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Show FORD COMPANY'S IRK IS UPLIFT Local Distributor Tells of Spirit That Rules in Big Factory. 1 That it not alone is the treatment of material and machinery that has brought the Ford Motor company to its present position, but also the treatment of men, is the assertion of Emerald Hansen, manager of the Hansen Auto company, local Ford distributor. Mr. Hansen has just received an illuminating illuminat-ing account of tho activities of the Ford department of education, beautifully beauti-fully illustrated. Ho declares it to be as interesting a narrative as any romance. ro-mance. Mr. Hansen commented on the work being done for employees as follows: "Tho Ford Motor company is not building its cars at the expense of its workmen. The crowning glory of its achievement is . that success has been built upon constructive, not dcstrictive, methods. Hand in hand with the building build-ing up of its business has gone the building up of men. Today Ford men constitute not only the largest body of workmen in the world employed in ono place, but, because of their relations rela-tions to the company and the conditions condi-tions under which they work, they are the most interesting body of workmen iu the world. '.'Neither tho usual way of making automobiles nor the usual way of dealing, deal-ing, with meu was good enough for the .Ford ilotor company,- It was usual once to light a candle with which to go to bed with a twisted paper lighter. It was usual to travel with oxcarts. It was usual once to build automobiles with two cylinders and a door in tlie middle of the back seat. Those are bygone by-gone days. "It was usual to hire 40,000 men a rear in order to maintain a working force of 10,000. That was in 1913, the year before profit, sharing started. Tn that year, with an average workiug Force of K1.G32, tho number of employees em-ployees Whq left the Ford plant was 50,448. W; n'i profit sharing was three ynsrs old there,, was a working force of 40,903, and the number of men leaving the employed of the company for all reasons during that yenr was 7,il2. At the old usual rate, the t number would have been over 150. 000." The outstanding features of tho Ford working plan are, according to Mr. Hansen: Han-sen: An eight-hour workiug dav, a share in the profits added regularly to the wages in the pay envelope, workiug 'nnditious that promote the health, i-afety and comfort, of workers; steady employment through the removal of the power of discharge from foremen; a department of education, with legal and medical bureaus, devoted to the rare and protection of tho meu in all their interests. |