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Show mm ikes GOOD GJTIZENS Influence at Big- Plant is for Loyalty, Says Company Official. "Every foreign-born workman speaking English and no man without his first papers pa-pers by 1921." This is the aim of the Goodyear Tire fc Rubber company in its J Americanization program, according to T. j B. Trent,, manager of the .Salt Lake i branch. This company has long known and recognized that Americanization is one of the. greatest factors in preventing industrial unrest, Bolshevism, unemployment unemploy-ment and misunderstandings between employer em-ployer and employee. This company is making preat effort to educate i.s alien workmen to understand under-stand our language, customs and living conditions to show them that Just so long as they negiect to learn our language, lan-guage, live in unclean surroundings and below the American standard of living, just so long will they fail to attain tlie respect of their Anicrican-born fellow, wo rkmen. The instnnnenLality -which the company is offering to these alien workers to perfect per-fect thorn selves is the Goodyear factory I school, which is more and more attaining i the proportions of a university. An elaborate elab-orate school program" Is being carried out in which aliens are taught to read, write and speak English. I Respond to Encouragement. These workmen are making an honest ; effort -to learn the language of their ; adapted country and will become good citizens of the republic. Many who had formerly questioned the advantages of speaking our tongue have greatly advanced ad-vanced themselves In many ways. At present sixty-one classes are receiving receiv-ing instruction each week. The entire course consists of 250 hours of classroom class-room work in three grades. The first grade teaches conversational English; the second, history and eovernmnnt, and the third, the ideals of Americanization. Advancement depends, of course, upon ability, for as soon as a man is suf-! suf-! ficiently advanced he Is transferred to the , nex t higher class. But Americanization ' work at Goodyear is by no means limited 1 to factory schools. It embraces a de-; de-; partment where the employee may secure : expert legal advire without cost. A housing- bureau provides for proper and suitable suit-able living conditions. A complaint department de-partment is available for ironing out mis-, mis-, understandings. A suggestion committee provides rewards to workmen making ; valuable s:ip,gestiuns affecting policy and product. ! Hospitals and free dispensaries with j free atendance of doctors and nurses at-I at-I tend to physical ailments. A cafeteria furnishes meals at cost. A modern and thoroughly equipped gymnasium and an athletic field furnish ample opportunity ! for following all athletic inclinations. 1 If sick- or injured, he is taken care of ; by the relief association. If dissatisfied ! wi th his work, remedial iff vest i cat ion is , made into conditions giving cause for tlV . dis'-aiisfrietion. The Goodyear rompanr can refer with I pride to the broad scope of its Amer-I Amer-I ir-a nidation work,' If success Is evidence,! evi-dence,! by thn t intangible, yet binding, comradeship Goodyear spirit which has piayed so largj a part in that institution's institu-tion's growth. |