Automation

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 December 1964.

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Photo of Mr Dudley Smith Mr Dudley Smith , Brentford and Chiswick 12:00, 7 December 1964

Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that both management and unions require a much better appreciation of the consequences of both the benefits and the difficulties of automation, particularly as this revolution is proceeding at a very fast pace and we want it to come as a harmonious one? Should not the survey, apart from manpower, be on a much broader basis so that we can coordinate the various reports which are coming through and publish them from time to time?