The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-28
BONUS ROUTS FOG
FOR FORD WORKERS
Comet Outshone When Office
Boy Gets His Share Of
That $1O,OOO,OOO.
MOST SALARIES DOUBLED
Investigators Now Will Watch
the 400 to See What
They DO With It.

Neither IN speed nor In luminosity OF
countenance did tho late Halley's comet
have anything on Master Freely Pesagno,
when Freddy. office boy and youngest en-
ployee In the orc automobile branch fac
tory. Long Island City. lit out yesterday
from the Ford factory at the close Of tho
afternoon and streaked toward his home at
SO Vernon avenue. Long Island City.
clutching tightly his first share OF Mr..
Fords slo.oOo.oO profit sharing distribu-
ton to employees.
About $50 OF the 400 employees at the
Long Island branch factory received yes
terdsy for tho first time the increase In
wages when the pay envelopes were
handed out. The others will get the In
crease when their departments are paid
off on Saturday next.
1t goes without saying that II there was
sunshine any place amid the fog and carly
darkness that settled upon the greater
city last evening II was around the Ford
factory. SO far as Freddy Pesagno. a
bright faced, well dressed youngster in
diminutive Knockers and things was con-
cerned Christmas had come again. Until
the profit sharing plan went into effect
yesterday little Freddy received $50 a
ucIltn HIS WOIh VI oiihc poNhiS'
Beginning with yesterdays first melon
cutting. Freddy receives So day. or. you
see, almost $50 a month u boost In wages
which Freddy seems TO think perfectly
fair and square on the part OF the com
pany.
What are you gonna do with II,
Freddy?' was the only question that
! could be shot after the little figure flash
ing of into the fog.
Save up and buy a Ford carr Freddy
yelled back Loyalty over his shoulder AS
he faded into the musgy mist.
Every mechanic and laborer over %
years old in the mechanical department
| Of the factory, regardless Of length OF
service. received the Increase yesterday
| the minimum wage being So. An employee
under % years who is married or has
| parents or others depending on him also
| gets the minimum or So Porters who dc
the cleaning-there are no scrubwomer
| in the factory-and watchmen, who for
merly received about sl4 a week. now viii
get $50 a week.
The thirty or more girls and womer
employed in tn" Long Island plant doing
| stenography NJ other office work will
gather In their increase with the mer
next Saturday. Mr. Ford has had 6
minimum wage for his women workers OF
$50 n month for a long time Th'
monthly wages of these girls will now b.
about 800 u month.
In fact, there will be n doubling o.
salaries up to the 5000 month limit
Those who have been paid more than Se0'
in the past will have their wages ad
vanced on Il sliding scale.
In the meantime. 1t was learned a
Long Island City. corps OF invcsti
gators are looking into the personal. finan
cial and domestic affairs OF the employees
now sharing profits. And where the com
pany learns from It's investigators tina
the added wage is being misused by a,
employee that individual instead Of
continued salary boost will be prompt.
discharged.
Across the avenue from the factory i
the only saloon within a block. 1t locke,
abject and forlorn. Two We're IN tn
place and only one gas Jet glared feebl,
above tho bar. Tho proprietor saw NJ
cause for rejoicing because Mr.. For,
had let IL be understood very plainly tina
none OF the bonus money must go owe
i the bar
Ground has been bought adjoining tn
factory on which an addition is to b.
built. It will be 325 by 225 feet an,
eight stories high, with about 500 90
square feet OF floor space. II is hope
20 have Il IN operation within n yea
and TO increase the force TO about 1900.