Council on Wage and Price Stability Message to the Congress Transmitting a Report.

To the Congress of the United States:

In accordance with Section 5 of the Council on Wage and Price Stability Act, as amended, I hereby transmit to the Congress the eighteenth quarterly report of the Council on Wage and Price Stability. The report contains a description of the Council's activities during the first quarter of 1979 in monitoring both prices and wages in the private sector and various Federal government activities that may lead to higher costs and prices without creating commensurate benefits. It discusses Council reports, analyses, and filings before Federal regulatory agencies. It also describes the Council's activities of monitoring wages and prices as part of the anti-inflation program.

The Council on Wage and Price Stability will continue to play an important role in supplementing fiscal and monetary policies by calling public attention to wage and price developments or actions by the government that could be of concern to American consumers.

JIMMY CARTER

The White House,

September 17, 1979.