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Western industry long ago disproved Karl Marx's prediction that the workingman would become ever poorer in a capitalistic state. But it has yet to prove wrong his less well remembered forecast that workers would become progressively more alienated from their jobs. The young people now entering the factories present an opportunity for employers to end that alienation. Blue collar youngsters are as eager as the college students to become involved and to genuinely earn the pay and leisure that they seek. Essentially it is the task of management to give them that chance. As it is, the alienation of the blue collar worker compounds all the other ills of the U.S.. making it more difficult to integrate the blacks, or to bring the realities of the American system into closer conformity with the ideals of the young. The blue collar worker is exerting his new power to resist some social changes because the developments of the last decade have not been kind to him, and he has for too Jong been ignored. He is now insisting that the nation listen to him. He must accommodate himself to social change, but somehow he also must be accommodated if American society is to continue to progress.