1Z ~ LIBR ~ 0 ill e l5..IJ I NF B MATIOl\T Vol. II No.3 Quezon City, Philippine October 1974 In this issue: The Philippine Population-1985 I 2/PSSC Social Science Information October 19741 Editor's notes The conservatives usually cry very the working hours of labourers will be leaders always meddle with it. Their object, loudly against the rapid mechanisation reduced to half. The reduction in the ive is always to serve the interests of their brought about by the use of advanced .working hours will. certainly, have to be party and not the welfare of labourers. types of scientific technology. The fact is effected. keeping in view the demand for that the mechanisation under a capitalistic the commodities and the availability of ******** framework means more misery and labour resources. unemployment to the common people and The proper use of science, under the The aspiration to become rich by ex­ hence the objection from the conservative collective economic set up will only bring ploiting others is a sort of mental malady. camp. The mechanlsation applied in the forth human welfare. It may well be just In fact,if the eternal hunger of the human I public welfare without hitting the possible that owing to mechanisation no soul does not find the real path leading to I capitalistic framework has to be opposed, one will have to undergo labour for more mental and spiritual wealth, it becomes; because with the double increase in the than five minutes a week. Being not always engaged in the work of depriving others of yield of a machine the requirement of engrossed in the anxiety about grains and human labour will decrease by half clothes,there will be no misuse of their their rights by robbing them of their reo consequently capitalists retrench labourers mental and spiritual resources. They will be sources more than what is required in this mercilessly. A few optimists can, however, able to devote more time to sports, literary material world. If any member of a joint remark "under the pressure of discourses and moral and spiritual pursuits. family seizes the food materials from the circumstances, men will find out the ways store by application of mental or physical . force, he certainly becomes the cause of for absorbing the surplus labourers ;n ******** aifferent jobs and the very attempt of misery to others. Similar is the case when a finding out such means will accelerate the capitalist says; "We have seized wealth by scientific progress. So the ultimate effect The trade union movement is essentially intelligence and labour. If others have the of mechanisation brought about under required for safeguarding the interests mental and physical potentialities they capitalism is rather good". This view labourers and for this proper steps should may do it. Who objects to it?" They do though not .useless has got no practical be taken in order to let it flow in a right not want to realise that the volume of the value for it is never practicable to make the channel. Generally, it is observed that the commodities is limited whereas the require­ necessary arrangement to find jobs for the leaders of this movement do not try to ments is common to all. In most of the retrenched labourers, as rapidly as they are make labourers conscious of their spheres the abundance in one individual's lead~ thrown out of employment due to speedy responsibilities with the same spirit they case to the reduction in morsels in mechanisation. The unemployed labourers try to create in them the sense of their the case of others (or leads to taking the are ruined, bit by bit, due to poverty and demands and rights. The best way to avoid bread out of the mouth of others). Not to hunger. A few of them try to keep their this mal·adjustment is the clear acceptance understand this common necessity of all is souls .and bodies together by of the rights of labourers in the rnanaqe­ a mental ailment. But the people afflicted with this malady' indulging in theft, robbery, corruption and ment of industry and business. other different sorts of anti-social In this direction, mere propagation of are also members of this vast human activities. This situation ii, certainly, not ideology or sermonising some text will not family and consequently, they are our desirable. But there is no possibility of be of much value. There is another great brothers. Therefore, they will have to be such reaction in a collective economic set defect in the general trade union move­ cured of this disease by either making up. There, the mechanisation will mean less ments: - that its leadership does not reo humanitarian appeals or by exerting pres­ labour and more of comforts. With double main in the hands of true labourers. With sure of circumstances. If will be a great· increase in the productivity of machines, party interest at their hearts, political crime even tothinkof their destruction. ~ Social Science lS.IJ INFORlJliI. TION Staff: The PSSC is a nonstock nonprofit, pri- The PSSC Executive Board for 1974·75 are .vate association of Philippine social Armand V. Fabella, chairman: Lo;etta M. Dennis G. Teves, editor science organizations. 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