VICTIMS OF AUTOMATION
Retraining In America (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 16. Automation was creating serious unemployment problems throughout the United States, with the result that state governments and trade unions were organising retraining classes for people who lost their jobs, the president of the Federation of Labour (Mr T. E. Skinner) said in Auckland today after a three-month visit to Europe, Britain and the United States, where he attended trade union conferences and studied labour relations.
“Unions are very alive to the effects of automation and working hard to see that who lost their jobs, the presiceive adequate compensation,” Mr Skinner said. Automation was also starting to show its effects io Britain and other countries throughout the world, Mr Skinner said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30831, 17 August 1965, Page 3
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