The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-09
FORD WILL BUILD NO WAR CARS FOR
 FIGHTING ARMIES
Says Resources in That Line ~ Are For United States
 Government Alone.

New York, Aug. Eff l had 1O0,OOO cars right now I could place them all,' Henry Ford said last night to 9. re- porter at the Hotel Biltmore. He had just been asked what he thought about the prosperity of this country at the present time
 "Prosperity?'' he repeated. '.It has been reported to me from all quarters. Conditions in this country were never better. There is not one bad spot that I know of, and I have heard from them all Crops are good and the farmers are buying. We have large orders from everywhere.
 T have just learned that the Eng :lish automobile manufacturers are feeling the competition of American cars. I suppose it is because so many of the English factories have been turen over to the manufacture of war materials. I believe we could get a lot of that stray English ha>siness, but I for one am not going after any of it. I don't want any of it. It would not be fair It would be taking an advan- tage. We have all the business over there that we want right now. Then it would be depriving the people of this country.
 .tAs for the ma-zufacture of cars for war purposes, all T can say is, that don't want any of the war supply money. I will make no war munitions for any country except the United States. [ would defend the United States, the same as I would build q roof over my house. But I don't think we will have to defend our. country.
 We are filling an order to supply the British government with 15,00O ann balances, but don't consider them munitions of war. Certainly they are not destructive
 Not Consulted by Daniels.
 MT. Ford said he did not know any more about the Naval Reserve Board that Secretary Daniels decided, upon than what he had read in, the papers. He said he had not been asked by the secretary or any one else to serve on the citizens advisory board sA
 It3had been reported that -P. L@fD. Perry, managing director of the Ford Motor company, England. Limited, who arrived last night on the Ameri- | can liner St. Paul, was bringing a large order for Ford cars from the I ever given for auton obi1es. MT. Ford and Mr. Perry both denied it. s
 ''We could not accept any more large orders for cars from England right now. said 1Ir. Ford. S.tIf we did \ we could not i'll our orders here And l it is America first for me. . tHOur entire factory in Detroit has I been shut down for two weeks, end l ing last night, but tomorrow morn l ing 10000 men go back to work. There l is plenty of work piled up for them and they'll be fit as 8 fiddle to pitch into it.
 Everybody Takes Vacation s'I gave every one a two weeks va cation You see, John Jones came to
 me and said he. was pretty tired and ! hot. and would like to get a fewSdays 1 off. Then Bill Smith came to me with
 the same tale. And so it went. l began to think it over and came to
 the conclusion I wouldn't mind a va
 cation nyself.' So I said to John and 1 Bill, We'll all take a two weeKs' va cation,' and we did.''
 MT. Ford was asked if the men re- 1 ce1ved two weeks pay during the lay off. He said a1I8 of those on the I monthly payroll did: He estimated 1 the number that were paid as about
 one in twenty-five
 MT. Ford went to the American Line
 pier at the foot of West Twenty first
 Street with his son, Edsel B. Ford,
 Frank KIingersrnith, director of the
 Ford factory at Detroit, and WiIliam m
 B: Mayor, chief engineer at the fac
 tory
 ! Motor Company. England, Limited, is 3a separate company from the Ford l Motor Company here, but that it is | Controlled by MT. Ford.
 He said that when he left the other side 12. 800 Ford cars had been turned | out this year by the English factory. | That was from Jan. 1 to August. The St. Paul sailed from Liverpool on July 31 The company then had unexe- l cuted orders for 5000 cars. The out l put was almost a, 50 per cent. increase over 1914.
 | @s Prompt on British Orders He said. that 600 cars had t been I turned out for a1nbulances for the
 British Government on it's order and that incidentally it was the only au- I tomobi1e concern in England that had | not kept the Government waiting or
 orders. The Ford factory is in Man chester, and 1.60o men are employed there. The wages Of the men MT l Perry said. are 50 per cent. higher l grade for. grade. than in any other i automobile factory in England. The i company has had no labor trouble
 even with the war.
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