MILLIONS WORKLESS
DUE TO MASS PRODUCTION
CONTROL ADVOCATED
• • .WASHINGTON, 9th May. Addressing the International Chamber of Commerce Conference, Dean W B. Donhani, of Harvard University', stated that western civilisation was challenged by the unemployment of millions of men due to a failure to control the effects of machinery and mass production. *
"Methods of controlling these in consequence must be worked out in the immediate future," he said. "The problem of millions of men out of w6rk ia all the great countries of the.world, vi some countries for a long period of years, is one which must be w6rked out i± there is to be a solution in the immediate future. We must realise we aro facing in this country some form of the dole system, for we cannot allow millions of our neighbours to starve. Ins extent of the unemployment problem is already beyond the capacity of private charity." , •■ '•
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 109, 11 May 1931, Page 9
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149MILLIONS WORKLESS Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 109, 11 May 1931, Page 9
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