Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-04-06
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Henry Ford is as adept in securing free
advertising and his latest labor reform the establishment
Of five Gay week of eight hour days is exception AS
matter Of fact he has made advertising out Of adversy and
clevery solved the problem of reducing output to meet
diminished demand and cutting Like most OF fords
widely heraded efforts there is good deal OF bunk about
the pretense of philanthropy involved,
OF course the Portland Labor Council lost time in
endorsing Fords five day week. for organized labor nova
days is so much afraid of work that it halls with joy every
superficial that promises less labor Yet there was
nothing about the Ford proposal and there is nothing about
Fords treatment of that possibly please organ
lied labor II anyone but Ford adopted it, there would bel
ringing resolutions Of censure.
Fords proposal is fundamentally at variance with the
modern objects of organized labor Ford does not recognized
any union, and accepts union dctation. He does not
cooperate in the slightest with unonism His management
that of benevolent despot retaining the fuedal right
not only Of regulating conditions of employees during work
ing hours, but Of supervising their private life No slave
driver Of old devised half effective scheme to get
product from workmen Ford efficiency which keeps en-
poyes the jump by of moving platforms, endless
belts and other mechanical contrivances.
Ford has cut the week to five days. but provides five
days pay He has cut the wages of employees to SIS
day, leaving the old employees wage at Sc. The five day
week necessaes the employment of several thousand $5
day to do the work done by Sc day who
have had day Topped off their week, saving Ford 81
day for each employed
No labor employer has any objection to five day work
week. II labor IS PLENTIFUL providing the pay Is only Tor
five days What labor proposes five day week with six
days pay Nationwide strikes in progress to force
payment for six day week for five and half days work
and if these strikes won, the next strike will be for
the five day week and six days pay Labor seeks to shorten
hours increase pay and cura production Ford keeps the
eight hour day. the pay and increases production by
eliminating all those who cannot work fast his NOV
ing machinery--and yet labor endorses Ford. '
The printers in the Salem newspapers work "A hours
week for 48 hours pay get dollar day than Fords
old employees and two dollars day than his en-
poyes yet do not any resolutions from labor bodies
endorsing these little business ventures for being prey to
labor rapacty atho the employed make $42 week
against $50 and $24 in Fords we paid plants and have
all the leisure for semprovement that anyone is likely
to employ. y
The five day week is economically unsound and makes
for waste with resultant benefit Two non-workng
days week neither necessity desirable The extra
day is spent in amusement in ideness making the bene
fcary nuisance to himself and society though good
thing fer poohals and resorts The devil always finds
work for idle hands and it is false philosophy that deve
opment and culture depend upon leisure Those who seek
information find and the best informed are usually the
busiest The town loaer is fountain of wisdom o
and leisure destroys more than it creates.
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