Show THE OGDEN (UTAH) 4A TUESDAY' EVENING STANDARD-EXAMINE- R MAY 31 1933 Promises a Great New Era Wear Guaranteed Some Inroads Are Expected but No Threat of Mass Unemployment Seen in Approach o f Automation Age CARPETS Famous Brands MOHAWK McGEE MASLAND No Down Payment -- $10 Par Month Will ’ Do Most Living Rooms — JOHNSON PEnmrj iNC 3701 Wash ph By STERLING F GREEN NEW YORK (AP) — On the basis of evidence now on hand it would be hard tos prove that automation — machines doing the jjcbs men have done — holds an immediate threat o' mass unem:c ployment ' - Eventhe CIO Unitea Auto Workers now t threatening to strike for a guaranteed -- -- 12 - genual wage was unable on to come up with' instances of sub stantial layoffs which could be “giant brains” — the AFL Office International Union and blamed on increased use of mat Workers the CIO Insurance Workers — chines in industry have made no study of automaUAW research director Natl tion’s impact on employment No Wholesale Layoffs Weinberg said in Detroit: “We don’t have any cases But Officers of both unions howI can tell you now they would ever think that while there may be exceptions rather than the be inroads on employment there (Editor's note: Automation holds the promise of a great new era in American industry and business It also implies a tremendous threat to the jobs of thousands of workers in factories and offices Here’s what labor leaders workers employers economists and government experts think will be its overall effects on employ- in their competitive battle with of the movement regardless of mation from industry quarters ccal and gas management motives regardless of size of company the end reimhead-on But that runs into and more about new and opof automation is to accomposition with Reuther’s conten- sult more proved machinery work with fewer pen-piplish tion automation should be But even unions do not speak slowedthat down in time of declining with one voice on the issue Con- markets Will Be Stranded sider some of the several dilemScholars convinced that autoEven where output mas faced by the CIO’s Union of mation is just hitting its stride makes up the expanded difference some Electrical Workers are trying to foretell 'how fast workers will be stranded Autowon’t be any wholesale layoffs rule” General at IUE’s members and far it will range In 1950 mation frequently requires the CIO The Union International Weinberg thinks the shock of of Electrical Workers on the oth- ment) Mills Inc make the new auto-fa- b mathematician Norbert Wiener building of a new plant on a new utomation is cushioned some- er hand claim a machine similar to the robots wrote a book “The Human Use lccation A pool of idle workers is n which partially assemble tele- of Human Beings” which includ- left behind what by the : normal turnover of plant shutdown in Sandusky of light reports no office vision sets speed at Admiral’s Sandusky ed these gloomy lines: Ohio was of the direct result jobs” Others will find jobs have been lost as a result Ohio plant The autofab threatautomation “It is perfectly dear that this jobless simply becausethemselves automation After The members of two unions of the machines taking over cleri- ens the have jobs of other IUE mem- will produce an unemployment not the qualification tothey who compete with the electronic was introduced say union spokes- cal chores run the bers in radio and electronic situation in comparison with new men the employer was able to “We won’t have to hire as many equipment which the depression of the merge two plants into one would “It 1960 census as plants the for silly to pretend people allocal An IUE in Schenectady ’30s will seem just a pleasant that there willbe not IUE expects more trouble we would without the machines” be many jobs though one major TV manufac- a spokesman says "But we’ll still scolded management at the Gen- joke” which automation will abolish ” In January five years later wTOte- George B Baldwin and turer has stepped up production need more than we did in 1950 eral Electric Co because GE and payrolls sharply since going because there’ll be 25 million lost a big contract to Thompson 'Wiener told the Chicago George P Sehults of the MassaProducts Inc of Cleveland The he was "definitely less chusetts Institute of Technology automatic last year more people to count” that GE had fearful” though still concerned In an industry where giant “Whether or not it creates diDr Cuthbert C Hurd in charge union complained lagged in technology with the re- over how the shift would be rectly or indirectly as electronic brains not only send of electronic processing machines many jobs sult Cleveland workers got em- made He was quoted: our premium notices but figure at IBM says: as it wipes out no one can know “I would say that the time New Influence agents’ commissions Vice Presi“There will be dislocation of ployment instead of Schenectady when the thing could come with dent Jim Brisbane of the CIO In- wcrkers but more often it will workers But IUE has taken its stand a sudden crash' without” anyone ' “This much seems certain surance Workers believes there amount to a relocation of work There is bound to be a new inCIO Chief Welter Reuther being aware is now i‘l will be some unemployment but ers within the seme past” orgemiefluence at work which will wh heads the United ho Auto “not too bad’’ Foresee a Cataclysm tion They’ll be moving to jobs mobile Workers It nestrengthen the arguments of peois business Much insurance opened which better use of Few experts today foresee a ple who feel that last its month for wage earners done by direct contact wiht poli- humans represent gotiations than work that can be 40000 workers in General Mo- cataclysm John Diebold editor ought not to bear the main brunt a across mail desk cyholders by done by machines” of the magazine “Automatic Con- of the change” tors a asked and for both guaror over a counter Hurd points out moreover anteed annual trol” and author of “Automag aware of Industry is wage and a “But in home offices of the big that many to want tion: The Advent of the Auto- the problem andacutely employers Manconcerned insurance companies today” says adopt automation because in the plan matic says: conferences Factory” have agement been Brisbane “international business case of some of the giant com- Must Go Automatic “The on held how to ease truly qualrevolutionary the dividends impact machines figure the it will enable them to Many unionists agree there are ities of this new movement are The business press - is full of and a girl just out of high school puters own industries information where the employer found in the new markets it is articles giving advice about their gain can run them” V businesses they’ve never been must go automatic or go broke opening and the industries that Some firms operate retraining Takes a Calm View able to get before When that in- A reduced payroll is better than are expanding-with-itat company expense to programs The worker’s chance of having upgrade workers Others have J Howard Hicks of the AFL formation is at hand it may none at all Post At Providence R I in an a brush with automation is much timed their automation to coinice workers takes a calm view mean more jobs instead of fewer Relief for Acid Stomach off autoare area reasons There where textile mills have higher in some industries than in cide with expansion programs or other he suggests Many employers Millions' of Americans carry a have installed automatic equip- mation is attractive to employ- been folding up with dismaying others Richard L Meier Univer- let payrolls dwindle to cushion handy roll of Turns as religious- ment in hordes of labor savings ers Machines are easier to man- regularity a member of the CIO sity of Chicago scientist drafted to change by not replacing those age than people They don’t chew Textile Workers Union had a this list of industries he deems who quit retire or die ly as they carry their driver’s that didn’t materialize emlicense and keys Because you gum take long lunch hours get word of approval for an employer ripest: “To be beneficial from an Delivers a Blast he Bakeries beverages confection- never know when heartburn ployer’s viewpoint” says pregnant or show up Monday who had just laid off 11 workers: Government has been curious- “He put in new equipment and ery rayon knit goods paper-!i- v and acid indigestion will strike “automation must be used in a mornings with a hangover And -lmi tn Turns neutralize excess stomach tremendously large office I’ve they don’t break arms and legs reorganized his shipping room board containers printing chem- - Jo days has jerked to attention acid almost before it starts No had employers tell me they were through carelessness or demand He only needed nine people there icals petroleum refining glass There has been no word on instead of 20 But he consulted products cement farm machinpensions water no mixing needed Be sold a bill of goods when they automation the President’s There’s evidence that the word with us first and promised the ery miscellaneous machinery Council of from prepared— always carry Turns! installed the machines Economic Advisers laid-ofmore f automation is workers first chance at communications and some types “I’m sure devices will be per- than the fact as far asfrightening there was none in President Eisnew jobs in his plant w'ith no loss of retailing and bank enhower’s economic message in fected which will liave a notice- file workers are concerned of seniority He’s a good em- Highly Automatic able effect on employment But January Opinion Research Corp surveyed ployer He’ll stay in business” Then several weeks ago Secthese industries some they won’t wipe out entire office factory employes across the naJohn L Lewis has never op- of Together which of Commerce Sinclair autoare forces” already retary highly tion last year and found that 70 posed mechanization of the soft matic Weeks The Census Bureau in Washembrace delivered his blast at “misonly eight per per cent of those interviewed coal industry Today a modern ington with two huge Univacs thought automation would "hurt mine like the Jenkins Ky work- cent of the nation’s workers If leading propaganda” concerning plowing through statistics at the more people than it would help ings of Pittsburgh Consolidation all were to cut employment in the threat At almost the same Coal Co needs only two mem- half in the next 20 years Meier time Secretary of Labor James by eliminating jobs” the worker dislocation P Mitchell went to Congress for When the words “new and im- bers of Lewis’ United Mine Work- estimates would be funds to pay five proposed new relatively small proved machinery” were substi- ers to turn out as much coal as aides in his office charged with that automation “does Noting tuted for the word “automation” three men dug in 1949 not come be- skills of the work force” Ruether cheap” only 46 per cent thought it would Would Be Sicker lieves automation will be a Mitchell testified: do more harm than good ' Coal operators say their ailing "We believe there is going to phenomenon cutting Public Relations Men — would be be even in the next 10 years perhaps in sicker the industry employment The survey results got plenty and mine unemployment higher major companies but throwing considerable displacement of of attention from industry’s pub- — if they were still using the pick small businesses into real trouble workers due to technological adThe simplest automatic control vances —this thing we call autolic relations men From now on and shovel instead of machines systems — which simply give no- mation tice when a process goes wrong — “There has got to be attention can be bought for a few hundred paid I think to what you are dollars Panellit in Chicago for going to do with the people who e are displaced by machines and example will build a v computer big enough for what avenues of livelihood are many plant needs right into your going to be opened to them “I do not think It is a problem control panel for $2000 or $3000 And remember: An investment which the federal government of $7500 or $15000 is soon ab- can sit by and just let drift Mr Eisenhower has stated his sorbed if It means not paying out PROSPECTOR OVERNIGHT view taking middle ground bethe same amount in wages SERVICE So the argument goes around tween Weeks and MitchelL Quesof the ultimate scale tioned at a news conference he Regardless NOW AVAILABLE BETWEEN said he thought the danger was often exaggerated exactly the same thing had been going on for 150 years and exactly the same fears had been expressed all along - But he declared the governThe lake Shore Meter Ceech LUet with tervice ment would keep watch and if now provide convenient connecting unforeseen danger appeared Rio Grande' Prospector— overnight every night Denver end might possibly create a commisstreamliner between Salt loLe City sion to study the impact There’s a chance the 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