COTTON PICKER
MECHANICAL DEVICE INVENTORS' CONCESSION NEW YORK, Aiicust 25 The inventors of a mechanical cotton picker, which it is believed will produce a very great amount of technological unemployment—Messrs. John and Mack Rust, of Memphis, Tennessee —announce the formation of a Rust foundation. They personally will receive only 10 times the wages received by the lowest-paid employee in the factory where the machines arc made, and their profits will go to the trust to aid in the rehabilitation of the unemployed share croppers and farm labourers in the cotton-growing States. This marks tho inventors' effort to make tho picker a blessing instead of a curse to displaced workers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23127, 27 August 1938, Page 13
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109COTTON PICKER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23127, 27 August 1938, Page 13
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