INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY
DISPLACING MAN POWER. EVIDENCE BEFORE COMMISSION (Received 6, 8.25 a.m.) Sydney, December 6. Before the Child Endowment Commission, evidence was given by representatives of the Trades and Labour Council that the predominant feeling among young mep and women was to avoid marriage because the wages received made it impossible to provide a home and maintain the same standard of comfort as enjoyed while single. Instances were cited to show how modern machinery was increasing production and replacing men. It was stated that an oxycutter displaced three to ten boilermakers and their mates; a Jacques pinching table could do the work of ten men; spray painting machines lor motor bodies had displaced 76 painters, and a steam shovel tended bv 12 men d'd the work of 200 men. Every pneumatic tool displaced from srx to 12 men.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 6 December 1927, Page 5
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138INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 6 December 1927, Page 5
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