Some analysis consider the process of automation a second industrial revolution with the potential for social upheaval that marked the birth of the factory a century and a half age. Others insist it is just another stop in industry's progress toward greater efficiency, no different in its basis attributes from any of the technological advances that have helped raise American wages, employment totals and living standards. Congressional investigators, puzzled about that action the government should take, have been told by the union leaders that automation threatens mass unemployment and by business executives that it will bring unparalleled prosperity. Engineers say that push-button factories may eventually permit a work schedule in which the week. Educator see all this leisure promoting a scholastic renaissance in which cultural attainments will become the yardstick of social recognition for worker and boss a like Gloomier observes fear the trend toward "inhuman production will end by making men obsolete.