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What about the overall effects of automation? In the past 15 years, said Fairless, the U.S. population has jumped 22%, while the number of jobs has grown by 35%. "And in the field of manufacturing itself-where automation has advanced most rapidly-employment has gone up 73% ... The record clearly shows that this rapid increase in employment has occurred chiefly because of mechanization, not in spite of it. The building of machines themselves-plus their installation, maintenance and the construction of new factories to house them-has opened up thousands of job opportunities that never existed before ... As mechanization...
...taken the U.S. a long time to realize the nature of this problem. In the early days of the New Deal, Paul Appleby, then an Agriculture Department official* and a pundit among public administrators, said: "A man in the employ of the Government had just as much right to be a member of the Communist Party as he has to be a member of the Democratic or Republican Party." This attitude, modified and veiled, still persists. At the opposite extreme is the view that since Government employment is a privilege and not a right any employee may be fired...
...private employer, particularly one largely engaged in supplying manufactured products to the Government, to its armed forces, and to retailers for distribution through hospitals and doctors to the public at large, should not be required by state action through its courts to retain in or restore to employment a person who would not be entitled to state employment and who is known to have dedicated herself to the service of a foreign power . . . The employer had not only the right to protect itself and its customers against the clear and present danger of continuing a Communist Party member...
...directors to back down; a majority of the hospital's other staff members joined in protest. Local organizations passed pro-Hodge resolutions. Seven local Protestant churchmen sent the directors an open letter: "[Hodge] has been judged, punished and returned to us . . . Shall we deny him any occasion to employ his special talent for constructive enterprise...
Tonight's game will match two of New England's strongest defensive teams. The varsity, which held a powerful Pennsylvania squad to 54 points, will employ a shifting man to man defense. Amherst, using a zone in all ten of its games this season, ranks first in the country defensively among small colleges...