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New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
THE PRUNING PROCESS

THE PRUNING PROCESS
 The pruning commi'tco of the. board Of finance and taxation, huy- Ing given its report to thc full board. now rests from its labors Having s)ashrI $5i&giO from de- partmental estimates. and kept the outlay down 10 thr confines of the present tax rate of -$ 3-l mills, citizens have an opportunity 10 ap- prove or disapproyr.
 or course, keeping lhn tax rate stationary is something of feat in these days of mounting municipal expenditures. Nobody likes 10 see the tax rate increase, although there are times when such things happen, The raonrssa admmislra- ton is doing all it can 10 prevent an increase this year,
 It was apparent for some days that some Of inc departments which requested increased appropriations would be disappointed. Just which departments would be disappointed most remained 10 bo seen; and in- dccd, if is not yet entirely settled. According 10 our system of govern ment, the full board of finance and taxation and the Common Council have considerable powers in the matter; the work of the pruning committee in reality is in the naIur" of a rough draft, although if has been found most convenient in the past not 10 make radical changes rom this report.
 The permanent paving prospects Of the city at first glance look slightly dimmcr but thorc is a sol ace in thc prospect that there will be approximately thc samc amount of permanent paving done the con- ing year as was done last year. When it is considered that tn" work done in 1925 included such import ant permanent paving as on Elm and Stanley streets, Hartford ave nuc and on Myrtle street. it is clear that if tho work in 1926 is of equal dimensions there will be consider able new work finished in the city. Indeed, the most important work in years, the rcpaying of West Main street, may still be accomplished, although it was estimated 10 cost S90,000. The announcement that this improvement was 10 be at tempted created much approval. l' it is the intention 10 forcgo it this year not much satisfaction will be felt about it. Ii is still 10 be hoped that the West Main street improve HlEnJ VIII bt HlN'.N iiiI l'SHN VI "'J this year, and enough money should be appropriated to insure its accom- plishmcnt.
 The pruning committee included in its appropriatton the addition Of five moro policemen 10 the permm- ent police force, instead Of 5 oddi' nonul policemen, as had bcon snG- gestcd by the police department. On the theory that five additional lo- liccmcn will bo better than no addi- tional patrolmcn the situation will be that much improved. The n"" policemen at lraer will prove "rI. come addition ro th. force and may have the effect ot giving better DO. lIco protection in sections oi 'u' city thai ha,, had cause to com plain on this seor". II is probah" tha, inc police force will be m creased gradually; ' all events like cvcr>thmg cls'. if will have t' keep porr with the growth of 'A' city.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

Automobile owners who left their cars in lhe family garage during the snowstorm sometimes are among the first to find fault with the car and bus services.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
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New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

Mrs. Cuylcr; "Wh0t is your son doing?" -. Hostess: "Ho is studying sanita- tion.'
 Mrs. Cuyler: "You don't say! And what sanitarium is he attending?'
 G l.. Schneider.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
Just Think of it, Folks!

He's slim of waist, he's sleek of hair, With uzz performances he's
 THERE. Aromd his feet his trousers flap, l|ut he's someone's Valentine, that
 chap!
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
Membt, Aaal nnrenu Ol llrcnlntLon.

Tho A, B. c. tt nRtiopal organization whic. furnishes newspa pers and adver' tisers with A strictly hnuest annlysit Of circulation. OW circulation siaiistfct are based upon this nudu Thls tasurcs protection against fraud In ncwsparei distribution figures to both national and local advertisers
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
The Card ShArn

Anita: "I7or Valentines Day l am going to send my boy friend a pretty card with two hearts on it."
 Dorothy; "Thc deuce, yon saw"
 Emily Hudspaeth.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
saves Her W ork

Mrs, re"srs; You say your cook Is lazy"
 Mrs. Wiley: "Yrs; she sets the po- la10ns out in the sun so that they will grt sun-hurncd and peel"
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

The Fernld p on sale daily ln New York al llo'aling's Newsstand. Tmet Square; schultz'- NoWsstnndt Entrance Grand Central, l9ud Street.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

The best intelligence test We know of is to look at a map of New Britain and find your bearings in d hurry,
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
IN KLASS AT KEAZY KOLLEGE
 (CnndnCtcd by Gcrtrude)

Teacher:
 'Scimitar' is the word, Mr, Pres cnt. Let's go!" Iz2y Present: My optirian he makes me stylish Wit lenses like merry -go-rounds
 rings, From tortoise shells they may he
 vet, But cant scimitar doggonc
 things"
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
'T,nF11fr

Teacher:
 Miss Know. I understand that ,ou English W men are not inter. cstcd in politics as a class Just why please. using the word average. '' Ida Know: ."Politics may 70 10 the bloom.n
 ioES But woman will simply not vote As long as she as 10 register, For to average told gets 'er goat"
 o. F. Liebeskinde,
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

The only profitable advertising medium tn the City Cifcu'Hfiop books and pres room always open 10 advortisers
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

SUGGESTED SONG HIT I Know My Swccthcarts a Live
 Wire Get Kick Every Time I Kiss Her.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
\ VALENTINE FOR MY CAPTAIN From IIcartroubic, The Bobbcd- Hair
 Bandit

1 Dear cap;
 I've travelled up and down Tine business section of this town
 In an endcavor To find for you a Valentine; Not ono that is too supcrfine-- Jus, cute and clever.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
New Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY

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New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
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send all communications to iun shop i.lliiOr care oi the New Britain Herald and y0ur letter will Inc turwaIdcd 10 New York
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

TELEPHONE CALLS
 BuEiucss tfTiCE .,,, p2S Editorial ftnOmt ,,., gs6
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

Though I have looked in every place From greeting cards to ones with
 lace,
 It does not happen That | have found one that is quite Tho very thing l think is right
 To send My Cap'n. I've looked until I'm almost blind, And yct I cannot seem 10 find,
 With all my running, Tho kind I want, which ought to be Like ones that you have sent 10
 Discreet. and cunning! So I've decided, for your sake. Since I'm determined not 10 take
 What clerks would sell me, To sond book of stamps today So. you can write each night, and
 say
 How much you love me,
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

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New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

If only umpires would give their eyes q little spring training.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

Entered A the Post OTiee ni Sew Britain
 as second Cla.s Maj Matter.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

Correct this sentence; "'Janr ia very old-maidish and stiff,' said the woman. "but the boys seem 10 en- joy being with her"
 TrotccteI by Publishers Syndicatc)
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
Natural Query

How much you love mel
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

We can remember how Dad han died the situation when we were fourteen, but t wasn't called Factsm then.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
FORD FIVE-DAY WEEK MANEUVER
DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH FIGHT
OF WORKERS AND A. F. OF L. MEET

the automobile workers. that "oflcialS
strikes are not the only possible
strikes. The company concluded also
from the Passaic strike that the Amer
lean Federation of Labor is capable
of recognizing and adopting found
ling 'illegitimate" strike, placed on
its doorstep by Necessity's forlorn
outcast daughter, the Black Eve of
Desperation.
And the British miners strike fol-
lowed by the general strike stimulated
the imagination and potential class
consciousness of 100000 Ford work
ers as nothing else has ever done.
Workers Feel History.
Face to face in their own lives with
what we call history, officers of the
British Trades Union Congress. were
afraid. They found history was some
thing they could not shut between
the covers of a book, not excepting
the book of the minutes of their de-
liberations Afraid of the general
strike and Of history, they capitu-
AobCht koAAln6 oil vi AlCdl Dl Aldlu
proletariat except the miners back to
the machines-officers begging the
king and the powerful industrialists
and Punch, M. p, and the Earl Of
Judy to wash the discriminating SCOT
Of the coal mines from their faces.
But the Ford workers understood this
kind of history and felt it had some
thing fundamental to do with them.
The sale of The DAILY WORKER at
the Ford gates doubled in day. The
physicians" in the examining" and
first aid rooms of the Ford Motor
Co. always have their fingers on the
pulse Of the workers. And the stetho-
scope showed a quickened heart beat.
The "Ford Worker
The news Of the Passaic strike and
the British strike were world news
that could be read In prejudiced
light in the capitalist press from day
to day. But this kind of news has
been communicated to the Ford work
ers this summer and fall in a light
that is new to the Ford shops, the
clear light of class struggle, class
awareness. The new version has been
communicated not only by The DAILY
WORKER, but by the Ford Worker,
to which many of the rank and file
workers have contributed. 1t is pub
lished by the Ford nuclei Of the Work
ers (Communist) Party In spite Of
interference by the police of Highland
Park and Fordson and by Ford Motor
Co. guards, nearly 10000 of the last
issue of the Ford Worker were sold at
the factory gates for cent apiece.
Thus are there now only FIVE days in
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
Comrades in Boston
Doing Their Bit to
Save Daily Worker

BOSTON, Oct. 6.-The following
appeal was issued to the Lettish Party
faction in Boston:
Responding to the present emerg-
ency OF The DAILY WORKER, the
comrades of the Boston Lettish Fract-
ION are rushing their bit Of support.
Enclosed please find a check for 500
az a contribution from the Lettish
comrades of Boston. We pledge our
selves to work hard during the COM
ing days and to raise more funds for
our DAILY WORKER. for this is the
very first and foremost duty OF every
. comrade at the present time - TO
SAVE THE DAILY WORKER AND
KEEP THE DAILY WORKER ALIVE
for the revolutionary movement. All
together. comrades: All for the
DAILY WORKER. The Lettish com
rades Of Boston will do their share to
the best of their ability.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
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day week at the Ford Motor Co.? Re
member, first it was IS day, and
now it is five days a week.
In the first place, continuous strug-
gle on the part Of organized labor in
all industries has brought the skilled
worker in a few instances within
reaching distance of the Ford stand
ard and in some instances has carried
him beyond it. The flve-day week is
now demanded as labors next adj
vance in the slogans of the vanguard
of the American labor movement.
No Longer Safe.
The militant union furriers of New
York have already won a 40-hour or
fve-day week and more pay. The
Ford $5-a;day wage has been advanced
to Sc day. But the $6-a-day wage
alone would no longer safeguard the
Ford Motor Co. from dangerously sug-
gestive comments on the benefits to
the workers of trade unions.
The annual convention Of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor is meeting
this year in Detroit, the center of the
automotive industry. For two years
it has been mildly suggested in the
councils of the A. F. Of L, that the
automobile industry is open-shop and
should be looked into from an organi-
cation point Of view. In the report
this year to the metal trades depart
ment of the A. F. of l., President
.O'Connell recommends that the atten-
ton of the A. r. of L. convention be
called not to the desirability but the
necessity" of organizing the automo-
bile industry. In announcing a Ave
day week the Ford Motor Co. is meet
ing union labor's newest threat.
The Ford Motor Co., moreover,
found it fortunately convenient at this
time to shut down to five days week
because of reduction in it's orders,
continuous since last spring. The
company was forced either to adopt
a five-day week or to lay off perma-
nently large number of men. The
organization experts of the Ford Mo-
tor Co. thus killed two birds with one
stone.
Experimentation with the hve-day
week began several months ago, and
the schedule has been gradually ex-
tended turnout all departments, so
that to men in the Ford shops this is
an old story as far as actual practice
is concerned. But the permanent
adoption of a five-day week as COM
pany policy is obviously strategic.
other Factors.
Consider other factors. The strike
of the Passaic textile workers taught
the Ford Motor Co. (and also taught
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
WHY DOES FORD FEAR UNIONS?

fere with good management. On the
contrary, they might help good man
agement-by protecting the worker
from being the creature Of a manage
ment whose chief motive is profit and
cheap production and speed-up. The
best management is that management
under which the worker in the plant
is the first consideration and his well
being the first charge. The only way
that such MANAGEMENT can be assured
is by the worker himself having the
power to dictate these questions affect
ing his well-being.
ITO do this he must organize. He has
4 night to organize. 1t is all he
has. Against the ownership and the
right to hire and fire of the boss his
only strength lies in joining with his
fellows for his own protection. Some
day the Ford plants will be so organ
lied. Henry doesn't like It. But did
you ever hear OF the boss that did
like it?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08

For the first time in its Industrial
career, the Ford Motor Co. is faced
with the most powerful combination
of capital In the world, backed by
Wall Street, which Is competing with
Ford in cheap car production. Here
is the king of Wall Street.
from him. Ford has gotten home the
first blow. He has hit the General
Motors Co. in their weakest spot
production, precisely where Ford is
strongest. This win Immediately give
Ford the pick of the labor market and
assure him a less expensive labor
turnover. At the same time he will
maintain his production level and
when it has become sufficiently sta
biliEed under the new system he will
go about neutrality-suspicious.. There
is also the huge advertising value Of
this "philanthropic" concession to the
workers. 1t is hard for most people
to understand that every time Ford
GIVES his workers something he
takes 1t out of their hides.
THERE is an angleHon the fve-day
L week that outsideio fairly sound
conjecture can only be definitely
known by Ford's engineers them
selves. But here it IS:
When you work men FIVE and half
days week you use five and half
days worth Of equipment. Ford is
now working his men five days a
week. In that time they are produc-
ing as much as they did in five and
half There is thus half day
saved on plant and equipment outlay.
The maintenance is cut down, the
overhead is reduced. It is a distinct
saving to the owner. Thus Ford is
saving money by GIVING his men the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
Speedily Kills Three
Workers Every Hour in
Industry, Says Expert
Especial to The Daily Worker,

ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., Oct. e.
Three workers are killed on an aver
age every hour by industry in the
Unitef States, according to figures
submitted by r. H. Lewinsh Corwin.
director Of Hospital Information Blu
reau of New York.
Corwin gave his statistics to the
2Sth annual convention Of the Amer
lean Hospital Association. Every year
100000 workers are disabled for at
least four weeks, he said. Industrial
accidents are increasing despite en-
ployers' so-called safety campaigns,
Corwin showed
The reasons he gave: general speed.
ing up Of workers; increased number
OF new men taken on after the last
depression; safety work retarted
since war and safety engineers taken
off company payrolls to allow welfare
departments without expert technical
knowledge to handle safety.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08

MANY people read in the daily press
ANl the stories of the fortunes being
made in the automobile industry. Facts
and figures are given to prove it and
is true. How many stop to think
about the many who make the mil
lions for the few?
The automobile industry is not very
old, about twenty-five years, but in
those few years Henry Ford has be-
come one of the richest men in the
world. There are many lesser lights,
but as he is so well known he will
do as an illustration.
Ford Gets The Difference.
EORD'S workers produce the cheap
est car on the market, and for
that reason II no other Henry gets
the reputation of being the greatest
msn in the United States. His car is
cheap, but his enormous fortune was
made on the difference between what
he paid the workers and what he
charged for the car they made.
Ford has made some clever moves
when II comes to getting publicity,
and one of the greatest was when he
made the announcement that all his
employees would be paid FIVE dollars
day. That was an increase to some
but many OF his workers would have
made twice that amount for the same
amount of work In many other shops.
In fact In one trim shop the men work.
ing on Ford work made more then
twice as much as did Ford worker
Did the press say anything about the
six months Ford worker put IN at
$2.73 a day before getting the five o
day?
When Ford announced he would EN-
ploy men who were freed from the
Michigan state prison again he was
given the worlds blessing But, who
would NJ into his prison like system,
better than men who had already been
trained in a prison SCHOOL,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
The Future for Workers in the
Automobile Industry
Head Of the AutomobIe and Aircraft Workers' Union

less Of the amount of his labor, the
auto worker will be a poorly paid
worker. While many other workers
are gaining 40 or a 44-hour week
the auto worker still works 4S and so
hours week as q rule
A few figures will prove some in
teresting facts. In 1924 the General
Motors made over 81 millions and In
1925 they made over lie millions of
dollars. The first half of 1926 was
more then fifty per cent better the
first half of 1925.
The Chrysler made IN 1924 over
millions and in 1925 over II millions
with prospects for a much better profit
in 1926.
On all cars with the exception of
Fords, 40 dollars more on each car
was made in 1925 then in 1924. This
regardless of the fact that every COM
pany was reducing the price of the
car.
THIS will continue as long as the
auto worker thinks he does not
need an organization. Wages in the
trimming department of one of
Fishers plants was $1.25 an hour in
1920. Now.by working a great deal
harder they make dollar an hour at
a pace that kills. In the Packard plant
rs men putting on deck who were paid
70 cents an hour We're fred and 26
men at 81 cents an hour replaced
them. The two mentioned items are
only a small fraction OF what can be
heard Of every day in the city Of
Detroit.
The day for the auto worker to
unite with other workers must be near
at hand, he has been a bear for hard
work and punishment. How much
more he will stand is hard to say, but
with the competition IN the automobile
business getting keener and keener he
win surely get badly handled for he
pays the bills Of the employers
battles .mH
oa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
Most Recent Bunk.

MOST Recent BUNK.
TIME most recent bunk is about the
4 FIVE days work with six days pay.
Men are speeded up, less time allow
ed for their tasks. The conveyers
move faster, for when Ford wants a
little more speed, more production, he
speeds up the conveyers and the men
must move faster. The worker works
five days and he gets paid for just
five days at his old rate per day.
More could be said about Ford and
his system, it would fill a good big
book, but of other automobile firms
a little must be said too.
Most Efficient.
THE automobile industry grew very
l. rapidly, and as it came at a time
when other industries had paved the
way to modern efficiency it took adj
vantage Of the opportunity. SO it be-
came the most efficient and can get
more work out Of a man then any
other industry. Itl needed men and It
paid more than other Industries. That
is, man could earn more money by
having the opportunity to work
harder.
There was little opposition to the
will Of the employers because the in
dustry grew faster than a labor or.
ganization could, and many workers
felt they needed no organization be-
cause they earned as much or more
then they did at their old trade or
line of work. Many OF them were
from farms or small towns and they
not only felt they could stand as in
dividuals, but big town conditions
seemed wonderful TO them. The movie
and the dance hall made life worth
living and they We're young and strong
and could work hard.
48-Hovr Week
DTEoE-woRK prices are cut oyefs
L so often, more work demanded for
the same money. Under task system,
and It will not bq lo1g before. regard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
Ford Gives Fifteen
Minutes for Lunch
CONTINUED from page u

ACOhhAhaNO AAChA ho6N -
clothes or furniture on the installment
plan? Is he going to buy a house?
How is his life insurance? What
company? What kind of car has
he, ETC.. etc.
And although he makes it appear
hat he does all this in the interests
Of the employees, needless to say 1t ia
bunk.
An Attention on Job.
asked the guy that was question
ing me what was the idea OF wanting
to know all about my private affairs.
WELL" he said, when you are
working here, we want all your mind
on the work-1OO per cent-and how
can worker do that If he has other
things on his mind?".
Anyway, those workers that come
to work at Ford's soon find out that
instead of being the best BOSS in the
U. s., Henry Ford is the worst kind
OF a slave-driver possible and the
worlds champion bunk-shooter.