MACHINE BRINGS NEW EVILS; SOCIETY PAYS COSTLY PRICE
MACHINE BRINGS NEW EVILS; SOCIETY PAYS COSTLY PRICE HARTFORD, Conn.—The Hartford Courant is not enthusiastic over automatic machinery, mass production and mergers that have wrought a silent...
...Mergers in various lines and the spread of chain stores Increase the workless...
...Is there not, after all, something to be said for the more leisurely processes of an earlier day...
...Does not this situation make it worth while to consider whether we are really on the right economic track...
...t how these conditions will right themselves nobody seems to know, although various remedies have been suggested...
...Ju...
...In a sensational editorial on Ihe social effect of the new system the editor points out that this revolution Is bringing a train of evils that include unemployment, destruction of craftsmanship, revolutionary sentiment and all sorts of paternalistic schemes to care for the unemployed...
...May it not come about that we arc paying a too high price for our much vaunted efficiency...
...SOCIETY PAYS COSTLY PRICE HARTFORD, Conn.—The Hartford Courant is not enthusiastic over automatic machinery, mass production and mergers that have wrought a silent revolution...
...Certain it is that If people can not find work and can not...
...earn enough to support themselves and their dependents, we shall hear more and more of paternalistic, schemes to take care of them...
...So much work is being done by the machine that labor finds It difficult to secure employment, says the editor...
...Will we really gain anything if we bring about, a situation where, Industry and society find themselves heavily taxed to support those who are turned nut at 40 and 45 because their productive capacity has diminished...
...This daily newspaper is one of the oldest in America and is among the nation's ultra conservative publications...
Vol. 1 • July 1930 • No. 32
