Building & engineering news . ployment, the commission suggeststhat public works be planned farenough ahead and flexible enough tobe pushed forward in times of depres-sion of private industry. Technoligi-cal unemployment, or that caused byreplacing of hand labor with machin-ery, can be lessened by the adoptionof sound plans to take care of thosereleased, either by absorption in otherdepartments or by providing dismissalwages large enough to tide the wovkerover until other work can be it is necessary to reduce theworking force because of changes inthe plant, it is suggested that i
Building & engineering news . ployment, the commission suggeststhat public works be planned farenough ahead and flexible enough tobe pushed forward in times of depres-sion of private industry. Technoligi-cal unemployment, or that caused byreplacing of hand labor with machin-ery, can be lessened by the adoptionof sound plans to take care of thosereleased, either by absorption in otherdepartments or by providing dismissalwages large enough to tide the wovkerover until other work can be it is necessary to reduce theworking force because of changes inthe plant, it is suggested that it bedone gradually, not by layoffs, butby non-replacement of losses due todeath or superannuation. Chronic un-employment could be relieved by theorganization ot- competent state andnational agencies, which could cen-tralize application for men and a plan would free workers fromthe high fees charged by private agen-cies and would tend to remove Uieabuses now prevalent in the privateagency system of supplying A Pittsburg Auto-matic Water Heaterinstalled in the Homeindicates high quality throughout. Recommended and speci-6ed by all the leading ar-chitects, plumbers andbuilders. Consider the high meritof the Pittsburg coupledwith Pittsburg PerfectService. Hot water quick as awink. Pittsburg Water Heater Co. Makers of Pittsbuig Automatic—Bungalow Automatic Storage Systems and Lyon Tank Water Heaters. 309 13th Street, Oakland 478 Sutter St., San Francisco SEND FOR CATALOGS BuildingEngineering ™_ NEWS —J SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF., JANUARY 10, 1931
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