MACHINERY AND UNEMPLOYMENT
TO THB EDITOR Of THB PRESS. Sir,—l wish to inform F. G. Thomas that his advice to myself to take note of the fact brought to us by cable that employment in America is not keeping pace with the return to prosperity is quite superfluous, as the same phenomenon is happening everywhere. But, why blame machinery for this, when in America there is everywhere a state of under-consump-tion? Machinery is not to blame for this, but rather our economic system, which does not even allow us to enjoy the product of our labour. If lack of machinery caused employment, then in India and China there should be no unemployment, while the masses there are totally workless, destitute, and starving. F. G. Thomas lacks clear reasoning and logic. When machinery will be used to supply human needs instead of feeding selfish greed, in such social state unemployment will be an impossibility.— Yours, etc., U. COLONNA. November 12, 1930.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21939, 13 November 1936, Page 17
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