The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-08

to see to that sort of thing. You see it has been discovered that under cer- tain temperatures various forms of la Dor can produce more quickly.
 Tn Rochester there is factory that provides the closest kind of a physical examination and those that are unfit are sent to sanatoriums and hospitals at the expense of the employer until they can return to work In this factory no one Is refused an opportunity to work. In fact no man who presumes nowadays to be an industrial leader should decline men and women as unfit to labor. The lead CTS should know where to place various men and women to their utmost advan- tage.
 PROCESS IN FORD PLANT
 That is what they do at the Ford plant, the most wonderful laboratory in the world. It Is there that they have humanlzed business; it is there that hope IS porn again for the worker; it is there that everyone has an equal chance.
 ou must know that in great indus trial centers hundreds of men are em pIoyed doing one monotonous thing. If was so at the Ford plant. and if both cred MT. Ford very much so he set his investigators at work until they divided the oo,Wo different operations that it takes 10 make ms wonderful little car into eight ~ 10 Just llhe d primary school. The worker starts in the first grade, and so if he shows the necessary initiati five ne goes on through the various grades un- LII at the end he is rewarded with an executive position, provided he has shown tnat trend. In other words, not only are hlgh wages given him by Ford. but hope and an ambition to get along.
 Another thing at Fords is that no workers are scrapped That is one of rf sflnr19 z .J..
 ping Of the old, of the injured. for the younger and more aggressive. workers. AL Ford's these are taken care of, espe- cially the old.
 BENEFITS OF SHORTER HOURS
 Now, about these long hours, these oays of 12 hours of labor; are they necessary? A friend of mine named Golden Rule Howard of Illinois pur- chased steel plant about 12 years ago and discovered his men were working 12 hours a day.
 That is all wrong' he said, mo man can be a good citizen that works F hours a day. He has no time for good citizenship He then changed the policy to three shifts of eight hours and month later was told by his ac- countant the astounding truth that his mill was producing more and making more money In other words, as he told me; The men who work p hours a day work to the tune of Old Hun dred. while those who labor eight hours hit it to the briskness of Yam kee Doodle.'
 'Tn many factories other than the health and other welfare measures there is the profit sharing system to imbue into the workers the spirit of pride and ownership in their work. In some factories the workers own near 1y half of the stock and are repre- scented on the board of directors and the management.
 And so it goes on, these progress sive strides to make the lot of the worker a happy one. Managers are dis covering that shorter hours, healthy surroundings and high wages are the greatest assets to successful industry. It is well that this is so as when the European war is ended we will have to utilize our labor forces as never before.
 "I am not one of those persons who believes that Europe will swamp us with goods as soon as the war is over. No, for five years after the war is over we will be shipping goods over there, but after that time we must look out for ourselves. as the highest tariff wall that we can raise will not protect our markets unles our labor ing forces are mobilized in a friend Iy spirit of cooperation with capital. This industrial war must cease or trained, scientific Europe will sweep our markets from us, as the only way we can hold them is by producing the best goods at the lowest prices and to do this successfully capital must recognize in labor the greatest of our forces, and the noblest of the express Sions of man"