The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-07-14
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WITNESS sTlN0
Youthful President Of vsrd Com
psny rsils of War Werk
Broke Production
Records

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iAssisn cf fas~i rord president y ths
Fera Motor comp<hs in fr,ds,s sss
slon os hsaFs foFds mnlIon dollar
nhsi salf against the chle.sa ftshuns
u ~as developed 90 alf~gi ssamlns
uon that hssA pfu-isssloa sna pspnss
-sfv, soahlsa amer the aislmam .sss
texle ~ ave aohars ~ss fall, snass
cay u .ss sho~n that the ne, ssw
inss - the somr.ny for ths year hs
nss The profit sharing plan went into
snsrt -~ss sss.ssa.1s5 IN ipis, the
AFa pear that ths rrcat sharing tisa
-.s In or<F.ioa. the ne, ssmsns. ln
crssssi 70 sia sss 900 The prcn, is
iis snss the prom shstihs plan ~ss
~ ifeli s~lns ~sre aesels thase -
iis a. ~ss the osiarsnys rrodsetloa.
Tho wl,n.ss thea underwent the
rather uniaus sspesisas. ~ heinz
etoss examined ~ hb fathers altar
asys and sshlblssd . eonpr.h.nslhl
srasp ~ The mammoh business In alt
- aspeis. Industrial. nasnrisl and
s0'sn,ins and save ssidsns asslre to
'ansinse his fathers policies 9Th ~.
sAni 10 the welfare ~ the men.
hasei ford testified that h. entered
The fafa factory at the Ass ~ n and
psnt aboni foar years ~osklns In the
various departments lie ~as work.
lhlg In the shop ~hsn the o. . day
prohl sharing plan sss begun and
~ss able To sAuKs The snsets % /, iss,
"a srsatsr eoatsntsdaess and ptosrsr
ny amongst the -ortsns forcs us
ssplainsa the fosd sullty ~ steadily
redaesns 'hs pslse ~ "a. Fora car 10
order 60 kssp down The hlsh prorss
and showed ths, the rebate 20 mar,
nae.rs of the car amounted 10 tis..
oeo.o zoe he eald that ~lsh The g40nI
sharing plan came also mst thlusrs
thansss designed To make the msn',
~prA easier
The ,ouns president of the Ford
Motor Ga. ssssined khaf the minority
Stockholders had strongly objected Il
these successive cuts Ia the price al
the ear aud had alAs objected 10 Al
lowing the fosd Mosy Co 10 30 wsl
work for The government without
profit.
The best that Henry Ford could a.
nader such opposltlnn uaa 10 remit
his own share ~ the foI,is Ia IL,
Fpssrnmsns Ills personal shar. thu,
lufnsd back amounted so sat1 10,
fsni. In other contracts the prau
~ss va los thar nobody sos murh oui
~ y The witness testified that III.
Iofdi Organization had Invented man,
time End money saving processes ~,
the nna ~ the government durins III.
var hui had not patented and " them
allowing the governments full and frss
use ~ them
On <0soo1 cylinders fur Liberty mo
tors which he company supplied to al
Liberty Motor manufacturers the rosl
wAs 60, from The government estlmat.
~ so 10 an actual cost nf ~ ut whIeI
lhey we're sold 20 the govefnmen.
The. cost ~ Ford work on helmetl
was reduced thre.foufths, the wisncss
fsstlned.
Arnor plate has been made "a
thick 20 Withstand the shot and shel
~ modern warfare that II Was render
~ tho heavy for practical us~ on lhs
tanks but srpssimsnts In lhe Ford
laboratories led TO the invention ol
q new type OF steel Of hslf the welshs
and the same rasisisnce texture The
anks which Ford Company produced
~Ithstood the test u actual warfare
50 successfully that the wcvsrnm~n,
placed an order for $1,000.
witness testified that Henry Ford
FASTENED the production of the tractor
a. war measure. selling sis thous
and to the British government on or
der Of the Ford department Of the
ministry of munitions.
Upon the request of Lloyd George
the british sovsrnmsnt treated the
tractors ~ war material and fseill.
tafed the shipment.
Edsel Ford Was examined about
sor.e of the alleged ustsrsnees of his
father with regard 10 the European
war He said he had heard loss II
things that wcrc Fepored 10 have been
sasd by his father bat has never heard
his father say than. somstimss
whene there vas sons bssBs in fact for
the repsrt his fathers statements had
usually been twisted on Of eli sem.
blance Of their original form and
meaning.
Wasn't n true that because u the
attitude rs your father toward the var