Show WORKERS OF DETROIT Ten 3 sears ears ago eo Henry Ford a minimum stage age of at 5 and since then Detroit has his gone cone for for- rorI forI forssard ward or-ward I ard wl h unequaled A financial Journal reviewing the I history ot of the wage age ago Increase says sayi I When the Ford 5 day was es- es In 1914 man mani Detroit manufacturers w ere stere re see verv bitter er i against a rord Ford The motor king kinc stas I tar far I ar more popular throughout the country c than at home manufacturers manufacturer were confronted not o only with Ith the of oC o almost doubling d wages stages ages but steadily falling failing rord Ford car prices made a II two told fold b burden to overcome In one way a and nd another the other motor plants Cound f a way out Se Several eral adopted d piecework ark and nearl near all provided a II bonus It was not long bug before t the he efficient Packard worker stocker for example found under that corn com Il pany's bonus plan that he be could make just as much money as at l Ford tord B s Some made mide larger ages e wae ages When hen the Ford 6 minimum n a as announced after the be war January ry 1 I 1919 there was as scarcely a ripple i In n the ment offices at the othet plants Man IliaD workers stere ere already making 6 a day and the tho t 10 concomitants of c high wages T had hadi begun to make themselves evident nt o on n all sides tides The laborer had be be- be beCome come a specialist In la one or other of the many minor operations of at automobile manufacturing He lie had become by that time an automobile owner oven even though his car stas as 3 often a second secondhand hand affair High wage ages n ages banished the tene ieee- ei ment meets or more propel I ly pre presented prevent t the he building of ot tenements tenement or e esen een en the formation of at anything might be termed a residence section Out ot at married men ot of o the v who work at the Ford plants neally neaily h halt half live outside the city limits In their theiron thi own eye homes home Some drive from as a away points as a Ann Anti Arbor to River Rouge 31 Si miles m es every day Others live In Mt Clemens 20 u miles Traction lines do not carry one of at the Ford workmen to and from their work stork So great Is I the tho portion of ot dally daily travel by automo automobile bile or bus bu that during the last street car strike nearly every plant continued In lull full operation Over Ov I night there were stere ere in service several hundred factory tru trucks which supplanted the traction It ha has been estimated by engIneers tha that Detroit would need n 1100 miles of traction line lInes in ad dillon to the existing miles If all the Detroit factory workers were store ere to be carried by street cars Well ell paid workmen build cities Their money mon y goes toca Into e every ery lIne ol of business and when hen they hey have a goodAt surplus of o funds business Is good J At the foundation of at o a a city that Is Isto Isto to enjoy life lite must mut be wage earners r who ha ba have hae e something more than a I bare abare existence n |