ee Petar Spek hioel Weqnd Barret! Fisher Linda Stewart Publisher: Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Advertising Director 6 - Wednesday, September 24, 1986 - North Shore News Display Advertising News Viewpoint me | 980-0511 The doctors’ cartel 985-2131 Distribution 986-1337 Subscriptions 986-1337 hiropractors exist and prosper for one simple and obvious reason: they fulfil a widespread public need sot adequately met by regular doctors. Ours is an age of sedentary work and lifestyles, fre- quently punctuated by overtly strenuous exercise in an effort to compensate. As a result, men — and a yrow- ing number of women — from early middle age on- ward who have never sought a chiropractor's help for back problems are the exception rather than the rule. And why not?) Chiropractors are fully qualified health care professionals. They graduate after a rigor- ous four-year training course plus two years of univer- sity science. Tney are licensed by the government and pald under its medicare scheme. It's scandalous, therefore, that the establishment still bars doctors from any professional association with chiropractors and won't even let the Jatter treat their own paticats in hospital, [Us not even as though chiropractors want admitting privileges. They are secking only ACCESS — as the current ap- plication to LGH by Dr. David Olson, still) being stonewalled by the hospital administration, re-em- phasizes. The real sufferers, however, are their hospitalized patients with back pain who know from = experience their chiropractor could fix it ina couple of visits. He should be allowed to do so. Clearly, members of the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons don't presently satisfy patients in this specialized area of treatment. If they did, there would be no chiropractors. And until they do, the grip of their rigid cartel should be loosened — by fav: if neces- sary. « Narth Shute News / WEDNDSDAY «FE IDAY . ve . 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 SUNDAY Entre contents 1986 North Shore bree Press Lid) All nQhis resenved 57,656 LAST NIGHT, PREMIER VANDER ZALM ALSO PROMISED FUNDS FOR .. ; medical ce ne Hae are , emiee An unemployment cure probably more painful than the disease? IS HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT incurable? Many victims, especially in B.C., are beginning to wonder — but NOT so two economics professors whose new book points to a radi- cal form of treatment. As with many serious medical conditions, the treatment is definitely not pleasant. Whether it’s worse than the disease is ultimately for the patient to decide. The two ‘profs ~— Simon's Fraser’s Herbert Grubel and his former colleague Josef Bonnici, now at Deakin University in Australia —- made a comparative study of unemployment in Canada and the U.S. with some startling results. They found the two countries’ jobless rates remained largely in step until] 1974, after which Canada’s rate jumped ahead and reached about four percentage points above the U.S. by the 1980s. Government policies had nothing to do with this, says Grubel, U.S. monetary and deficit policy since 1974 has, in fact, been considerably LESS stimulative for job creation than Canadian policy. What the two researchers also discovered, however, was a quite dramatic difference between wage levels in the two countries. Up to 1965 average weekly wages re- nadian labor costs (i.e., low pro- ductivity) matched almost iden- tically the pattern of high Cana- dian unemployment rates in’ the same period. Noel Wright mained roughly equal. But since then ‘real’? weekly wages in Canada have risen 35 per cent more than in the U.S, High wages, of c ssise, are fine so long as tney lead to high pro- ductivity, because that means no rise in ‘tunit Isbor costs’? — in other words, though you pay workers more, you get more from them. But Grubel ame Bonnici found, alas, that inis didn’t hap- pen. They discovered that, from 1974 onwards, unit labor costs in Canada shot up way above those in the U.S. and have remained that way ever since. Moreover, they noted that the pattern of high Ca- LETTER OF THE DAY Time to clean up Dear Editor: This is not the first time I have written about our famous Stanley Park. The first letter was never published. Some years ago, a murder was committed and the body was found in Stanley Park. Even today, the same condition ex- ists there. If 1 were rich, I would donate enough money to scrub out the underbrush, haul out all the fallen trees, cut down old and dangerous ones, put grass and pic- nic tables in, and make it like a park should be. A fine example of this is Bur- naby. I remember, when we lived in that area, Central park was a @ focus ® Finally, the profs took a look at unions and unemployment in- surance in the two countries, again with telltale results. Unionization in both countries stood at around 30 per cent of the work force until the 1960s, after which there was again a marked divergence. In Canada unioniza- tion has now risen to 40 per cent, while in the U.S. it has dropped below 20 per cent. UI benefits today represent about 40 per cent of an average worker’s income in the U.S. and that was also the figure for Canada up to 1970. But over the past 15 years Canadian UI benefits have soared to nearly 75 per cent. jungle. Look at it now. With some swings and slides for children, the odd barbecue, water taps and drinking fountain, Stanley Park could be a placepeople would enjoy going to. I also remember when people living in the West End used lo go for a walk in the park in the evening. Now The conclusions drawn from these statistics by the authors of the study are pretty obvious. Growing unionization in Canada has forced Canadian employers to pay higher wages than their counterparts below the border, where unionization is declining. The cost of those higher wages has been offset by introducing labor- saving technoijogy which eliminates jobs. Meanwhile, high Canadian UI benefits discourage unemployed workers from taking low-paid jobs. And entrepreneurs who might otherwise provide such jobs are frequently scared off by fear of unionization. The two tough policy solutions proposed by Messrs. Grubel and Bonnici are: (a) to cut back UI benefits; and (b) to reduce the power of unions by revising pro- vincial labor codes. And they free- ly admit that ‘‘these policies may be seen by some as a cure that is worse than the disease of high unemployment." But the only alternative, they warn, is for unemployment to keep on growing. In short, major surgery or else ...! Why Is Canada’s Unemploy- ment Rate So High? published by the Fraser Institute is available in bookstores everywhere. If the question bothers you, it’s a book worth reading. tanle they wouldn’t go in there for a gold medal. It is an ideal hang-out for muggers, dope peddlers, rapists and murderers. You don’t have to go out of town to dump the body. I'll bet if it was properly scrubbed out, you would find the remains of many people who have gone miss- ing over the years. There is only SUNDAY SHOPPING moved a step nearer in North Van District when council voted to hold a ref- erendum on the question during the November municipal election. Voters were to be asked whether they favored all stores opening Sunday or only home building cen- tres, UNPRECEDENTED opposition by Capilano College faculty members forced the college board to rethink a plan for establishing a new mid-management structure of 10 ‘‘administrative directors’’ in- terposed between teachers and top management. ABOLITION of the rentalsman was called for by North Van- Seymour Socreds in a resolution to be presented to the party’s annual convention. Park one third of the park that is useful, the rest is jangle. Let's clean it up and make it a park we can really be proud of. This being Expo 86, | thought for sure something would be done. J.H. Colley West Vancouver