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One of the Six Million
Harding, T. Swann | June 24, 1931 issue

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An author's friend is starving due to economic conditions in the U.S. His friend had taken chances. He had a skilled trade, he made his eight dollars a day; and he accumulated a wife and two children. Then machines came along and squeezed the economic life out of him, and he found himself just exactly where he should have expected himself to be if he had any brains at all or had considered the matter. He was one of the "technologically unemployed" person. Today, the author's friend would scrub floors, or wash out the bathtub, or clean rugs, or do almost anything to earn a living.

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UNEMPLOYED; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED States -- Economic conditions; ECONOMIC forecasting; RIGHT to labor; UNITED States
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