AUTOMATION EFFECTS
Responsibility Of
Government
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON. June 5. Sir Anthony Eden said in the House of Commons today that while Britain must accept labour changes brought about by automation, the Government certainly had some responsibility for retraining men for other jobs—and soon.
Labour members had asserted that the joint impact of the Government’s economic policy and automation was causing social problems and great public anxiety. The Prime Minister said the Government’s policy was to safeguard full employment by improving Britain’s trade position and strengthening her financial reserves.
Sir Anthony Eden said: “As successive government have recognised, full employment does not mean that every individual has his particular job for so long as he wishes to stay in it. “Changes in our pattern of employment are a necessary condition of full employment as a whole.” Mr George Brown (Labour) said there seemed to be no provision to help move men transferred from one job to another. Sir Anthony Eden said the Government would do all it could to ease the transfer of the individual worker.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27988, 7 June 1956, Page 13
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