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Show A' Peculiar iS6dfir!JbV;3 TAafr 010 a Zrip Forge Worker LooArs l toy Himself di Auto Workers Sound Of f With 174J8H Reasons for Liking Their Jobs Seven ' By MARC X. PARSONS NEA Staff Correspondent .v.' i DETROIT (NEA) In the vast General? Motors building here .dozens of clerks are struggling to analyze 174,854 reasons- why GM .-- employes "like r theirs Jobs. - Those '174,854 , reasons, flooded in. on the- company when It f-.fered f-.fered 5145 prizes in a company-wide company-wide contest: "My Job and Why lUJce It. J.-; -TThe result was so unexpected in magnitude that it exploded, in our lace,', says ; big. grey Harry ; Coen, GM vice president for-em-. ploye relations and a former mass production worker himself. - blasted-the old theories that mass production workers ; the . men and women who repeat over andJoverevery -day .the . same minute job along the automobile assembly lues found no- u per sonal satisfaction in their work, that, they felt they -were Just cogs in an - industrial - machine. : GM" employes found drama in everyday tasks. They like '-to identify? their Jobs "With- the finished fin-ished product of 'the assembly lines. They found . industrial em ployment i meant security and a rood future : for 1 themselves -and their families. They felt the corn- pany treated them fairly and that there, was every chance for promotion. pro-motion. They showed that employes em-ployes appreciated the overall top-management planning ' that keeps diversified GM industries working together. v Levi . Keith, an 84-year-old ex-civil : engineer who . came out of retirement during the War. to 'become a night-shift sweeper at ; Anderson, Ind wrote that he was fmore -contented with -my broom and shovel than I used to be with my tripod and level." -? ;f Thomas B. Anslow, 42, a Flint, Mien., drop forge operator, won xurst Prize. He wrote "A drop forge worker is a pe culiar sort of. a-Joe. He has a tough' Job and he is proud of it. He makes lorgings eight, nine, or ten hours a -shift. After work he makes them in a tavern. He makes them at the. dinner table; In fact he makes them wherever and whenever he can. set anyone to listen. 'and he always makes them better than the other guy. 4 "He is the guy who is always going to quit Just as soon as he gets that 40 or 80 paid for. He gets it paid for O. K. He then hires someone to work It or lets his wife do it. As a rule he nev- 4 M ft I 4 W) v it' - - :.. Li 1 k , 1, -; Winner -Thomas B. Anslow: ;.1He makes fortinrs. ... In a ; tavern . At the dinner table.? quits the forge until old age makes it too tough and when the boss gives him an easy job, he thinks, he is being - pushed around." Neil F. Mahaney, Jr., of the Fisher Body central office, built a case for his part-ownership in General Motors tnrousn bans savings and insurance premiums "Having assumed an indirect ownership of -the business," he wrote, "and having an interest in its profitable operation it is deli-. ruieiy.io my advantage-to aeveiop an understanding of the' policies and purposes of management and to give -considerable thought to means by which I can contribute most. to the. continuing success of the business. .... I have a stake in the .business, the value of which" can be increased by en deavoring to increase the value of my services to the corpor ation.' Such an attitude, Coen be ll ves, hardly indicate that IT. S industrial employes are 'rice for revolution against the American. form of government and the free enterprise system.: - : Among the letters were some that "obviously : were- Insincere. But i in the -vast v majority there was a strong ring of .tuthiV'- 5 . -Lawence- HT. White ' of Ander soru'Ind wrote ;his in the fdrm of a Vine-act piay from real life"' and let his -whole -family - help tell the story " ' - - Chester Danfelser let'his ma chine tell- the story. Tm a big son -of , gun. I "wieigh '50 : tons or more and I'm as complicated and.-,, accurate- a piece, v of ma chinery -as you ever want to see. My operator and I have: been to gether, since the- first day I came tot-the ship. " ; ' Louis F. Kusto of the Fisher Body- plant in Grand - Rapids found-: musie - in- hisrworic '"Tne baler station is about the noisest place in, the whole plant. To the sensitive ears, it's a place to stay away - from as the din ef falling steel is terrifying. Tm in my glory as soon as 1 - can take hold of these controls and feel that 1 am the master; I : am the 'conductor who daily leads hi 'Symphony of &teer and like It." . AnthonyAlubowicz of-Detroit Tranr mission - wrote: fI - have worked, under the pre-war Polish republic. Later, after the war broke out, I worked under the boot-of - the Nazi masters.' For these reasons my job means a lot to me. Mainly because it is in the United States, and what the united' states stands for. Every thins -else is extra and a bonus.1 Mary E. Strasser looked , at it from another angle. "I am seventh generation American, so mine Is "not the appealing story of the immigrant, whose sincere appreciation of his newly found privileges and opportunities in America, makes us realize how truly wonderful are the things we have been taking for granted. C. Wales. Goodwin, a Pontiac employe, summed up the feelings of most of his fellow-workers: . .". . . . Above and beyond all else, I like my job beacuse I am a free man on it - a FREE AMER I C A N WORKINGMAN, fre to go as far. as my ability wil ltake me, free to own a part of the company I work for, and free to speak my mind. What a glorious heritage!" "I was convinced that the prophets of doom had completely complete-ly missed the boat," Coen says. "There is no basic unrest." jump i racics CROwS jCITY, FlaJ Jaa 17 'CttB Seven -cars of the Atlantic Coast Line v Southland, Chicago te Tampa -passenger train,' jumped the tracks. in desolate-swampland eight miles north of here today. injuring -. several ; passenger?.; No one was killed,-; .-';i'-;S't''zt ' The ' accident was in 'an almost inaccessible part of the northwest Florida ;coasUl marshes'A" The bitf -diesel-Dowered-train- running late -was roaring 'south on a .-stralght-away' section of the AGbss maw ;iine. when the last seven car left r.-the . rails-.about This derailment was the seventh train 'accident in the. south in a weeki.v.--.- ;t " r1', , An official announcement -from the 'ACL said a- broken' rail, was believed. o have caused the, acci dents Six, sleepers and a dining car 7. were derailed- the .railroad said". .VV'-V.:-: s Greater Rdti6ns--o r Cease OperatiohslThree Newspapers jay herald : 5 : "t -' H t dam ' 1 ProyaStqke MAN A VU WARD ' Priesthood -meeting, 9:45 a m.; Sunday school, 11 a. m., and sacrament sac-rament meeting, -7 p. m. A representative rep-resentative of the priest quorum will speak in sacrament meeting.. FIFTH; WARD . priesthood meeting, a. , m.; Sunday school, 10 a. m , and sacrament sac-rament meeting, 5:30 p. m, William Wil-liam -S. Spears and Golden Jack- iman Wiu pe main speaRers in sacrament, meeting. Mary . uay will Sing a solo. A special ward choir practice' will be held at 4 .P- m, , SEVENTH WARD Priesthood .meeting, . 9 a. m.t Sunday, school, 10 a. ra., and sacrament -meeting, . 5-Z! p. m. Earnest . L. Whitehead will be main speaker. There will be speeches by an LDS girl and boy. Lois 'Anderson will sing a solo. FIRST WARD Priesthood meeting, 10 a. m.; Sunday school, 11 a. m., and sacrament sac-rament meeting, 7 p.'m. Clark Mildenhalt, teacher, ' and' Sarah Lou Schouldberg will speak! Paul Groneman will be the . main spealcer. TENTH WARD . Priesthood meeting. 8:45 a. m.; Sunday School. 10 a. m., and sacrament meeting, 5:30 p. m Ferrell . Massey will be main speaker in sacrament meeting V late.to PulpPaper Mill ,C lLOS'ANGELES;Juw 17 UiD Reports that ; the v Los Angeles Tunes and two Oregon dailies ere r.egotiatimr- to-bay -the Hawley Pulp and Paper -Milliwere confirmed con-firmed today -by JiasrpubliSher NorniaxrChandlen He said the othe? papers are the .1 CANDIDATE FOR POLICE FORCE UNDER-ARREST v.,-,.. .;- -, 4 . 4 COLUMBUS, 'O UJ! A 2 year-old "Columbus man was aiw rested : at city . prison yesterday' for questioning about' a burglary while he was taking examination to qualify' for the police force. PoftlancV Oregonlafr iarid the- Ore lea Journal u " . v- l-i (NEA Tdepkdtmf " Runt workers, some ox estimated 15,000 who demonstrated at Essen.-. Germany, for larger food allowances, bear sign reading "We want to ; eat so that we can work."' German leaders in the Ruhr, demanding -that coal surpluses be shipped to Holland and Belgium in exchange' for food and that no coal be shipped from Ruhr until food is assured, as-sured, threatened a- general walkout of AfiOOfiOO men. BlocIcBobkirig Aged Indian Pleads With Senate Group To Let Red Man Live White Man's Way of Life By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 0JJ5X V Adam Castillo, an ageless, mild-mannered mild-mannered Indian, -took; the white man's way to travel clear across the country to plead for the white man's way of life. 1 Adam wasn't ramrod- straight and tall like. -the red man in the history books. He was short, . a little guy, a little bald and a little fat. Indeed, he was rattier a pathetic figure as he shed-his .worn coat and tip-toed into -the , senate committee room. '- He begged the committee's par don for taking its valuable time. He said, please, that he wanted to make it clear that he hadn't spent five days and nights sitting up on bus to come to Washington Wash-ington to scalp anybody on Cari toi HilL .His people v had saved their. pennies to send him here, All he wanted to do, he said with a somewhat sheepish grin, was to. send up a few smoke signals. As. president of the Mission In dians some 25 tribes in southern California he had a few words he" wanted tesayV v- :-. The groep; which was willing to listen was a senate 'subcommittee. 'subcom-mittee. It Was assigned to conduct con-duct hearings on two bills-introduced by Sen. Hugh Butler .of Nebraska. One would remove re strictions on property belonging to members of the Hoopa, Mis sion and Sacramento tribes in California and give them com plete citizenship. The other would provide for per-capita distribution distribu-tion of certain funds in' the treasury treas-ury to the credit of the Indians. Adam said a few words off the cuff before he began reading -a prepared statement. He said that the Mission tribes added up to 2,500 Indians in southern California. Cali-fornia. They were very poor, he said. Sometimes they ate "second day bread." Sometimes very little else. Some' Were farmers not very good farmers.. Some painted; others .were carpenters. Their lot was not happy, being wards of the .government Then he adjusted his glasses and. began to jead in a faltering voice. The two bills wexe.fjne as far ' as they went. What the Indian wants, above all else, he said, is his freedom. The Amer ican way of life. Aren't Indians Americans? Adam said and he looked Committee' Chairman Arthur Ar-thur Watkins of Utah right in the jeyer-that his folks back in Cali fornia' .are- smart enough to. tend their own business; -Then lie went into the second bill on the matter kf money and said the Indians sure could. use, what had been ! set aside for them in 1928 but which they never got. Adam looked a little tired. He finished by saying that the Mis sion Indians finally had scraped together' enough to hire a lawyer to tell them what to do. He sighed, took off his spectacles and leaned back- in his chair. Chairman - Watkins said the committee sure . would like to talk to ail the Indians to see how each felt about this freedom busi ness. Sen. Zales Nelson Ecton of Montana spoke up and said, 'Nonsense." 'Non-sense." Did congress send out i subcommittee to talk to all of the slaves before the emancipation? emancipa-tion? Of course not. .Watkins said that he wanted to be fair and square about it, but that a lot of Indians he knew didn't want to work. Ecton said that -was a normal -sort of thing -nneltber. did he... . Adam -begged' the committee's pardon .again. He said all of his people liked to work. He said he knew what the committee Was driving at: Lazy Indians 'living off the taxpayer if they got their freedom. Another committee member , said the situation?, was awful complicated.'- Some 'smart wnneman,hei said, might own the whole reservation , in six months if the - government .didn't keep, .hand in. And now. about such things as water rights?- Adam im mm m summ 'VI' r . . I . ' - ; - ft ay r TiTMBSBsssaBssssBssssssaaaMaassssLi . m -' - "- . ' -. "r v ' -, ' AU-6TEEL DUILDIUGS ATflQiV-COCT r V AdataMe td btthdrecU- of farmend '.' - industrial uses; Striri-Stecl "Quon- jset DOiiaints u-e niiing a areaauy m purpxW AfrnjctW '. . ';; . Available in variety of sizes,:" Quonsett are framed with . 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The play, a three-act mystery drama, was written by Mary Roberts Rob-erts Rinehart and Avery Hop-wood. Hop-wood. Built on character portrayals, portray-als, t h e play had the -longest Broadway - run of-- any mystery play, Dr.- Pardoe said. Mr. Williams, who joined the staff last quarter after wide, experience ex-perience in teaching and dramatic coaching in high schools of the state, will -make his debut in drama dra-ma directorship at BYU With this play. Fight Renewed CHICAGO, Jan. 17 (U.R) The Jackson Park Theater corpora tion 'renewed' its block-booking battle with seven major motion picture producers and distributors distribu-tors today. The theater filed suit in U. S. district court asking that the firms , be cited for contempt of court for failure to a previous decision which broke up the block-booking system. The suit named RKO, Loews, Inc., Paramount Pictures, 20th Century JFox, Vitagraph, Balaban lend Katz, and three Warner Bros. corporations. The suit claimed the theater was charged excessive prices for films and was delayed in obtaining obtain-ing them. The suit charged that the Chicago Chi-cago manager of 20th Century Fox refused to release a picture to the Jackson Park theater im- w ELECTRIC RAZORS FOR THE CUSTOMERS , STAMFORD, Conn. (U.R) Restaurateur Res-taurateur Robert Lehder said today to-day that he has arranged to.have electric razors installed at' his bar so that -patrons-can shave them selves. "No more excuses about gulping down, the last drink and running home for a shave," he said. begged '- the committee's pardon again and said the Indian wasn't so dumb. He could still find his way to the old water hole when be was thirsty. . S. ROCEC WOOL CO. 160 SOUraiKp EAST 213 OLflCMTOnE Britain, France ... Agree to Delay Of Conference LONDON, Jan. 17 U.R) Britain and France agreed today to put off a meeting of the 16-nation ' Eur opean Marshall plan, conference until "more definite decisions" come from Washington .but an nounced they would consult oth er countries to. "take, stock" of results so far. A joint announcement of the ?ction was issued in London and 'aris following recent British- French talks originally intended to consider calling the Marshall plan countries together again.- " "So'Sicpb a'Dpy Ccn Opcrcto Tfi:a -it. i- t T 1 rot mi v;mrsal i - i-' sU t mediately after it had finished its run at a downtown theater. The Jacksori Park theater quot-1 1 AfUL . 1 P eu uc uiu weniury rox executive execu-tive saying that he -. wanted to find out what the courts would do if he violated the Injunction under which the. booking system was broken up. 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