The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1933, Page 2

SEN amc SOI ITUUUUU UAE MEA HHtATLGe® ’ ae = = eE= == => — = = = e= S= = = = == ESN UNL LN ea Must the machine stand as . the symbol of the workingman'’s ~~ ‘ YY) despair?... Technocracy warns Ry} - of millions more without jobs, but »,,* Senator Wagner sees a way out 3 ‘ Ae A By FLORA G. ORR F, by the year 1945, 40 men with machines, working eight hours a day six days per week, can produce as much as 100 men accomplished in the same length of time in 1915, where is dear old Prosperity Cornet and Increased Purchasing Power? This isn’t a riddle with a catch in it. Neither is it just a simple little math- ematical problem, it seems. For labor leaders, engineers, employers, statis- ticians and statesmen areworrying their brains over this question night and day. Theoretical science also ‘steps in at this point n and soothingly remarks that scientific research and the development of machines should not be made the symbol of the workingman’s despair. Because, states the savant, the fruits of research properly distributed will bring happiness to all mankind in the end. “It is wealth, not poverty, which is depress- ing and crushing the United States,” declares another wing of the progressive school of thought. ““The community must organize to con- trol the machine age or it will consume us in one of the most senseless holocausts of history.” Many persons are studying with interest— and many are busy attacking—the findings of that group of engineers in New York, directed by Howard Scott, which has labeled itselt ~* -oMMCEUUUSSOO0 C000 CEN EAD 0A AEA ® “The community must organize to contrel machine age or it will consume us in one , “Technocracy,” and which has just about con- of the most less holocausts of history,” ° cluded that we must organize on a new social and economic basis, with “unit energy” as our A ‘ 5 " pene = re eg that — mae Sapna 4 : x nutes. w J whole, during trained to y yardstick instead of the price system. S new businesses to begin, which, as their wheels year, used up 14 per cent of all that shay ‘cau seh Thoms one.Seees-et anaploomaeel the last begin to turn, call for new workers to keep they bad heretofore accumulated and laid aside another, if necessity arises. She ally this de- ’ things going. aon a ee In construction work, two and one-half mil- tional training.’ fact that we must fe secure, comfortable lion are normally employed. Now at least Turning from: the notions of good i and decent for the average or forgotten man in 55 per cent of these are out of work. For Py ag oe agenge tig Fn we come to have overproduction and chaos. this country. every Collar paid out to workers in this line in Stewart, former chief statistician of the Bureau This group of technologists has predicted “Why can't we do that? We have the - 1929, only 25 cents is going out today. This of Labor Statistics, however, sige presented that within two more years, if we drift along as wealth, the resources, and the consumers. We. means at least a 50 per cent reduction in wages with a new viewpoint as to what is fandamen- we have been going, we shall have 20,000,000 ; Essie) rs unemployed, instead of the estimated 12,000. Senate Reber F. Wane, leader iner = important, seadjutments in our maar PBIces. say the engineers, rule the world with the necessity of making profits, and since profits are dependent upon quantity of goods brought into existence. it is easy to see 1 look i Give treit time Sie fo ‘ i ; no @ new 1 unless we abandon our present economic sys- social and economic system. iftis i 3 As proof of the fact that under our drifting tem we iy nang pry ng policies of the past three years we have been 3 tor Robert mer of New York, lead- ‘ 5 getting nowhere : reviewed ; er pe esti *eliet legislation, is con- feel the shock of the neat depression, big or com- a few statistics. perminniccas 2 vinced, however, tbat aber is no need to organ- ag grep a ical when 3 se yi de Ths cnt tof ang pet fms JN 192, the wr st 890000 ba enough, if we will but solve the problem of dis- and asylums, says Wagner, that it seems strange wwineers. ia facoieies, cach. Granden a a87 ‘bution of wealth. there should be any opposition to them. Like- envelope from a payroll of 12 billion dollary 2 Senator Wagner has several features in his bir gad the removal of the aged from the ranks per year, 5 ars so accomnbh the cad. Tha i0shoe of industrial workers will leave more work In 1933 40 per cent of these factory work- fs ici a uy aaa gp a ig available for those of active years. ers, or about 4,000,000, have no jobs. The rs ae Gaioonn suaienmien sod anaes te “I was a young senator,in the New York 60 per cent still’ working were being paid from i see hi we but van ‘lesialature when I iret advanced my ideas for an annual payroll of oaly about four and one- f his plan, he idee these oe a workman's compensation law,” says the sen- half billion dollars. =“ ep sy ator. “Industries of the state were at Girt op- This means that for evdry dollar paid out 2 gag org ent i bots al posed. They called me a dangerous radical. in 1929, only 40 cents is being distributed to- polis 7 gy wee aeyael school! They did not appreciate that such a law made day among the 60 per cent still with jobs. Even \ Gu ae or 18 at oe | smemaplareent better workers and would be of advantage to with the slight improvements noted last fall, pray g age peniontt ese are other = them, = : : total factory wages in October, 1932, were still parts of his set-up which he considers very im- “Tt is interesting to review our experience 27.8 per cent lower than in October, 1931, Portant. with this law in New York State. Employers From July, 1931, to July, 1932, the fam i have installed safety appliances right and left, ilies aided by charity doubled in number. De- E are 2,000, ren at work industrial accidents have been tremendously re- posits in savings banks and- postal. accounts today,” he states. “The big bulk of duced, and of course, the better safety record » dropped three and ‘one-half billion dollars ie them are 16 afd 17, but one-third are less than business man has over a period of years, so far one year. There was a net closing of siz and 16, and 235,000 are between 10 and 13— as accidents to his workers are concerned, the one-fourth million savings accounts between the mere infants. Their work is displacing that of lower his premium payments year by year. dates of June 30, 1931, and June 30, 1932, the adult family provider and is, in every sense, The Red Cross alone furnished flour relie! a social and economic loss. SQ comes an ede shes ocho to 3,583,831 separate families up to Sept. 3, = ‘Untrained as these kids will be a few years insurance also pre 1932, after Congress had granted donations of hence, and uneducated, they will be the first to sumes that the better the record for continuous excess. wheat stocks held by Federal Farm = (Copyright, 1933, by KveryWeek Magasine—Printed tn U. : | = ro Mn SL UU ULL Con Te vn ‘ PORTE Me een OY en Pee UUM TTT TTY : . : : | nn, TT = a STL LI I