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Show FORD WORKMEN IMPOSTS Loss of Bonus Causes Many to Leave, Official Tells Wage Board rHIACO, Nov 23. Testlmouy that only when laborers lived In reasonable i omfort and with a happy frame of mmd as a background eouid efficient labor be expected, was Introduced p pat km; house employes before Federal .lodge Samuel Alschuler in the packers' pack-ers' employes wage hearing this morning. morn-ing. Wages and living conditions at the Detroit Ford plant were deocrtbed b S- S. Martinis, director of the. educational edu-cational department of the Ford 5Iotor com pa nj Mr. Marquis teetlfied thai G.ooo menj 12 per cent of tho Detroit lori-e J had ptit work in the lost' nlnely days and had not been replaced. lie said that all Ford employes were hired on i minimum wage scale with added bonus from the company's profits Questioning by Judge Alschuler brought out testimony that recent reductions re-ductions In the price of Ford curt had . ut down profits to the p Int where. ,Mr Marquis declared, the bonus to employed has practically been cut off. ' All Industry, cannot stand n minimum mini-mum wage grille," Mr. .Marquis de- j. I. iie.i. i consider the minimum rate a snare and u delusion. The main .thing Is to pay the laborer a sufficient amount lo permit him to live in reoSg onable comfort, to go to work in a reasonably happy frame of mind." This afternoon further testimony iv present''. I In til.' pa. kei intende.l to show a loWfr lev'l in the retail cost of living. The hearing was expected 'to end today. oo |