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12 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER ‘Get., 1965

we don’t think

automation —
IS a monster

but it can be if we don’t plan ahead!

~

In the long run, industrial progress helps every-
one. It makes possible new methods of produc-
tion, increases efficiency, and introduces bene-
fits that are hard to imagine in advance.

BUT!

At the outset it also creates hardship and misery
to thousands of people!

New machines displace people.

It’s as simple as that,

What happens to the thousands of people who
lose their jobs and their incomes because ma-

IMPORTANT :

When a man is displaced by automation,
it costs us taxpayers more in support
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would cost us to retrain that man and
help him find another job.
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will cost us dearly!

chines do their work more efficiently and more

. profitably ?

Up to now, nothing has happened! :
Except that thousands of people have lost their
jobs and incomes; and there are thousands

more to come! :
It’s one of the biggest problems facing our

country today!
What’s needed is a positive government |pro-
gram to retrain displaced workers!

To teach them new skills!

LET’'S DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT— VOTE FOR THE N EW

DEMOCRATS

To find them new jobs!

Funny, isn’t it, that the old line parties never
seem to think it necessary to do something
about this crucial problem? That they prefer
to muddle along hoping that somehow every-
thing will work itself out?

Well, displaced workers don’t think it’s very
funny. :

And neither do we.

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