...out, it is always definitely stated in the Labour Gazette that the index number is designed to show the average increase in the cost of maintaining unchanged the pre-war standard of living in working class families. For this purpose it is necessary that the weights used (to which the percentage...

...prices of food, but also rent, clothing, fuel and light, and miscellaneous items. The index numbers are designed to indicate the average increase in the cost of maintaining unchanged the average pre-war standard of living of the working classes. On the 1st January, the food index number...

...rapidly altering war and post-war years. Its original purpose, as officially stated, TS-&S to show the "average increase in the cost of maintaining unchanged...pre-war standard of living of working-class families." The employers, on the other hand, assembled as recently as the end of January at the quarterly meeting...

...described, the Ministry of Labor index is a retail-price indicator, originally designed to measure the average increase in the cost of maintaining unchanged the prewar standard of living of working-class (wage-earning) families. The first basis of measurement included only articles of food, as determined...

...connection it is important to note that the original purpose of the index as a guide to wages was to show the average increase in the cost of maintaining unchanged...pre-war standard of living of working-class families. The question is : Should this standard remain unchanged or should actual improvement be maintained?...

...of living is stated in the official returns of the Labour Gazette to have been calculated to ' show the average increase in the cost of maintaining unchanged...pre-war standard of living of working-class families — ie the standard actually prevailing in working-class families before the war, irrespective of whether...

...living index, as is clearly stated in the Ministry of Labour's announcement of it, is intended to show the " average increase in the cost of maintaining...pre-war standard of living of working-class families." An " unchanged standard " means here an unchanged dietary and allocation of expenditure ; that is to...

...connection it is important to note that the original purpose of the index as a guide to wages was to show the average increase in the cost of maintaining unchanged...pre-war standard of living of working-class families. The question is: Should this standard remain unchanged or should actual improvement be maintained?...

...one another. The cost of living index was designed to produce a figure showing the average percentage increase in the cost of maintaining unchanged the...pre-war standard of living of working-class families (irrespective of its adequacy). It is to be surmised that increases in the prices of some of the commodities...

...the starting-point to which all later prices are related. The index is designed to measure each month the average increase in the cost of maintaining unchanged the pre-war standard of working-class families. Originally the index referred to Great Britain and Ireland, but with the establishment...