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Hie Promise of Ob, My Achin' Back! i . "SO UPSET BY.'CHANGE OP UPT* I SCREAMED AT MY HUSBANDr A jfcert Hm» ago the word automation was virtually unknown. T>un almost overnight, it beearne a major topic of argument and discussion. In v«ie« quarters there is a fear that continued de* Wihjpatent of electronic devices which make possible increased Koductioa with damans* taker may produce widespread unem- mj. ■x ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■ ■ fVLi , ..... , . «sqii^hw '■*;} -.v ■; ■ ... Automation is svoiutioMr itahhqh . i : . ' i .. ■ ■ ngM§m&*4 , ■ .. ' . V ; : V '• ' t . . " ■ ' .. ' '' - ' . : A chart prepare* by the Wilkie Foundation SA. the average Worker's real intone was « . 10 cents in out-put soaring. A century a#o the work week was 70 hours, as against 40 today—again mechanization wa3 responsible. And in thst century the working population increased almost as fast as the total population—even though child labor was abolished, and people live longer and retire earlier. Mechanization made jobs of destroying fbaaR* II' ■ * to....., ' Bp a •T History supplies the K; . Mil® Ll . UrtiMil *1 ^ .»* I lJ»|jcatl. . ■ .1 ... * ■rto «■*» ».«*. rwww... ■■ . - ’v; r<-; .MSB. _____
The Detroit News-Herald (Detroit, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1955,
newspaper,
June 30, 1955;
Detroit, Texas.
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth850676/m1/4/:
accessed July 17, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting Red River County Public Library.