Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-16 | Page 16 | Quit Talk About Dry Statute, Demands Ford; Says It's Enforceable

i Quit T Talk aIk About Dry Statute Demands Ford f l Says Its It's Enforceable penic Automatic Machin Machin- I err cry Brings P Pf Permanent I f Unemployment It Hinry nr Ford in the following to Morris Morri d de M w granted K H Tracy tells tell of great grut tk which are are- affecting thing ng 55 c world The Theer and all the tho of mass production on er denies th thAt scale eale he 4 huge huso 5 of of automatic tic machinery results in n any pertI per- per r Sit unemployment People tI J from the leson leuon learned a market crash erah Ford be be- tt tock tI i t And he wl wishes he they t would stop talking about pro pro- t 11 I hib Of course It CA can n be beu u ei enforced he says L MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY I 8 Kited Pre Press Staff Correspondent t f 2 10 JO 31 in All AJI countries W th the thC United Press b ri by 5 TORT ORT MYERS Fla FIL F Feb b. b 1 15 1 r. r Ford a 1 great relt changes in inI Henr for the people of or tho w world I In general md of 0 tho United States b t. t tl th Increased He belieVes CS I In- In t t tI Ct of ot automatic un unemployment will wUI s. s 11 I of or causing of or labor t r the standard r Second He feels that many p peo- peo o- o lesson on In p 4 6 M have learned a 3 of or stoc market speculation C. C i era n fictitious created He Hi ts it Il only ny l to havo ha them lcm crumble f business conduct will rolI folI fol- fol t Ut SC I tor oll Ife Ue Ite I Is III confident that pro- pro Dillon lIlon wilt will b be he increasingly en- en ree fc-ree and alcohol will become an 10 only eliminating t commodity f in all aU lt t k let ing what hat he considers a. a curse to d q SEES READJUSTMENT In the tho He curth He Sees scales to European wages of or t. t 7 American standards standards-a. a movement mo through his hla f foreign he e l Is II pione pioneering s an eventual t r readjustment ment j f foreign exchange values on an ul instead of ot an artificial basis in Lad and better standards tho world over o L I Ford discussed these and other i Ins with the United Press cori cor- cor t aa we e l sat pat at in his mo modest modestI 1 i I workshop and office at his winter tone lone here I kmit is all this discussion 1 about bou t automatic machinery and md who is It S out o of wor work 7 Ford v 1 d It Is Just something to toi i talk bout and it is not throwing people out of work To ro b begin ln with not everything e r. r h Mn ran b bo done with automatic ma- ma 0 In our factory factor there are Kitty ran n many processes that cannot be e i done that a way I Then this Is what happens When 1 an autom tic machine Is pinned It Jl requires men to design it and man many more moro to build It It r requires others to keep It In re reC re- re C pair r And they In turn arc are tho the MOBS fellows who 1St see ete how to improve It H I I and so M o more men arc ire required toI to I n ke U tha improvements CREATES DEMAND I I Wh t automatic machinery does doest I t i S. S t to ts replace Operators of or machines I tot but In Ia turn it Jt creates a demand for ft more highly men to build lie te ma machine and the men who ho ero ro operators become builders Tte te result rosult is that it raises labor tG o a a. higher plane gives labor labord d tre uter reater ter skill l enables the working am tn an to earn urn more money moner makes mats mass production and through mass prod production reduces I J e price of 01 a commodity so more people fI can h have he e It It L L In In that way it works ork In a t great chain and to the 0 good or of 4 rh The discussion turned to the Clock market and Its collapse Stocks mean nothing to to tom m me ford rord emphasized but hut there ther is this tout snout th lh the tock stock market markH collapse of or wt lat tar p Earned larnod a lc losson on Thy rut put their time their thell money h Lad theIr n ir energy Into it and found it tl M just juet a 11 bubble They didn't reate ate anything and so so O. O really tt kt they lo lost t didn't t amount to But Brt now noVo th they have found out W Sit V t happ hane OI and mas ml b be t th ii cy y wont won't try that again It probably dl did a. a lot of oC good and will t make for tor saner bu business in Iii th future J Ford ord is s M firmly Ol oi opposed to al alcohol alcohol al- al cohol a as IlS he ever v was a ag I AGAINST CHANGE My Iy fy only thought on the liquor question is that the tho present law should not bO changed in an any way he said eaid Of oc course it Jt can be c en enforced en- en forced It is being enforced more and more People should stop top talking about it and the papers ap n ought to stop agitating agitating agi agi- tating It Jt People wan want t prohibition Our president has mado it clear where he lie stands on the matter It 13 is lIm time to quit talking so 60 much In our factories both hero and abroad we do not stand for men drinking In this country if Jr a manis man manIn In is found drinking we wc even en go BO so far tar us as to discover cr where ho gets eti his liquor and lay the tho matter be before be be- fore forC the tho enforcement authorities Ve We e have ha their complete to cO cooperation lion tion and nd the they go after the seller rOt r. r Of Ot Of course employing us as many m men n as at w wo do we have havo come eom trouble trouble trou trou- bl ble but it is Js negligible In our OUt factories abroad even thou though h liquor is sold legally in those e countries vo wo demand non- non drinking men And we get Set them Take In Ireland for Instance We with there e have no trouble liquor and our rules n against It do not in interfere interfere interfere in- in with our labor supply In the least We could get ct n. n t hundred thou thousand elS wo VO could get a a. million mil mit- lion Irishmen any time w so o 0 wanted t th them I u em ln GOOD WORKMEN And speaking p of or the Irishmen they are mighty good workmen It was vas then that the con conversa conversation tion tur turned td to Europ European an wage scales and allied subjects Wo 4 tr try to determine said Ford what pay in the money of another country equals In purchasing s ing power th day a minimum wage scale ft WO 0 o ha in this countr coun coun- tr try When then we have determined that It becomes our minimum wage for or that country Our wage paid abroad has no r relation whatever er to the tho exchange rates which tho the bankers bankers bank bank- ers era Us use Those rates are entirely artificial and will bo be torn down The ba basis basl of oC value alue Is la what can a a. aman man buy with the tile mone money ho gets geto for ot his work and it t. t is on that basis that we N pay py him That Thatis I. I the r real rai 31 measure of or the American dollar In the currency of ot another n try In Ireland for Instance we find that a wage waso of or something more than a a. pound a a. day gives I cs our QUI Irish h CE d d. purchasing pow power r equal to of our American who have hwo a a. minimum wage of ot H 7 a a. d day Jr So that Is what we wo fla pay In And nd that is what whal 6 seven en American merIcan dollars dollus are worth in Ireland Ire Irelands lands land's lands land s money WAXES ENTHUS' ENTHUS ENTHUSIASTIC TIC Asked about the prO prospects p fo tot for his Irl Irish h and factories Ford ILS as enthusiastic Wo Vo Wo find thud certain advantages d in manufacturing tractors tractor's in Ireland ho said and eo so we e have o been 1115 Ine them there and have hare shipped d many of or them to this country countr for lor sJ sil sale It lb He now nOt has a a. lar large plant under construction In la l lJ 1 and hit hiu representative rep rep- res e after fur surveying ln the South American n field arc working out for a a. South American factory factor Its location has luis not been ben determined deter deter- mined d. d Ford oord p said ld There Thero are arc any factors to be considered Including not only markets and faculties facilities s for manufacturing but the isolation of one e S South American CJ from ther Ford ph philosophized cd a a. bit upon some some- uin 1110 o of tho the developments of 0 the future With facilities for the dl distribution lion tion d t po yer po r ud J-ud ud with i It l he and rapid lr transportation p p he lie i clUes cities will Spread pr d put oUt mo more and mOn off ul ui n C can ciui I o ha more ground around ther homes they the Wont Won't be bo FO so cramped Cities CHles better r top step piling up UJ their sky ky rs an anyway E Everyone knows known tho the Interior of ot tin the earth 1 II pl tlC Its It's possible to ge get too o oro oO ro much ch w weight upon UlO th he surface It Its It's bound to make a Il dent Maybe it will be only hill half an inch bin It might t b bo serious put ut the trend is to the suburbs Js I find and It will continue to 10 spread out tho thes ho CItI cIties 8 farther r and tind fath father r. r A Al Already rell ready we have o ao at De Dearborn men nuen for fr us hO IlVo lo t twenty enty an and thirty n awaY nY and d th they Y can drive to work in half an au hour hour- tt It used to take them of oC an n hour orf th tile street car cars So they save tJ h half IC nn an hour a Ony da nr and that time lime IK iu their own to do with withas as qs they pl please a c. c