The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-26
Henry Ford Sees
 Shorter Work Day


 Henry Ford foresees a shorter working. day and contends the: lead CTS of industry in this country will best serve their own interests when they show a, disposition to increase rather than decrease wages. And he running for President of the, United States or not.
 Those are the chief points disclosed in an interview with Ford dp the cur ten by Charles w. Wood. who asked the Detroit automobile manufactures frankly:
 twill you run for President Would offered to your" Ford. after long hesitation. but, according to the writer with no intention of lodging, finally said, 'I won't tell you" and contended the question doesn't seem to mean anything to me- Ford had something to say about railroads and the fact that despite the strike the Ford interests were having no trouble.
 We own 8 railroad and we own some mines. We have no labor trou- bles.: You don't have any labor trou- bles when you know how to prevent them, and you can always make prop critics pay If you can make them serve."
 "I want to abolish poverty from America," he said little later. 'rI want to make wages higher. I want to make good home possible for every child. Low wages are silly. You can't get rich by making people poorer-they can't buy your goods then, and there you are. The only way to get rich is by making people rich. Wealth wouldn't be such curse if everybody helped to carry it" Ford also talked of the ''big plan" of things and the "new era''-the new order before establishment of which he oh he lot of tr0 another war. He said of Debs:
 "Debs was a fool. If he couldn't stand for the war he should have kept his mouth shut He talked also and said the control of money should be returned where the Constitution placed it-in the hands of the peo- ple's government. What is needed to- the three arts," industry. agricul- kturee and transportation. One trouble I with the country, he said, is too much | organization" He went on:
 "As soon as there is organization then there is scheming to leave some-
 body out. Take the manufacturers l association, for instance. I couldn't work with them, for when they got 1 together it wasn't to carry on manu- 1 featuring; it was to cut wages or to l do some other equally silly thing. That, of course, is just little sillier than anything else I can think | of, but some of the other schemes ran a close second-1engthen the work day, maybe. Anybody ought to know | by this time that an eight hour day l is much more efficient than ten or tweve, and if I don't miss my guess 1 it will have to be reduced again in | the near future. You can't get any | where by tiring labor out.
 '"The manufacturers have got to be- come interested in high wages; they
 must make them as high as they can 1 them ramernhQr- in order tO succeed And the workers have got to become interested in maximum production while the dealers bring the prices down to the lowest possible l limit. If we got everybody doing this
 we wouldn't need much help from the government. There wouldn't be much
 of any other problems to solve and | the government could take vacation.
 Maybe it would have to-. Maybe there wouldn't be anybody left will ing to for office.n