MACHINERY AND UNEMPLOYMENT
to i hi: F.Linni: or the i'ih.-i, Sir,—Undoubtedly the machine is going to beat civilisation if drastic steps arc not taken at once to check it. As a suggestion, why not tax all "trade" machinery. The number of persons put. out of employment by any machine to be ascertained and the amount of the tax to be equivalent to their wages, less a certain amount for interest, depreciation, and other "overhead," and the tax applied to unemployment relief. Of course machinery manufacturers would be up in arms at once, but they could be compensated out of the tax, and their employees would benefit under unemployment schemes, until such time as all labour could be absorbed, which would not be lone. Something of this sort, is surely preferable to the riots visualised by Sir G. G. Scott. R.A. I am, of course, referring to Ihe accounts of his address to the Royal Institute of British Architects.—Yours, etc.. G.A/M. December 27. 1933.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21049, 28 December 1933, Page 5
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