watch the people men and women who lived by machines and bought machine made good and slept denver wake up to go to the machine i remember when those factories were built we were pretty happy about it concrete and glass is why it was like money in the bank more machines more jobs thirty six million more minute work in the last seventy years eighteen new industries in the country millions of new jobs automobiles get radio man wanted man w well what about the man that's a complicated question sometimes the change was slow machinery didn't always disturb our lives the old jobs when there was trouble but we got new job take russell for example used to make carriages live next door to me a good many years he took to making parts for indians a man with skilled hands like tom can turn them to another trade if the work is not too far different even the older man had not so much trouble as you think some machines needed skilled men almost as many as before and this work was easier on the bac or bill johansen used to be a break but on the railroad that ran from the junction across to our town now there's a bus runs right alongside the old track he was out of work about six months now he's turning out parts  diesel that same engine that helped put him out of his job that's the way it was and machines like this machine looms came in pretty gradually everybody knew they were coming times a good minute a chance to look around moved to another state move into our town because they heard about our new law the steel rolling mill three thousand jobs good times make good christmas make payrolls from the steel mill the engine plant weaving mills plenty of money in town that went to buy food and drove the same all over the country machines making cheaper goods a lot of them a new kinds of products quite a few new stores to a lot of the young people got silly jobs in those stores and clerical jobs in the offices not so long ago either my own youngest daughter got married a christmas marriage right all the church bells and we thought prosperity would last forever we were able to buy good products shipped from other industrial town from everywhere in the us and we shipped our goods in return the wheels kept going around we thought prosperity would last forever now it was over we hoped it would return but the machines were idle a long time so little man it wasn't the fault of the machines we kept blame them for depression in fact machines that often created jobs but now there was depression i never thought i'd it snow on those rollers two thirds of the town on release then when recovery began when there were orders for steel again the old mill stage and the years have brought a new method a new machine automatic high speed strip now every thirty men who worked before now there is one no more strain on the back and shoulders no more work for three thousand the family is automatic high speed powerful accurate never gets tired never gets sick gotta get out of this dump soon he used to hang around together workin at the moon and now i can't stand them look at them make their thinking and i think things i know that again we've got to look at a rise again i don't want to go home what am i going home all right i'm wondering one room is how much i can do no more than try the long as the old mill was there we kept on hoping we kept our eyes on them maybe they'll reopen maybe next month but when they cut those smokestacks out of the sky we had nothing to look at any more decent fine work when every one of them their hands were trained but now that training is no good they're no more than unskilled men until they learn a new skill labor saving machines can make more goods for a lot of people but the machines have come so fast that the displaced workers have not been able to learn new skills and find other guy why should these men be thrown away as if they were obsolete as if they were broken i'm only twenty five years old i'm not obsolete maybe we could get him to bring some new factories into the city i'm a spiel worker i worked in a mill twenty years i couldn't go to work making radios or refrigerators but did get a job it's the same way with millions of trained men it hit our town hard and suddenly but it's not a local problem nothing is this is our town by itself can't feed these men can't afford to retrain them it's a bigger thing than one mayor in one town can possibly him it's a national problem a man may be through it is old occupation but he still can retrain for another job in the last ten years we've let our reservoir skill run seriously low millions of workers have been idle in each of these ten years that means millions of man years of work experience a lot of films allowed to rus we've needed a retraining program for a long time industries need machinists mechanics skilled workers of every kind method to change all right let's train the men for new jobs let's teach them versatile skills it's taken an emergency to get us started on a nationwide scale but what we learned this year about the problem about taking new skills to displaced workers could help  peacetime economy as well as national defense we need claims men more than ever today schools in our town and hundreds of others are training men for new jobs the men who worked in the old steel mills and learned to handle then drill the men who knew one operation and be trained for a wider usefulness we're meeting a crisis now government and industry are working together to retrain these men when the crisis is passed let's remember what they've learned new automatic processes will keep on coming we need but let's keep the workers of today let's keep their skills as modern as the new machines