Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-01-23
A. F. of L. Head Creates
Sensation at Industrial
Commission Hearing.
PROFIT-SHARING
PLAN MAKES MEN
Manufacturer Declares Taking Men
Into Partnership Helps Business, as
Well as Men--WGuId Make Man Of
Sing Sing Inmate.

New York, Jan. 22.-"'rhe institu-
ton of a new order. treating men
like men in man fashion. has brought
cut much of human slavdge. and
proven that barriers between EN-
Eloyers and employers, thought to
exist and which often do exist, can
be largely removed
Henry Ford, the Detroit motor car
manufacturer, thus summed up at
tcday's session Of the federal indus
trial commission, the amazingly sue
cessful result of the first year of the
Ford's profit sharing plan.
I'VE will guarantee to &ke every
man out Of Sing Sing and make a
man of him. Mr.. Ford added impress
sively.
A burst of applause swept through
the chamber in the city hall.
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
american Federation of Labor, pre-
sented labor's own view of the joint
obligations CT capital and labor. His
testimony attained sensational
heights when he charged that the
Rockefeller foundation has on the
government pay roll group OF its
officials who are using the Thanking
privilege to flood the country with
propagandist literature.
Again there was tumult in the
chamber when Mr.. Gompers denounc-
ed as insulting a question framed by
Walter Drew. counse: for the Nation
al Erectors' union, relative to the re-
sponsibility of damages of union
for Injury resulting from strikes,
boycott and dynamite outrages.
Mr.. Drew was silenced by Chair
man Walsh when he attempted to re-
ply to Mr.. Gompers, and a man VINO
shouted a question was elected from
the gallery.
What Profit Sharing Does.
Coming down to practical results:
Mr.. Ford summed up in a series OF
brief statements. He said:
nThe increased efficiency of the
men under the plan has been from
$50 to 200 per cent with reference
to work produced in an eight-hour
day versus comparison IN nine
hour day.
"Daily absentees from work have
decreased from 10 per cent under ola
conditions. to 80 of I per cent
under the profit sharing plan.
mo man is discharged from the
service of the company until he has
heen proven utterly unfit from every
standpoint. If he fairs to make good
in one department, the foreman OF
that department sends him to the
clearing house and he is given re-
heated trials if necessary until ne
makes good, or it is proven that NE
does not want to succeed.
"There has been an increase OF lau
ner cent. in bank accounts among tine
employes," Mr.. Ford said. An IN
crease of Sc per cent in insurance
carried and the value OF homei
owned outright by employees, has in
creased 81 ner cent.
wages Too Low For Family.
"No man can bring up family
and hope to own a home On the ofc''
rary rate of wages. =.
"I do not think any man could &c
good work mentally and physically
for more than eight hours per day.
"If employers of labor have gapu'
inc interest in the Improvement o.
the condition of labor no conditions
that are irksome or distasteful VIII
be laid upon the men.
"Our experience leads Us to con
c,nde that the interest taken in thu
men as to their individual welfare Il
most desirable from every standpoint
not only that of the employe and ms
family but of the business itself.
eve cannot expect man to give
us his hest effort when he is in deb
and has not enough to keep his faml
ly on.
"The sooner men can be taugh
that labor is just as much an asee
and more than machinery and Dul'd
ings. the sooner labor will be proper
ly recognized.
1--WE believe it is better, wiser an
more inst to make many men com
Portable than to make Few yer!
; rich" CT,
Mr. Gompers declared he woul'
onpose the Perkins proposition % p;'
labor under the same controi a
capital. this point being that II iaDo
was comp ,llcd to incorporate, ir
fnnds would constantly % at M
mercy of legal attempts to conns
cate funds which the laborlng mai
Ia Ne read a phamphlet issued b.