COTTON-PICKING
INVENTION IN U.S.A.
MEMPHIS (Tennessee), August 24,
John and Mack Rust, inventors of a mechanical Cotton-picker which it is believed will produce the greatest amount of technological unemployment ever resulting from a one-purpose invention, have announced the formation, of the Rust Foundation.
They personally will receive only ten times the wage received by the lowest-paid employee in the factory making the machines. Their profits will go to the trust and to the rehabilitation of unemployed share croppers and farm labourers of the cottongrowing States in an effort to make the picker a "blessing instead of * curse to displaced labour."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 9
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100COTTON-PICKING Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 9
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