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...parks, and government officials reported with relief that the unemployment rate had dropped, from 3.9% to 3.1%, for the first time in more than six months. Their jubilation was short-lived. In a rite of spring such as Britain has not witnessed since the Depression, more than 5,000 jobless workers converged on London to protest their plight, touching off an ugly, rock-throwing battle at the very door of Parliament...
Automation is irrevocably changing the shape of the American economy and the work-pattern of the American people. With the rapid development of self-regulating machines, unskilled, semi-skilled and white collar workers have in turn been left jobless. Since the mid-fifties unemployment has tended to rise in times of prosperity as well as recession...
...benefit of a prosperous majority implies moral acceptance of the breadline as a way of life (for others). To advocate a margin of unemployment as if it were static or intermittently fluctuating is to ignore the dynamics of technological unemployment in America. Moreover, it is not only the jobless who suffer. People in mills and factories and offices throughout the country today live in fear that their seniority may soon be insufficient to save their jobs when the next lay-off comes...
...Joint Economic Committee that "more manpower had been lost in the past year of unemployment than in 35 years of strikes." Wirtz added that if unemployment statistics properly embraced young people trying to get into the work force, the poorly educated, the semi-skilled and the non-white, the jobless rate could be placed as high as 12 percent...
...exactly one company. This angered both the "army" and the demobilized, hard-eyed Togolese veterans of French colonial wars, who had fought from Indo-China to Algeria but could find no place in their homeland's armed forces. Recently, a tough ex-sergeant, Emmanuel Bodjolle, 35, jobless and with a family to support, organized a conspiracy with 30 other noncoms. Last week, after Olympio tore up a final plea to take into the service at least 60 of the most qualified veterans, Bodjolle snapped: "Bon. Ça va." That midnight his battle-tough insurgents struck, easily occupying the capital...