MACHINERY AND UNEMPLOYMENT
The following from the London “Observer” of August 16th, 1829, should be of use to the Unemployment Commission. It would be interesting to know how many people machinery, including railways, steamships, etc., have i>ut out of work since 1829:—
Mr Gurney's Steam Carriage.—Mr Gurney's steam carnage arrived on Monday evening at Cranfordbridge inn, after an experimental tour of a week to Bath, the success of which exceeded whatever could have been anticipated by the most sanguine friends of the invention. The speed, at times, was equal to sixteen miles per hour. Near Melksham the carriage was attacked by a mob of working people, who, believing that machinery is the cause of their suffering, said the carriage was come to take the bread out of their mouths. The carriage might have been destroyed had not the respectable inhabitants interfered. It was thought prudent to draw it the remainder of the way to Bath by horses.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 162, 28 June 1930, Page 12
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