National Affairs: Four Ideas

There were four notable comments on Industry and Labor.

Baker on Velvet. Newton Diehl Baker, discussing technological Unemployment in Manhattan last fortnight, declared: "The advantages and gains which come from machinery have no right to be all velvet to industry unless they are velvet to society. Industry has no right to take till the gains that come from this rapid substitution of machine process for human hands without bearing a substantial part of the consequent dislocation of the human element which it causes."

Wages v. Dividends. Edward F. McGrady, A. F. of L.'s Washington...

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