CHAPTER XI 
CONSTRUCTIVE REMEDIES NFEDED 
The need of constructive measures, not only to prevent 
a catastrophe of unemployment, but to deal with it effec- 
tively should it occur, thus became clearly apparent. De- 
tached students as well as those directly connected with 
industry and the organized labor movement had gradually 
become keenly alive to the problem. Secretary Davis, in 
addressing the Machine Engineers’ Beneficial Association 
n the early part of 1928, stated: 
Growing lines of job-seekers created by ingenious labor- 
saving machinery must be considered along with the marvels 
of efficiency and comfort this mechanical progress has 
brought about. 
Some of our joy over the great inventive genius of our 
masters has been turning to grief as we witness yearly the 
growing lines of job-seekers, trained men, middle-aged men 
of experience, who have been forced from their trades and 
vocation by labor-saving machinery. 
It seems that this phase of industrial proficiency bids fair 
to exact too heavy a toll in the years to come, unless we get 
busy and invent new industries for the fellow whom the 
machine shunts aside. 
About the same time, President Green, of the American 
Federation of Labor, in addressing the students of the 
University of Michigan. said: 
In the survey made of this situation we are impressed by 
the fact that, while we could not interfere with industrial 
progress and scientific advancement, we will be confronted 
with the problem of displacement in a most acute form. 
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