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"Vicious Propaganda." Suppose, said Fairless as a clincher, that "all technological progress in the auto industry had stopped back in 1908, and that we were trying to build a 1955 car, at today's wages, with the tools and machines we used then. Such a car, if it could be produced at all, would cost well in excess of $65,000! How many cars would there be on the road? And how many roads would we have? How many jobs would there be in Detroit, and in the oilfields, and in the tiremaking industry—or even in our steel mills for that matter?
"The time has come to nail this vicious propaganda for the miserable fraud that it is. The facts show that only through the widest possible use of new and better machines can we hope to achieve the fullest measure of employment and a higher standard of living."
*For news of other doings by the C.I.O.'s Reuther last week, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS.