CAUSE OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
INCREASED MECHANICAL POWER. A WORLD-WIDE PROBLEM. (Bj Telegraph— Special to "Star.") CIIRISTCHURCH, this day. '"What is the cause of unemployment all the world over but the increase in mechanical power, which is the outstanding feature of our age ?" asked Professor Macmillan Brown last evening, in a lecture. Where a machine did the work, a man or two had to be put off, and it needed a generation for labour to adjust itself to the changed conditions. The United States was supposed to be one of the most favoured countries in the world for employees, and yet there were four million people unemployed. It was the same a century ago ,after the Napopeonie wars. Then workmen rose and smashed the machines. A similar occurrence would not happen in this generation, but relief would not come until there was time for a logical readjustment to changed industrial conditions.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 5
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CAUSE OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 5
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