The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-12


Miscellaneous ......... 175.77
about $1O69 per week
The general home that was occupied was
of from four to five rooms in general home
of a typical modern city of the 100 families
Al owned automobiles
SO radios
81 had sewing machines
20 had vacuum cleaners
5 had telephones
had pianos
As had monographs
81 had washing machines
Installment plan purchases were being made
by SO families The money expended on to-
bacco for 50 families for the year was $50. u
and the average expenditure for the movies
for the year was S5.55 Now that the fig
ures are made possible it would be of extreme
Importance if the commissioner of labor could
make similar enquiry into the firms to
whom Ford let his contracts.
1t is generally understood that the Ford
car is made throughout by Ford. Such is not
the case. He has contracts for bodies from
the Briggs and the Murray Body Corporation
paying 40 or so to rs cents per hour. Murray
Body Corporation have within the last few
weeks fired about 420 men who had been get
ting so to rs cents per hour and replaced
them by women getting. on piece work Is to
SO cents an hour.
The conditions there are so bad that it is
stated by the Detroit Federation of Labor that
some of the women can only earn 81 to So per
week.
Ford has contracted out the making of the
generators and the brake band to firms Civ
ing so to 70 cents per hour for 9 to 10
hour day. So much for the policy of Ford's.
Just now to work at Ford's and be a fore
man and not own Ford car is of some con-
sequence. The foremen owning other cars
but Fords shaking in their shoes. En-
or es are beinr T0de : the superintendent
to their respective foremen as to whether or
no they own For1 csr. If they have not,
tley told to get one, me within a few
days; others get a longer period. 1t does not
make any difference to Ford whether the car
the foreman owns is paid for or not.
The foreman must get rid of his car and
substitute it for Ford. None of them have
the CUTS of a louise to make a stand like de-
cent and honorable men and spend their earn
ings just where and how they like. The story
of the conditions in Ford's plant, not that sec
ton where the visitors are taken around,
would be difficult to believe if it could be
expressed Take the foundry where the mo-
tor blocks cast, it is difficult to imagine
how men could stand the conditions there and
keep human. Ford is believer in the theory
that he has lived before and he will live again.
If he has lived before he must have returned
as spawn of he'll, and should he ever come
back it is to be hoped he will return to take
his place with the chain gang fastened to-
gether at Ford's foundry sweating and faint
ing, granding and bleeding, always at his post
and e' year knowing he is getting deeper
and deeper into debt, his expenditures being
$25 more than he can ever earn working $50
days per year. The monster that Ford and
his kind are controlling amassng billions after
billions of dollars, which ever increase and
increase, sharpening the economic crisis and
the war danger and more and more intensity
pressure on the workers. The sentiment and
the thoughts of the worker will COMPEL them
to seek way LION is fpvor-
able. The r must be orr ED.