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Robert An
or how automation makes more and better paying jobs
You hear a lot of talk these days about how automation is going to cost people their jobs.
"Me, I work in the most 'automatized' industry of them all — petroleum. And far from costing me my job, automation has made it a better one.
"When I was just getting started in the refinery back in 1925 the average production for the industry was 32 barrels
of product a day per man. The average investment in refinery tools at the time was $10,000 per man.
"Today the industry's investment in tools for each refinery employee is $50,000. Oirhand you'd think that that much machinery would put some refinery people out of work. But just the opposite is true.
"Back in 1925 the refineries employed just over 65,000 people. Today they give jobs to over twice as many — 133,000. What's more, our production has gone up to 59 barrels a day per man.
"We produce these 59 barrels in 40 hours a week, instead of the old 51 in 1925. And we make more money. In my case my pay is up 288.89% since I started on the job.
"If this is automation, I'm all for it."
"MY PAY IS UP 288%. IF THIS IS AUTOMATION, I'M ALL FOR IT."
Automation, it seems to us here at Union Oil where Angell works, illustrates again the basic strength of America's free competitive economy.
So long as business has to compete, it must constantly improve its products. This calls for the fullest use of new and better machines.
This has sometimes caused temporary readjustments in an industry. But in the
long run it creates better paying jobs for more and more people.
Which is another reason why the number of Americans at work and the standard of living they enjoy continue to climb.
YOUR COMMENTS ARE INVITED. Write:
The President, Union Oil Company, Union Oil Building, Los Angeles 17, California.
Union Oil Company
OF CALIFORNIA
MANUFACTURERS OF ROYAL TRITON, THE AMAZING PURPLE MOTOR OIL
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