may be permitted to broadcast.

Canadian content requirements for music on Canadian radio

Radio plays an important role in introducing listeners to new music and artists. CRTC policies and regulations ensure that Canadian works are played on Canadian radio stations.

The CRTC licenses seven general types of radio stations:

Commercial station
Campus station
Community station
Ethnic station
Native station
CBC / Radio Canada
Other not-for-profit stations

Each licensed station is required to devote a percentage of its weekly music broadcasting to Canadian content. The required amount of Canadian content depends both on the type of radio station and the type of music it broadcasts: Popular Music (Category 2) or Special Interest Music (Category 3).

Unlike radio stations in Canada, WBCQ will broadcast almost anything its programmers want to broadcast.

Free Speech On The Airwaves

WBCQ strongly supports the United States of America’s constitutional right to free speech. Programs aired by WBCQ’s clients are not censored in any way.

WBCQ believes that it’s programmers have the right to express themselves on the airwaves in any way they seem fit. This is why you will find a diverse mix of music, talk, commentary, spiritual, religious, and commercial programming on WBCQ. WBCQ only restricts programming content if the programmer directly advocates harming other human beings based on their race, creed, or national origin.

In Canada, the CRTC tells broadcasters what to broadcast to Canadians, and tries to completely control what broadcasting Canadians receive.

Content Made by Canadians

One of our goals is to ensure that Canadian broadcasting content meets the needs and interests of Canadians by delivering compelling, high-quality Canadian-made creative content from diverse sources on a variety of platforms.

Among other things, we engage in public processes that generate content policies, encourage linguistic duality, support public affairs programming, and support broadcasting for Canada’s diverse communities. We also support the maintenance and development of Canadian talent by ensuring that Canadian artists can create content for both Canadian and global audiences, that they can gain financial support, and that they can promote their creations.

Other ongoing activities related to content made by Canadians include:

Analyzing various broadcasting licence applications from the perspective of content made by Canadians

Issuing Canadian Program Certification to independent Canadian program producers for TV productions that use mainly Canadian crews and talents

Monitoring the programming and financial performance of broadcasters to ensure they comply with regulations and licence conditions

Getting my programme on WBCQ was easy and reasonably affordable for me. I created what I wanted. Nothing in my programme, absolutely nothing, complied with CRTC regulations. WBCQ aired my programme on international short-wave radio. The time I bought was mine to do with however I wanted. No censorship. My getting on the radio with WBCQ, and my listening to short-wave radio, is my way of telling the Socialist, Communist, Fascist, Racist CRTC to go to Hell.

I support short-wave radio. I support WBCQ. I support freedom. I support abolishing the CRTC.

© Trevor Dailey

A sample of City of London, Ontario, By-laws from 1879

220. All bread sold or offered for sale within the City of whatever shape or form, shall be in loaves of two pounds and four pounds respectively, and all bread sold or offered for sale within the City of any less weight shall be seized and forfeited for the use of the poor, provided always that nothing in this section contained shall prevent bakers or others from selling or offering for sale biscuits, buns, rolls, crackers, muffins or any other fancy cakes commonly made in the trade and not intended to represent or pass as a loaf or loaves of bread, and no person shall sell or offer for sale within the City bread made contrary to the provisions of this By-law.

221. It shall be lawful for any member of the Police Force or Chief of Police, or for the License Inspector at any time from six o’clock in the morning until eleven o’clock at night (Sundays excepted) to enter into any house, shop or place within the City where bread is sold or offered for sale and cause the bread found therein to be weighed, and if such bread shall be found to be less weight than provided by the next preceding section of this By-law, to seize and carry away the same order that it may be disposed of for the use of the poor in such manner as shall be directed by the Mayor, Police Magistrate or Chairman of the Hospital and Relief Committee.

260. The Market House now established and known as the Covent Garden Market situated between Dundas Street and King Street and Richmond Street and Talbot Street, and the Market Place adjoining thereto, shall continue to be the Market House and Market Place of the City.

261. Every day in the year except Sunday, Christmas Day and Good Friday, shall be a market day.

262. The Market House shall be opened every morning (Sunday, Christmas Day, and Good Friday excepted) by the Clerk of the Market at five o’clock between the first day of May and the first day of November, and at seven o’clock during the rest of the year; and be shut at two o’clock every afternoon all the year round, except Saturday when the market shall be kept open till ten o’clock in the evening.

269. Upon sale and delivery of potatoes within the City by the bag, the bag shall be taken and intended to mean ninety pounds weight.

355. Every manufacture of woollens, cottons, glass or paper shall, after having been established within the City a manufactory for all or any of the purposes aforesaid, and kept the same in operation for a period of six successive months, shall be exempt from taxation within the City in respect of the manufactory actually used by him for the purposes aforesaid, the personal property used or employed in such manufactory, and the income derived therefrom, for the period of five years, to be computed from the expiration of six months, provided always that whenever such manufactory shall cease to be used or run for the purpose aforesaid, or some or one of them; or if the manufacture of some or one of the classes of articles hereinbefore mentioned shall not be continuously going on at such manufactory, such exemption shall cease and determine.   

SOURCE: Charter and By-laws of the City of London - 1879

© Trevor Dailey

This article is revised from time to time.

The errosion of due process of law

At the base of all law is: justice. At the base of our system of justice is (a) the presumption of innocence (no person is to be treated as though she/he is guilty until proven guilty by a proper evaluation of the facts and law by a competent authority), and (b) competent authorities that ensure that, when allegations are made, they are subjected to a due process before anyone concludes, says, or implies that the accused is guilty.

SOURCE: Freedom Party Of Ontario's 2018 election Platform

On January 25, 2018, Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown stepped down from his position as Party Leader because of anonymous allegations of sexual misconduct by two women brought forth only in the news media.

The Liberal government of Ontario has introduced legislation that pressures employers and universities to cut ties with anyone about whom an allegation of harrassment or assault is made, without due process. Universities and employers - neither of whom have the proper training or regulation to ensure due process - are essentially required to conduct investigations that ought rightly to be conducted by police or other governmental investigatory bodies. Their findings are then judged in the “court of public opinion”. In practice, to avoid reputational harm, the university/employer is intimidated into expelling/dismissing a student/employee whether or not there is any compelling evidence to back up the allegation(s) made about him/her.

SOURCE: Freedom Party Of Ontario's 2018 election Platform

All three parties in the Ontario Legislature, the Liberals, the PCs, and the NDP, support this legislation, and by giving their support to it, support the rapid errosion of due process of law.

You’re gonna pay for the hand that you done
Now the rain’s gonna burn like the sun
The Devil’s risin’ on you
That crop won’t ever come

SOURCE: Extreme Music Production: Crop Won't Ever Come

Patrick Brown is now defending himself publicly against these accusations, but whatever the outcome, his political career is likely over, even if the accusations are found to not be backed up by the evidence.

For all the other moments #MeToo has wrought, the Patrick Brown story is seminal: A political leader is cut down like a sapling in the forest in a matter of hours, and none of his colleagues, in and outside of the Ontario Conservative party, and including the Ontario premier and the prime minister of Canada, have one word to say in the defence of fair play or the presumption of innocence.

Let it be perfectly clear.

The point is not what Brown allegedly did.

The point is that purely on the say-so of two women who claim he sexually assaulted them another prominent man has been ruined.

Whatever the merits of their accusations — and how is anyone to know? — the mere act of making them to a journalist was enough. This is all it takes now.

It means that every man in the world is vulnerable, not because he has necessarily misconducted himself, but because a woman may say he has.

SOURCE:  Christie Blatchford: What happened to Brown is fundamentally wrong. Every man in the world is now vulnerable 

© Trevor Dailey

 

Freedom Party Of Ontario and the Pre-Budget 2018 Consultations

If Finance Minister Charles Sousa’s response had not been audio recorded, I doubt many would believe it happened.

On February 1, 2018, Freedom Party of Ontario leader Paul McKeever testified at the Oshawa hearing of Finance Minister Charles Sousa’s Pre-Budget 2018 Consultations. McKeever was the second of approximately 36 speakers. McKeever identified 4 ways not to balance the Ontario budget. Although the speakers were to give back-to-back submissions limited to 3 minutes each, and although the entire consultation was scheduled to last only 90 minutes, Finance Minister Charles Sousa felt the need to respond to McKeever’s submissions immediately after he made them. Sousa spoke for 7 minutes. This is the transcript of his response to Paul McKeever, delivered in front of all attendees. NOTE: Sousa apparently mis-heard the Master of Ceremonies when McKeever was introduced because, in the close of his response to McKeever, he referred to Freedom Party’s as the “Green party”, and said that we were doing “good work”.

This recording includes both McKeever’s oral submissions and the Finance Minister’s response.

Prepared Text of Freedom Party of Ontario’s Submissions to the Finance Minister Charles Sousa (2018 Budget Consultations)

Transcript of  Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa's Response to Paul McKeever’s Pre-Budget Submissions

Freedom Party Of Ontario

UPDATE:

Liberals break key promise, Ontario will run deficit

© Trevor Dailey

London's failed socialist economy

On Saturday, about a dozen employers from Huron County were part of a Job Fair that took place in London. Media reports were these companies had a total of 150 positions to fill, and they came to London because they could not find enough workers. Hundreds of people, probably more than the 500 expected, attended that day looking for a job, including myself. So far, I have not been offered one. London falls dead last among all Canadian cities in employment rates and labor participation rates.

The irony of the location of the Job Fair did not escape my attention. It was held in East London. Once the industrial engine that helped drive the London economy for many decades it is now rusting out. Outside employers looking for workers held a Job Fair just a block away from the closed McCormick and Kellogg factories that have been empty for years. Just these two factories once employed hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people at a time, and both operated successfully for many decades. The last of many and various types of manufactures that once clustered in the area since the early 1900s. (Dominon Office & Store Fitting, Middlesex Mills, McCormick's, Kellogg’s, EMCO, Ruggles, Kelvinator, Supersilk, Hunts Mill, Club House Foods, Coca Cola).

Some people, including so-called economists, argue the economy has changed, and this is why manufacturing has declined in the province of Ontario. They use phrases like, “shifting economy”. Things have shifted, but not much in manufacturing. People still need the basics of food and clothing, and the luxuries of computer devices to be produced. Mass production enables more people to obtain more of the things they want, and in so doing, provides jobs for thousands of workers. It has been the political situation that has gone away from capitalism and into socialism that has mostly caused the profound decline in manufacturing jobs in the province of Ontario and the City of London.

Capitalism includes:

Private Property

Profit Motive

Freedom of Contract

Competition

Free Enterprise

No one is raising private money to restore and renovate the vacant factories so that they may be attractive to new manufacturers who will bring jobs. They are not finding ways to attract new business to East London. The City Of London is not lowering property taxes, eliminating over regulation, and offering these incentives for new owners to restore and renovate the vacant (many historic) buildings in London. The City is concerned with increasing taxes, increasing regulation, and spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars, probably one billion dollars, on a Communist social engineering Bus Rapid Transit scheme.

The financial records show that during the First World War London’s prosperity remained unbroken.

In 1922, with a population of 60,000 people, London ranked 6th in manufacturing output in all of Canada.

One London factory in 1922 produced more than all of London’s industry in 1871.

The City of London established the Town Planning Commission in 1922.

“Report On Town Planning Survey Of The City Of London” by Town Planning Consultant, Thomas Adams was completed April - May 1922. Main considerations for attracting business of 158 manufactures and 83 wholesale distributors surveyed were:

Labour facilities

More disposition of city to appreciate industry

Room for expansion

Railway facilities

Power supply

After her death in 1934, the City of London challenged Elsie Perrin Williams' Last Will And Testament in Provincial Court and succeeded in robbing her $1, 000,000 trust fund to spend on City projects.

The London Street Railway (L.S.R.) began on January 23, 1875, under an agreement with the City of London, and while the L.S.R. was privately owned, the L.S.R. fell under the complete oppressive control of the City.

In 1940, the City of London abolished street cars, and an all bus system was established. In 1941, the City of London removed street car tracks along Richmond Street, Dundas Street, and Oxford Street.

In the 1960s and the 1970s, city planning increased considerably.

At least three manufactures did not come to London in 1962 apparently because of City Hall red tape.

In 1974, City Council approved the plan for a bus mall on Dundas Street. Dundas Street from Adelaide Street to Elizabeth Street was closed to car traffic that was diverted to King Street and Queens Avenue. This road closure destroyed the economy of this area within a couple of years. The disastrous busway that the City spent hundreds of thousands of dollars constructing was removed in a few years, but the area's economy never fully recovered. Phase I of the London Urban Transportation Study published in 1974 had recommended that the Dundas Street busway plan be extended from downtown to Quebec Street.

Since its last failed attempts at this scheme in 1980 and 2008, the City in 2018 has succeeded in forcing thorough its Dundas Street "Flex Street" that is only a few blocks from the almost identical busway mall fiasco location of 1974.

The lack of adequate sewer facilities was given as an obstruction to industry coming to London in 1978.

In 1999, 45% of London's sewers were 30 to 50 years old, 18% were 50 to 80 years old, and 8% were over 80 years old.

Just Right 540 - January 25, 2017

Up the poll on the state of the city

London's drug epidemic problem

I think anyone over the age of 18 years may do whatever drugs he or she wants with the conditions that: one does not violate the rights of others, one does not do or bring drugs around me, and government does not force me to help someone who willing messed up his or her life. I am fed up with the taxpayer paid for free used needles being discarded all over the place in London, even when there are used needle drop boxes in public parks, on city streets, and in public washrooms. Have you ever walked into a public washroom to find someone shooting up?

Campbell Memorial Park at 380 Dundas Street, a few blocks from where I live, has long been a place where addicts go to shoot up, and frequently overdose. The park property once had a house that was home to William Saunders, a hard working self-taught scientist, and his family who contributed greatly to medicine and agriculture. There was once a plaque at the site commemorating Saunders and his achievements. That plaque has been removed. Instead there is a some kind of monument in the park to city vagrants who have died. There should be a statue of William Saunders there. Plaque Text:

Born in England, Saunders came to Canada in 1848 and became a manufacturing chemist. A recognized expert in scientific agriculture, he was appointed Director of the new Experimental Farms Branch of the federal Department of Agriculture in 1886. There he originated many promising varieties of fruit and grain and commenced the research which led to the development of Marquis wheat by his son, Charles. Charter member of the Royal Society of Canada and President (1906-07), he was a distinguished member of many learned societies and author of many seminal articles, papers and reports. He died at London.

I am tired of the attitude that drug addicts are victims, and that we all need to provide for these drug addicted underprivileged. I am sick of the free needles, and I object to buying an addict’s drugs. Could it be the reason London has such a drug problem because it gives away so many free needles that addicts from outside of London are coming here?

I have been unemployed more times than I can remember for long periods of time. The last was almost three years. I am unemployed now. I live in a cramped, cluttered, one room, run down hole of a downtown apartment that costs me far more in rent than it is worth. I receive no government relief of any kind. I live frugally off of my savings from working and my line of credit. I have never done drugs (including weed). I rarely drink. I do not get drunk. I do not blame anyone else for my troubles or my mistakes. I earn the help I get. An addict’s drug problem is not my problem. It is their choice. It is their responsibility.

© Trevor Dailey

 

 

Minimum wage law: no one gets it if there isn't any

As of January 1, 2018, the minimum wage in the Province of Ontario has risen from $11.60 per hour to $14.00 per hour. That is a 20.69 % increase overnight. It is set to rise 7.14 % to $15.00 per hour on January 1, 2019. That is a total increase of 27.83 %. It will still rise again every October based on inflation.

The Province of Ontario had no minimum wage law until the United Farmers of Ontario government (1919 -1923) legislated it for women. The Conservative government of Ontario legislated minimum wage law to include men, at a higher minimum wage than women, in 1925.

To those people who have said the previous minimum wage was not enough, I say stop your complaining and get to work; and hope you are not one of the 50,000 people predicted to lose their jobs because of minimum wage going up. What wage is better than no wage at all?

Minimum wage law is about using force. It is about the socialist ideal, redistribution of wealth from those who earned it to those who did not earn it, eliminating freedom of contract, eliminating competition in the marketplace, and increasing government theft. The government steals a portion of everyone's paycheques through taxes so a minimum wage earners's net pay is actually less than the legal minimum wage.

From the example image above:

An employee works 75 hours during a bi-weekly pay period at minimum wage of $11.60 per hour and earns $870.00. The employer must pay the employee 4% vacation pay that is calculated to be $34.80. The employee's gross pay is $904.80. The government takes $38.12 from the employee's pay for Canada Pension Plan (CPP). The employer is forced by government to pay $38.12 to the government for CCP on behalf of the employee. The government takes $15.02 from the employee's pay for Employment Insurance (EI). The employer is forced by government to pay $21.03 for EI on behalf of the employee. The government takes $83.76 from the employee's pay in tax. This leaves the employee with a $767.90 paycheque. Subtracting the $34.80 vacation pay from employee's net pay leaves a wage total of $733.10. Dividing the employee's net wage (less vacation pay) by the 75 hours worked in the bi-weekly pay period means the employee was actually paid $9.77 per hour. That is $1.83 below a $11.60 minimum wage.

An employee works 75 hours during a bi-weekly pay period at minimum wage of $14.00 per hour and earns $1050.00. The employer must pay the employee 4% vacation pay that is calculated to be $42.00. The employee's gross pay is $1092.00. The government takes $47.38 from the employee's pay for Canada Pension Plan (CPP). The employer is forced by government to pay $47.38 to the government for CCP on behalf of the employee. The government takes $18.13 from the employee's pay for Employment Insurance (EI). The employer is forced by government to pay $25.38 for EI on behalf of the employee. The government takes $122.22 from the employee's pay in tax. This leaves the employee with a $904.26 paycheque. Subtracting the $42.00 vacation pay from employee's net wage leaves a total of $862.26. Dividing the employee's net wage (less vacation pay) by the 75 hours worked in the bi-weekly pay period means the employee was actually paid $11.49 per hour. That is $2.51 below a $14.00 minimum wage.

The difference in take home pay of the employee earning a minimum wage of $11.60 per hour and earning a minimum wage of $14.00 per hour for a 75 hour bi-weekly pay period is a net increase of $1.72 per hour.

The government takes $196.05 from the employee's pay who works 75 hours in a bi-weekly pay period at $11.60 per hour. The government takes $260.51 from the employee's pay who works 75 hour in a bi-weekly pay period at $14.00 per hour.

The employer must pay an additional $5, 221.32 per year in wage, CPP,  EI,  and tax to employ the employee at a minimum wage of $14.00 per hour.

Complete government control over the economy, and keeping people poor. Socialism, Communism, and Fascism. All on the Left. All alive and well in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Update: Apparently, the new Ontario Progressive Conservative government has paused the minimum wage increase until 2020. In 2020, the minimum wage may be raised to $15.00 per hour, and then increase each year based on inflation. If true, then the Ontario Progressive Conservatives are following almost exactly the same minimum wage plan of the defeated Ontario Liberal government.

 Just Right 515 - July 27, 2017

ONTARIO'S POLITICIANS ON FASCISM’S DOORSTEP

Kevin Flynn, Ontario's Minister of Labour (Liberal) has made it explicitly clear that his government's planned minimum wage increase is not about minimum wages at all.  The legislation has been designed primarily for the purpose of exercising the Liberal Party’s Marxist philosophy, most popularly (and incorrectly) understood as:  "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need..."          

“We told our advisors ‘Don’t deal with minimum wage’ because we already have a good handle on that,” Flynn said to interviewer Andrew Lawton on July 10. 

“The underlying principle is that there are a number of people in our province that are doing very well these days.” (From each according to his ability…)        

“The underlying concern is that people in this province are making less than $15 per hour, which we know is below the poverty level.” (…to each according to his need).          

So the whole minimum wage debacle is not about minimum wages at all!  It’s about socialist wealth redistribution, plain and simple. Straight from the Labour Minister’s mouth.          

Worse, Flynn hinted at government plans to impose a different “business model” on small and medium businesses that pay minimum wages.  His apparent intentions are to destroy what little is left of free enterprise and impose complete state control and regulation of small business via fascism – in the service of socialistic wealth redistribution purposes.  This movement to the Left has already been well under way for some time in Ontario.

Tragically assumed by many to be offering an alternative to the Wynne Liberals, Patrick Brown, leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party, fully supports both the Marxist principle and fascist plans to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour.  These intentions have been made very explicit and you can hear both Brown and Flynn attest to them in their own words on today’s show.          

In political terms, minimum wage laws are properly categorized as being fascist (state control of private property/contract/association, etc.).         

Think “fascism” is too strong a word?  Consider that, effective January 1 of this year (and fully supported by all members of the legislature), it is now illegal in the province of Ontario to freely associate for political purposes. Yes, political freedom of association has literally been made illegal in the province of Ontario.          

This is fascism, and the details of how rapidly fascist policy has taken root in Ontario are alarming.  From politics – to minimum wage laws – to fighting climate change, and more, Ontario offers demonstrable proof that fascism sits on the Left, along with its socialist/communist brethren.

No matter how many may disagree with our use of these labels of the Left to describe Ontario today, few would disagree with the corollary: The one thing Ontario is NOT, is Just Right.

- Just Right Media

RUSH TO STOP ONTARIO LABOUR BILL 148

As you know, the Ontario government has introduced Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act. Left unchanged, this bill will harm workers, especially young and unskilled workers, increase costs for businesses, and make Ontario less competitive. The Ontario government is rushing this bill through the legislature with unprecedented speed. Let your voice be heard. Contact your Member of the Provincial Parliament (MPP) and tell them to stop the rush—good jobs are at stake.

Among the changes included in Bill 148 are:

A minimum wage increase to $14 per hour on Jan. 1, 2018, and to $15 per hour on Jan. 1, 2019 (a 32% increase in 18 months).

A new proposal to implement “Equal Pay for Equal Work” for Temporary Help Agency employees to be paid the same as permanent workers with comparable work/conditions/experience/skills.

New conditions for part-time/casual/seasonal workers to be paid the same as full time workers.

Establish card-based union certification for the temporary help agency industry, the building services sector, home care, and the community services industry.

Increase overtime and public holiday pay.

Increase minimum vacation entitlement for workers from two to three weeks per year (for employment period >5 years).

Allow any employee to take two paid days off with no minimum service, earnings, or doctor’s note required. Thus, a temporary worker could work one hour and receive two days pay with no explanation and no note, and repeat this across multiple agencies each year.

Double the Ministry of Labour’s current complement of workplace inspectors by adding 150 new inspectors.

Bill 148 will lead to:

Fewer Jobs.

Fewer entry-level opportunities for young and unskilled workers looking to build their experience.

Fewer roles for seniors and retired workers who need to earn occasional money to supplement their retirement income.

Less Opportunity.

There will be fewer jobs in Ontario as Bill 148 will make it significantly more expensive to operate a business. Ontario will be less attractive as an investment opportunity.

More costs.

A huge spike in labour challenges from permanent workers who will expect wage parity with temporary workers (often clients pay more for temporary help because a skilled worker on contract can demand higher wages). Significantly higher costs of public holidays for all employers that engage students, part-time employees, casual workers, and temporary help.

Less Productivity.

More red tape, more inspections, and more potential abuse of the emergency-leave provisions and scheduling changes resulting in less work opportunity, frustrated employers, higher business costs, and reduced productivity in Ontario.

- Express Employment Professionals

Another fact should be borne in mind, namely, that the shop we bought was literally a sweat-shop, and that sweat-shops are always made up of inefficient workers who can not get a job in a high-grade shop. Wages in what are known as "inside shops," run by the factories themselves, always start where the sweat-shop wages leave off; thus the wages that were being paid in this shop at the time we took it over, must not be confused with the wages paid in the inside shops of the large clothing manufacturers of Cincinnati.

"We all looked at him, and after a minute's silence he went on: 'Whatever this Golden Rule thing is I don't know, but what Mr. Nash told us was that all he wanted us to do was to work just as we would want him to work if we were up in the office paying wages, and he was back here doing the work. Now I know, if I was the boss and would come in and talk to the workers as he did, and raise wages like he has, I'd want every one to work like hell!'

- The Golden Rule in Business, by Arthur Nash

Back home in Canada, George Weston Limited remained profitable, in spite of the Depression. That allowed the company to do something remarkable for the times — establish a minimum wage for its male employees. In 1934, married men were guaranteed a wage of $22 a week and single men $18 a week.

- Britain’s Biggest Baker

The first thing that happens, for example, when a law is passed that no one shall be paid less than $106 for a forty-hour week is that no one who is not worth $106 a week to an employer will be employed at all. You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. In brief, for a low wage you substitute unemployment. You do harm all around, with no comparable compensation.

- Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt

Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed. 

- Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

- Milton Friedman

Back in China, after returning to their families for the [Chinese New Year] holiday, most workers stay away for weeks (officially it's a 15 day holiday), and factories have no idea who will come back and who won't, as many people take the opportunity to renegotiate or change jobs. There are usually more jobs than skilled workers to fill them in China, which means workers can pick and choose and are in a strong position to make demands.

- Catherine Clavering

The purpose of businesses is to make a profit, not to provide a service or a product.

- Catherine Clavering

© Trevor Dailey

Freedom Party Of Ontario

Just Right Media: Minimum Wage

 

 

Low unemployment numbers high unemployment?

According to what I have been reading, the unemployment rate is at the lowest levels in decades in countries around the world. This seems to be good news until one reads in the same articles the number of unemployed is at high levels. This contradictory information states that while the unemployment rate is low, a large number of people, usually given as vague “adults”, are facing persistent unemployment. What puzzles me is the lack of reasoning that one part must be wrong.

I have yet to read a single article questioning if the method for calculating the unemployment rate, or the method for calculating the number of employed, is an accurate form of measurement regarding these things. Instead I read articles that interview university professors, economists, Chamber of Commerce representatives, and social workers for answers. Of course, not one article I have read has asked any business owner or operator his or her opinion. Would the ones who directly employ people not be the first one should ask about the subject? Apparently not. Like the minimum wage debate, employers are shut out of the discussion.  

Unemployment or employment numbers do not mean a thing. Either you have a job, or you do not. That is all that matters. Unemployed or employed, one may ask an employer if they are hiring, and one might then ask why, or why not? 

(c) Trevor Dailey

Foray Into Fiction: It The Individual

Community Services are not concerned with the death of a Member found early this morning. It was found dead outside in the public, and was discovered by a Community Services Member conducting its duties for the public.

“It was well known to Community Services,” said Community Services Officer 741920. “We had obliged it many times for a contribution to the community for not carrying it’s personal identification sharing device. It always would tell us it ‘refused to be obliged’ and that it ‘refused to contribute’. It said its name was ‘Perrin McCormick’, and it said it was 'not a Member, but an individual'. It said it owned a factory once called the ‘Perrin McCormick Bakery and Confectionary Company’ before what it said 'the socialists stole it from me'. It obviously was a denier, and a criminal for engaging in private enterprise, but it was a Member, so we were obligated to take care of it, but it would not allow us to do so. It denied everything.”

We at the Community Services Information Service searched all government commerce records, and without any doubt, the ‘Perrin McCormick Bakery and Confectionary Company’ could never have existed since no private enterprise is legal. However, it is known that private enterprise did once exist, it was once legal, in the time before such evil, created by untempered individual freedom, was finally purged from society along with its cause: the selfish wants of the individual.

It came to the end of the report, and its reading device went into sleep mode. A wave of sadness flowed over it. It new It. It knew It was telling the truth. It knew the real evil. It had secret images of the factory, documents, all kept on paper to prevent detection. It knew of others who had information of a time when individual freedom was allowed. A time when dreams, occupation, knowledge, ignorance, religion, tradition, temptation, life, death, failure, success, love and memories could be a part of its, one’s, life. One once had individual rights. One once had individual choice. One once had individual freedom.

Its device beeped and awoke from its sleep mode. Its ID number came on screen. Frequent check ins were required. It must log in. It paused. It was prompted again; and then it was warned. It watched the countdown on the screen. It felt the feeling stronger than it had ever felt before. It whispered its forbiden name to itself, and with purpose it spoke these words out loud: “I refused to be obliged. I refused to contribute. I am an individual. I will be free.”, then it threw the device to the ground, and it ran.

(Inspired by, Anthem, by Ayn Rand)

(c) Trevor Dailey