Automation Blamed for Recession
A labor union official said yesterday the Nation is suffering its first ÛÏautomation, ;recession." He said more jobs: I will vanish unless job-security clauses are written into union; i contracts.	j</br></br>A labor union official said yesterday the Nation is suffering its first ÛÏautomation, ;recession." He said more jobs: I will vanish unless job-security clauses are written into union; i contracts.	j } David Lasscr, research cli-jy.-ctor of the international1 : U a ion of Electrical Workers, ,was one of several speakers' at an AFL-CIO conference on technological change.</br></br>He and other speakers blamed automation for re-, duced employment in the coal.i steel, auto, rubber, textile! and electrical industries.</br></br>The onc-day conference was attended by 200 research specialists and economists from 45 unions. Jt was sponsored by. the AFL-CIO's Industrial' Union Department composed' mainly of former CIO unions,; including the Auto Workers, Steelworkers and Rubber Workers.</br></br>Economist Robert Nathan, told the conferees there were no signs of an upturn in the | current business recession.. Furthermore, he said, the recession was being ÛÏexportedÛ I to other countries suffering, from reduced imports by the. United States.