South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-10

appreciation OF your loyalty ana m
dustry and 10 assure you that it is
our constant aim to meet the gen.
eral conditions as to wages for all
workers, 10 the end that you will
feel an interest in improving your
effort and in continuing as perman-
ent employees of the company, and
in encoura ging others to join us in
our work.
Employment at Top Wages.
STEADY employment at top wages,
sood working conditions, consider
ate treatment, are all fundamental
principles with this organization. We
want your cooperation in all mat
ters and i'm times like the present,
we need every man at his station,
and we want his voluntary effort to
help us get other workers TO keep
up the work in hand.
Let US do our best work at our
respective jobs for never more than
now is the result of our work more
needed, nor will it ever be more
helpful to the ultimate Of our coun-
try as we'll as of ourselves.
a very large part of the business
to which we are not committed is
either directly or indirectly identi-
fled with service 10 our country.
Every man in this organization can
feel that he is doing his bit for his
family and his Flag through his
work in this factory.
I'VE feel proud that we are so for
4 -. = r. -.
sake Of our desire to do our part,
and also in having such a large por-
ton of the money which is being
expended by the government in buy
ing it's needs, paid out in this COM
munity; in this respect, we are very
fortunate as there are many other
sections of the country where the
opportunity for buying by the gov
eminent or where the products are
not essential TO the present war de-
mands and where business will be
dull and where such benefits cannot
DC received.
Organization il Alive.
Il have given my personal insur-
ance TO the officials at Washington
that this organization was alive to
the demands OF the hour, that they
were loyal and that any contracts
with which they favored us would
be gotten out in first class manner.
and on time. and 1 know you will
back me up in this promise and do
your best in this emergency, and we
want you 10 earn the best wages the
business will stand and such as will
justify your best effort and your best
interest in promoting all of our
work.
This brings US up TO another
point: AS a matter of principle we
have felt that for the sake of our
boys who are lighting for US in Eu-
rope, and having no holidays, that
it was hardly the right thing for us
not 10 be on the job all the time
over here, and | still think We
should consider that point and be
willing to do all we can, whenever
we can, whether we need the money
or not to rush the things out that
they need most to carry on our part
in this conflict.
1T would now seem that We
could. in a way, compensate fer a
short weekly holiday by bending
ourselves more energetically TO the
tasks in hand during the other pc
RODS OF the weekly work time and
in that way face an extra rest on
Saturday afternoons with a clear
conscience. If we do our best, we
will earn that time off for personal
uses either in garden work, or rec
reation or both.
with this in view, we will again
inagurate the Saturday afternoon
holiday in May. beginning with the
first Saturday. which is the 4th, and
continue throughout the summer
season unless the force OF circum-
stances might will otherwise.
such time and the additional
daylight time due 20 advancing the
clock ahead oue hour NAV well he