The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1930-04-10
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note: ' ■ ■ ■ OWNED or Statesirc AND CONTROLLED ^^^y BY TOE VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR 0 Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions NO. 311—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, CANADA, APRIL 10, 1930 Is Man Made for Machines or Machines for Man ? Human Gods Who Made the Machines Are Being Slowly Crushed in Their Own Gigantic Mill of Life—Civilization Using . Men and Women With Terrific Rapidity... -«HE RADICAL EFFECTS OF EXTENDED USE of machinery ' and mechanical processes as the chief basis for modern progress and their subsequent influence upon the development of economic [conditions generally, were given a decided and direct slap in an [interesting address of timely warning made quite recently by Mr. J Henry Seidel Canby, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, |at the dedication of Oklahoma's new library at the state university. As a subject, which already has I become practically inexhaustible for ■ discussion, men occupying the most I prominent positions in our national ■life are beginning to more deeply ■concern themselves with the problem lof the ensuing consequences of a ■ highly developed machine age, where ■ the performance of human labor is ■ being more and more eliminated Iwithout the least consideration of resulting effects, which are seriously Idarkening the future of the working I people. I Doctor Canby, one of the foremost [critics of literature of the times, ■ came from New York to tell citizens lof Oklahoma that the "human gods" 1 who have created the modern ma- I chine age are being slowly crushed 1 in their own gigantic mill of life; I that civilization of 1930 is usin" both I men and women with terrific rapid- lity, and warping them and the coun- jtry in which they live toward an lever narrowing ideal of physical accomplishment. "The human and the mechanistic I in civilization have always been in I opposition, but there never has been I so nenrly a 'knockout' of the human element as now," Doctor Canby said. I "It is always a question whether man I is made for machin…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439147
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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