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Show Joe Weston Says Change is Not Always Progress "Automation is not necessarily a good thing and change is not always progress," Joseph Weston, Wes-ton, Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, told a meeting of the Saturday Night-ers Night-ers Club at Mt. Pleasant Thursday Thurs-day night. - "The ultimate goal of automation automa-tion would be the complete elimination elim-ination of the necessity for human hu-man labor, and there are many who will dispute whether such a thing would be good for humanity hu-manity or not. "It is only in the last century that most civilized nations have freed themselves from shackles of human slavery with teaching themselves that human labor has dignity. Now comes automation, to make human labor unnecessary. unneces-sary. "I believe that automation of commercial and manufacturing processes should be promoted slowly, and with due care to the welfare of all workers whom the new machinery displaces. We must remember that human values come first. I believe that local, state and county governments govern-ments are fully justified in their slowing down or even in prohibiting pro-hibiting the automation of business busi-ness or factories where undue hardship will accrue to those thrown out of work, or undue stress come to bear upon a community's com-munity's economic life, by such automation. "Somewhere along this line of constant change we must draw a line, and say that 'here we will stabilize development for a time so that human beings can catch their breath and learn to live and adjust to the new conditions before we push them headlong into the entirely new set of conditions," con-ditions," he concluded. |
