Dear Editor: In the Sept. 27 issue of the NEWS David Breckner wrote a response to my letter where he expressed con- fusion over the Ipgic used in my example * justifying minimum wage laws.

He asserted that in my example the free market wage level would be $2.90 an hour and not $2.00 an hour as I stated. He came to this conclusion because he said it would still be profitable to hire the ten employees at the higher wage. Though this is correct, the point he misses is that it would be even more profitable to lay off the last | worker because in my example, he is only pulling in

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Why not stop acid rain at its source? Why deal with its effects afterwards? Remember the old adage: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. It applies to air pollution too!

Recent experiments in Western Europe have shown that, when small amounts of certain salts are blown into the flame area in industrial furnaces, they have an amazing effect on the fur- nace’s waste products. Soot is largely eliminated; fly ash is reduced. Sulphur emissions fall off and energy is saved because the fuel is

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By laying him off the employer is saving 90¢ an hour and in a free market he is sure to do that. That leaves one man in _ the economy unemployed at which point he will offer his services for less because he needs a job to survive. This will trigger the other workers into competitive - un- dercutting in a struggle to keep their jobs until all their wages get competed down to $2.00 an hour which is the point where it is profitable to hire the last worker.

This is the wage level where the supply of workers equals demand for workers. The only -way to avoid this

burned more completely than it would otherwise be. In Ontario we are treating our northern lakes with lime in an attempt to neutralize .the effects of acid rain. Why do this when by using a relatively small qunatity of fertilizer-like material we can cut off the offending pollutants at the moment and place of their origin?

Use these manmade “inhibitors” in the right way and the unwelcome

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As for Breckner’s point that government §in- tervention itself has a cost, may I. remind Breckner of why we seek to protect wages and prevent unem- ployment in the first place. In times of recession, such as we are now experiencing, wages in a free market are sure to fall, so those at the lower end of the scale, without protection, will be

cost of building high smoke stacks and massive separators — expensive plant which isn't ail that effective anyway.

The use of ammonia based and other salts.to knock down pollutants at their source is a new develop- ment, admittedly. But the Danes, for example, have proved that it works in oil burning furnaces, on a large scale. It also works with coal. We are turning, in- creasingly, to the high sulphur oils and lower grade coals because these fuels are

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forced into conditions of abject poverty. These same people are in no way responsible for the recession or depression but in a free market they are forced to bear the brunt of it by having to work at inhumane wage levels.

It is this injustice that minimum wage laws and job subsidization seek to prevent. This solution would involve a cost to us all but it is a necessary cost in order to have a humane society. Yes, Mr. Breckner, humanity has a cost, but in my opinion it is money well spent.

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