Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-01-27
A NEW EvANGEL-
Henry Ford Seeks to Divide With the
Workers.

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Henry Ford Seeks to Divide With tho
Workers.
The Ford Motor company Is located
in Detroit, Mich. It is an enormous
concern and its profits reach into stu
pendous figures. The other day the
company startled the commercial,
financial, political and social world
with the declaration that its profits
should be boupteously shared with
the labor that produces its wares,
and that during the year 1914 the
pay envelopes Of Its employees shall be
lined with s1o,O00,000 above the
regular wage scale, that the lowest
wage shall be IS per diem, and eight
hours shall constitute days work.
1t is the biggest event that has oc-
CURED in this country since the wars
close. and 1t is a good omen that 1t
comes with the completion Of the
Panama canal Maybe II 10 the begin-
ming Of a social and Industrial reyolu-
ton that shall herald o millennium
which means universal peace and con-
cord between capital and labor. May
be the long expected Pope Angelica
is near at hand. -
Here is what the president Of the
company. Henry Ford, says:
I'VE believe In making 10000 men
prosperous and contented, rather
than follow the plan Of making few
slave-drivers In our establishment
multi -millionaires." rw' ~
Here is what the secretary-treas-
urer. James Couzens, says:
I'VE believe that social justice be-
gins at home. We want those who
have helped US to produce this great
institution and are helping TO main
tain 1t, to share our prosperity. We
want them to have present profits and
future prospects. Thrift, good SER
vice, and sobriety will be encouraged
and recognized" .l.G.J sss. ~
That is not only. exalted morality,
but It Is profoundest policy. No other
similar establishment in this country
will be able successfully to compete
with the concern. Already II has re-
ceived more and better advertising
than a million dollars cash expended
In the ordinary way would have fetch
ed 1t. Not only Is It In the news col.
umns of every paper, but not one
paper In a hundred will fail to make
favorable editorial comment on this
new evangel Of peace In the shop.
good will In the heart, brotherhood
everywhere. s @2Ei
The most efficient, the most siillful,
the most intelligent, the most desir-
able labor in its line vii be al tho
disposal of the Ford company. That
labor will be content, It will be cheer
full. 1t win be diligent, 1t will exert
It's utmost energies, II will strive to
do its best, for here labor y what
It should be eyerywhere--the partner.
and not the hireling. Of capitalS Y A
strike viii be an impossibility. Every
one of those $4,000 employees viii
know that II he does his best. hia
wage will still increase aceordlngly,
and he will do his best. striving every
hour to do better.
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On the other hand, labor In other
shops that are run on the principle
that all the profits Of the concern are
devoted to making few men million
aires will be sullen, as It has been for
so many years. Strikes will be NUM-
erous, slovenly work will be done. dis
content will be the rule.
And then another thing-where Is
the man, what Is he made Of. that.
will not deal with this Ford company
IL he can get as good wares at the
same price, rather than with any RI
val concern operated on the old plan
of perpetual warfare between capital
and labor? 1t may be objected that
this concern, after driving all COM
petitors out Of the field, will become q
grasping monopoly. ] do not believe
II. No company that Is 80 just with
it's labor will ever prove e1tortion-.
ate in its dealings with its customers.
The evangel it breaches Ia honesty
from skin to marrow and from mar
row to skin.
Now listen-as sure as there is a
difference between right and wrong,
this enterprise is going to be success
full beyond the most extrayagant ex-
pectation, and what is more and bet.
ter, It is going to be catching. Be-
fore the world ,s half dozen years
older there will be establishments in
Vulnerable in all industrial walks
operated on the plan marked out by
Henry Ford.
There is a prosperous anecdote.
whether true or false It matters not.
that the great Napoleon on the morn
of Jena, just as the sun was rising,
was giving orders to the assembled
marshals. AS they departed he dis
mounted from his charger and ap-
pr ached an old veteran, q vidette,
standing at rest with his arms on the
muzzle Of his musket and his chin on
his arms. This man had been at Lodi,
at Marengo. at Ulm, at Austerlitz.
Pulling his gray mustache. Napoleon
asked:
And what wilt thou have after
the battle and the victory?"
"Oh, II I were general Of brigade
I'd ask for something"
"And what would thou have IL gen.
eral of brigade?"
ITO be king Of Prussia; thouIl give
the title away before night"
What has that got to do with It?
you ask. This. simply this-f I
were 90 years younger I'd ask to be on
a prosperous newspaper run on the
Ford plan. And that win come. too
Savoyard.
Amused the Old Lady.-There was
a worried look on the grocer's face
as he rushed hatless down the street
and ran up the steps Of Acacia Villa.
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