The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-04


were paid them before they would
raise hand for their country?
To attempt to pay them may be
offering an unworthy indignity. But
what of the millions and billions that
were offered and paid to the slackers
to get their help in furnishing war
supplies?
Perhaps we must abandon our
theory of patriotism if we pay the
bows an infnitesimal fraction of what
they were worth and meant to us
when world civilization was in dan
ger. But what would we do in anoth-
er world war if our boys were to
stand for the notion that they were
entitled to as much consideration as
the stay-at-homes and slackers and
profteers9
Perhaps bonus would bust Uncle
Sans treasury wide open and stall
all business. But we don't believe it.
We don't believe it would even affect
the revenues of the movies, the filling
stations, the cigar stands, the ice
cream parlors, or the bootleggers.
| We believe if the people of the
United States really felt the gratitude
towards the boys that the president
refers to they would be glad to cut
out slight fraction of their luxuries
and dissipations and ask that the
money be devoted to giving the boys
some semblance of square deal
The Newark Leader.
4. IA "a "a A ~
II HENRY GETTING HUNGRY?
; Last week Detroit news dispatche.
7 said:
coffee employees and executives O.
: the Ford Motor Company will g
/ without their customary two weeks
: vacation this year under an order tina
4 went into effect today.
D about $4,000 men and women ar
q effected.
Beginning today, all Ford office
are to go on a five-day-a-week sched
ule.
"For the next twelve weeks thes
4 Saturdays off for the office employe
are to be in lieu of the summer vaca
+ tions each has received in the pas
n there being twelve working days j
a a two weeks vacation.
Q "If the fve-day week is continue
in force after the end of the twelv
n weeks, the pay of the employe is t
be cut in proportion, they were not
Q fed. Six weeks or so ago the factor
Il employees were put on fve-day basi
f They have never been given vacs
tions
II Henry Ford's view, as expresse
by some of the executives, is that
Q the factories can accomplish the re
n quired production in five days weel
it should not take longer than ths
for the office personnel to supervis
q production.
a Ford has also many times e,
pressed the view that five days
q week is enough for anyone to labor
n With the latter sentence about 8
d per cent of the working people wi
d agree-that is, that five days a wee
is enough for anyone to labor-bl
no SO with a proportionate cut
wages. The reason the average PEI
son labors six days a week for wage
n is because he can't make enough I
q live on in five days.
And so it is with the Ford offie
4 employees. While there has been n
p kick on wages, yet to cut to five day
: with proportionate cut in wages
: going to mean big difference in til
sum total of the pay envelope.
n Isn't the action of Ford in this il
stance little different from til
i usual? Is Henry getting hungry
). Isn't this action likely to effect til
morale of the immense Ford organ
= zation when he says 1--WE want you I
\ try to do the work in five days whic
4 you have taken six days for heret'
+ fore, and if you show us you can d
I'll it you will continue doing so ar
- your wages will be cut accordingly
. Would it be surprising to know tn;
Is the Ford employees shirked lit
bit in this instance and felt justifie
y in doing so-that they were real
" egged on into doing it?
Pa pa IA pa pa
ri LESS WAR AND MORE ROADS
,rI Representative John M. Robinso