Evening star., 1933-09-28
FORD announces
NEW WORK PLAN
ShutdoWns to Cut Average
to 35 Hours Weekly,
Officials Say.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, September 28-OficiaIs
Of the Ford Motor Co. today said the
plant will be operated on a five-day,
40-hour week, with q complete shut
down several days each month to bring
the average down to the 35 hours
prescribed by the N. R. A. automobile
code which the company has not signed.
The officials said it was planned
originally to operate the plant on a
4-day. 32-hour basis. followed later by
period Of 5-day, 40-hour operation
to bring the average to IS hours week.
That plan, officials said, has been
abandoned
Job Registration Halted.
Onicials declined to comment on the
closing of the Ford assembly plant at
Chester. Pa, beyond stating that be-
cause Of the closely interlocking nature
Of all production units in such plant
the absence of a few key men is likely
to result in cessation of all operations.
They said they knew nothing of a SYM
pathy walkout' of 500 employees in their
Edgewater, N. j., plant.
Registration of World War veterans
for the 5000 jobs offered by the Ford
company was suspended In Detroit until
OCTOBER 16, after Rex Humphrey COM
mander OF the Wayne County Detroit)
Legion Council, said more men were
being sent to the plant than could be
properly examined by employment
officials
Humphrey said that out Of 5000 men
questioned by legion officials. $500 al
ready have been sent to the plant.
Compliance Board to Meet.
The Dearborn N. r. A. Compliance
Board tonight will hold its first meeting
since organization was perfected, and
at that time 1t is expected to receive
several hundred complaints which N.
r. A. ofncials said have been made by
former Ford employees who claimed
they were dismissed to make way for
the newly hired veterans. The Com
pliance Board, however, has been in
structed to refer all such complaints
to Washington, and board members
have said their only action in the mat
ter will be to survey the complaints to
determine whether they believe them to
be valid. Those decided to be valid will
be referred to Washington without COM
ment. they indicated.
The Ford Co. has denied that any
employees have been dismissed to make
way for the veterans being hired.
Oficials have stated that the hiring of
the 5000 veterans. when completed. will
bring the local Ford employment roster
to $4,000.
Seek to End Tool Strike.
The Detroit n R. A. Compliance
Board hoped to jlretch q point, con-
solidate labor trounles In Detroit, Flint
and Pontiac automotive plants and set
tie strikes involving several thousand
tool and die makers.
Abner E. Larned, chairman Of the
committee, who was told by the strikers
last night they wished the strikes In
the three cities considered as one prob
lem, said employers from the three
cities would be called into conference
during the day.
Virtually all automobile plants in the
three cities are affected, directly or
indirectly, by the strikes, in which the
men seek recognition Of the Mechanics
Educational Society, higher wages and
fewer working hours.
c. c. Richard. president Of the Auto
motive Tool and Die Manufacturers
Association, said he had been trying
to get wage rates established in Wash
ington for skilled labor