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Show MACHINE-MADE IDLENESS HIT WASHINGTON. July 1 (JPA picture ef the American acene 30 year hence. In which atimng new device dwarf recent invention, led President Roosevelt today to recommend rec-ommend "continuing aurveying agenciea" to keep national policlea abreaat of machine advance. The national resource committee, aided by scientist and research ex-perls, ex-perls, spread out th remit of It scrutiny of far-reaching developments, develop-ments, hailed the electric eye as "the greateet Invention of the twentieth twen-tieth century" and recommended long-time study. "This report hold out th hop that w can anticipate some of the affect of major Invention," th president said, "and make plan to meet new situation that will arise a these invention com into widespread wide-spread use." Heavy Price Commenting on th ffect on labor la-bor of industrial change caused by electrical and mechanical developments develop-ments he oh served: "Whil It la certain that much of th unemployment caused by the march of technical advance is absorbed ab-sorbed by new occupation born of new industries, it I equally true that in th meantime labor may pay a very heavy price through the re-adjuatmsnt re-adjuatmsnt and adaptation nece-aary nece-aary en th part of worker whose job are affected by change." Study of these changea and advances, ad-vances, he eaid. is "on of our moat Important American planning problems." prob-lems." T remise AH Wrong John W. O'Leary. Chicago official offi-cial of th United Statea chamber of commerce, declared "the premise of the report la all wrong." "Fact ahowa that employment ha increased rapidly during the last 100 yaara," he aaid. "Aa new ma-chlnea ma-chlnea have been developed more persona have been given Job." Th committee listed among "a few very Important inventions that may soon be widely used, with resultant re-sultant social influence of significance": signifi-cance": The mechanical cotton picker, air conditioning equipment, plastic, th photoelectric cell, artificial cotton cot-ton and woolen-like fabric made from cellulose, synthetic rubber, prefabricated pre-fabricated houses, television and facsimile transmission, automobile trailers, gasoline produced from coal, steep flight aircraft and "tray agriculture" (producing food under artificial condition). |