June 4, 1937 (6 pages)

ov ane Okuo ft sprices would go up NEVADA CITY NUGGET TTS FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1937. DON'T WEAR IRON COLLAR, ADVISES HENRY FORD DETROIT, June 4.—Is there any alliance between the so-called ‘“‘financial interests’? and the labor union? Recent statements made by Henry Ford, and thrown into interviews not specifically taking up this question, have raised the query as to whether he believes there is such an alliance and, if he does believe this, what might be his explanation of it. Today, in an interview, he was asked to go fully into the subject. “In recent statements, Mr. Ford, you have asserted that financial interests are behind the unions and that the purpose of the strikes is to kill competition. Many people do not see this connection and do not understand just what your meaning is. Will you explain fully, and also state your own attitude toward labor unions? : i “Yes,’’ Ford replied,’ and I am glad to explain something every employe, every mechanic, and ‘every one else ought to know. “BEING CORNERED” “They are being told, these days, that a great movement has _ been started to improve their condition. They do not know that it is a movement to get them into a corner where they will have.very little to say about it. But if they understood this movement is one phase of the fight between independent business and financidllycontrolled business, the picture would be clearer to them,” This idea of labor unions and their activities’ as the result of clashing business interests appeared to the interviewer as a new wrinkle in the industrial fabric, and Ford was asked to “‘iron it out.’ “Independent ‘business,’’ ‘ Ford said, ‘‘keeps doing two things that money-controlled business would rather put the ‘brakes on. Independent business creates all the improvements we have in working conditions, and it raises wages not when it must, but when it can. And, of course as long as the independents do this, the other kind of business must keep step. “Without independent competition more money would go into dividends, and less into improvements and wages. Corporation controlled businesses welcome anything that cuts down competition. They also indorse every political scheme that’ limits competition, because it limits wages, too. If it were not for the independents, the others would do. as they please. “ORDERS FROM N. Y.” “The difference between these two types of business is that the independents are free to go ahead when‘ever they can; the others must get their orders from New York. If they want to raise wages five cents an hour, permission must be granted by New York.” . Ford was asked to state some facts or history that would support this last statement. “Ever since the war,’’ he continued, ‘‘two campaigns have been promoted in this country by the finaneial interests of New York—one tn keep wages down, ‘tthe other to put prices up. We know that, because we have been invited in. Ouf business is eriticized because we will not go in with them on such a program. A in this country next week if they could persuade us to join them “If they could get our ‘help to drive workingmen into unions, some wages would immediately start to go down Don’t take my word for it— just watch and see what happens if independent concerns are roped up in this country. “Financial interests in New York have always controlled a large part of American industrial management. But control of management is not enough for them. They must control labor also, else their whole scheme _ failesy*They must have someone who can get the employes under command just as the. managers are. The financial interests cannot do this themselves—that would be too barefaced. “CORNER THE JOBS” “Tt must be done by someone who under one controlling ‘hand. And unde one controlling hand. And what is the quickest way to do that? Simply corner the jobs that men must have. If you say to _ people; ‘You can’t get a job anywhere unless you have a card from me,’ you have immense power—if you can say that. If you say: ‘You can’t get a work card unless you yap for it, and pay, in addition, a monthly rate for the privilege of working,’ you have immense revenue. “A monopoly of jobs in this coun-, try is.just as bad as a monopoly of bread. Sometimes we catch people here in Detroit ‘selling’ jobs at the Ford Motor Co. by making ignorant persons believe they have a ‘pull’ with us. Some men have been swindled out of $25.to $100 for jobs in our factory. This was done by crooks and they ‘were properly dealt with. “ “But, now along comes another group that says: ‘There are 100,000 jobs out at Ford’s. If you want one of them, pay us a registration fee. and so much every month, and we will pass you in, and you can work as long as you pay us.’ This group is asking us to sit still, while it sells our men the jobs that have always been free. If we agreed to this, they would have complete control of American labor, a control no one has ever before had.”’ ° THE CONNECTION “But how does this labor organization of membership fees connect with your assertion that financial interests are batk of it?’”’ Ford was asked. “The connection between finance and strikes—or so-called strikes— is right there,’’ he replied. ‘‘What was the great result of those strikes? Merely that numbers of men have put their neck into an iron collar. I am only trying to show them who owns the collar. Have the me gained anything by their strikes? Nothing. In most cases, even with the small pay raises they received, it will take from 22 months to five years to make up the wages they lost. : E 2 “Read the so-called ‘agreements’ that were reached, and ‘see if you can detect the slightest gain for the men. Labor itself will say that it won little besides ‘‘recognition’.”’ “What.in your opinion, is the meaning of that recognition?’’ Ford was asked, “Simply this,” he replied, ‘the type of management that already wears the New York collar, now agrees to ‘recognize’ the employe who wears the same collar. After that, everything will be nice! A little group of those who control both capital and labor will sit down in New . aimed at men’s wages. I say to them: York and they will ‘Settle prices, and the will settle dividends, and they will settle wages. The mechanic, the skilled factory man, will take what is left. These are his new bosses — not the bosses who pay him wages, but the bosses who make him pay) them. . j COMMON SENSE “T do not believe that the artisans and craftsmen and mechanics and all the ‘useful workers of America can be fooled by this very long. I have worked with them for more than 50 years, and I know they have common sense enough to see the game, and get out of dt. “The Wagner Act is just one of those things that helps to fasten control upon the necks of labor. Labor doesn’t see that yet. It thinks the Wagner Act helps it. All you have to do is to wait and see how it works. It fits perfectly the plans to get control of labor.” “But do you propose to put up stiff opposition to. any group that undertakes to bring your workmen into labor unions?” Ford was ‘asked. “I have never sought to prevent our men from joining a association—religious, racial, pplitical or social,”’ Ford replied. ‘“‘No one who believes. in American freedom would do that. When our men ask about unions, I give them the same advice as when they ask about any of the other schemes that are always being ‘First, figure out for yourself what you are going to get out of it. If you go into a union, they have got you, but what have you got?’ “We think our men ought to consider whether it is necessary for them to pay some outsider every month for the privilege of working, at Ford’s. Or, whether any union can do more for them than we are doing. COULD BUILD FACTORY. “Tf union leaders think they can manage an automobile factory better than we can, and pay ybetter wages under better working conditions than we can, why don’t they build a factory of their own and show us up? They have the capital—they have all the money they need and a lot more: The country: is big; they have ‘the men; and think ofall the union customers they would have! “If the union leaders are sincere, they should go into business themselves. If they thought out a better way to manage business, let them “Of course, the fimancial interests that use strikes as a way to build up unions, would not permit them to build new factories—big, progressive. factories with everything in them that union leaders now, demand. They don’t want that. They want control. I have always made a better bargain for our men than an outsider could. We have never had to bargain against our men, and we don’t expect to begin demonstrate what it is. If they can’t! do that, why do they pretend they can? now. “There is no mystery about the PAGE THREE connection between corporation control and labor control. They are simply the two ends of the same rope. To have one, you have got te have the other. You may say as emphatically as you like, that all this does not disturb me in the least. E know ‘the scheme is wrong, and it will not work. “America is too big for that. But _ I would like to see the little fellow’ escape the game that the big fellows are playing with him. I would like te . see him wake up.’’ : ? quality beers. : Also on draught at your dealer. : Serve Buffalo or Ruhstaller’s Gilt Edge in regular standard bottles, -steinie bottles or in keglined cans . but make sure it is Buffalo or Gilt Edge. They please every taste . meet every standard of fine BUFFALO BREWING CO.—SACRAMENTO _ SIERRA DISTRIBUTING CO., GRASS VALLEY-NEVADA CITY DISTRIBUTORS Don’t Say Beer --Say BUFFALO or GILT EDGE & Stop Striking Matches . . and waiting for water to heat your home. Use a Modern Automatic Gas WATER HEATER F COURSE it isn’t the mere striking of matches that makes the old-fashioned tank type of water heater such a nuisance. It is because someone always has to light the heater. It is because someone always has to wait for the water to heat. Someone has always to remember to turn off the water heater. With an Automatic Gas water heater all this is different. You turn on hot water at the faucet. You learn to take its service for granted, a part of the modern living you enjoy. The first month of service is always a revelation; you wonder how you ever put up with anyother kind of hot water service in For only an»Automatic keeps an abundant supply of water stored hot ready for service at.the turn of a faucet. There is no starting or stopping for anyone to remember. It is quiet, dependable, absolutely carefree. And all this for less cost per gallon of hot water than you pay for your present unsatisfactory hot water service. Judge this automatic service of hot water in your home for yourself; go and see the new Autoa matic Gas water heaters on display in the nearest P. G. and E. office or’at your dealer’s store. Woke up oud Live! On Tap. Hot Water Service SEE YOUR DEALER » t) e @. ¢. SOP OE CEO e Tee eee eC eC OTH ODED ETCH SOT CT ODES * * * PGE: LET Us Put CARTON ees June 4 to June 10 f , ED” # IN YOUR CARS gcounus importer”: @ere . syeur. Qt. jug 33c ~ i) a? “7 @ Cane and Maple (SAT SLEEPY HOLLOW— “ ¥ oN Hull Gallon Tin. $1.17 : JELL WELL. 3 pkgs. ]4c Choice of Flavors #O DEPOSIT POST : BRAN FLAKES. Pkg. ]]c EOPLE who believe in good living, without ex: kg I] : : KELLOGGS travagance, have found in Brown Derby a finer CORN FLAKES Pkg [Vee beer. at no extra cost. RITZ FLAKES Lb. pk. 2]c Many people in America have never ‘become acquainted with : Pilsner, the brew regarded in Europe as ‘the king of beers.” Graham Crackers— Like ‘finest imported Pilsner, Brown Derby is never sweet, never , bitter. It has an irresistible “in-between” taste. A delicate tang alae c. oe cee bb. pkg. 29¢ that leaves-a fresh, clean after-taste. It completely satisfies the thirst. of 24 bottles $1.45 Ee 3 for 25c of 74cm. $1.95 Plus Bottle Deposit 2 for yACS COFFE BE co Jiow cite So EDWARDS DEPENDABLE Chunds@ CAMAY SOAP . Bar §c ALL PURPOSE OF DRIP GRIND dwurds LIFEBUOY PORNO TIN. 25¢ SOAP Bar 6Y/sc 2 Pound Tin .. 49c si SUNBRITE ROMATO SAUCE. CLEANSER ..3 tins ]3¢ Jolly Rogers—8 oz. tin ‘ , ee Deviled Meat .. 6 for 25¢ shanti JUICE ae 3 for 25¢ : mets No. 4 Cans TOMATO SAUCE. 8 ounce tin 4c Tomatoes .... 3 for Del Monte FLOUR KITCHEN. GRAFT. 49 Ibs: $1: Extra Quality All Purpose Flour HARVEST BLOSSOM .. 49 Ibs. $1.63 An All Purpose Family Flour PEAS . Each ](e Evergreen No. 300 Can SHASTA WATER. (Full quart) ]5¢ Plus Deposit : . MAYONNAISE . . Quart 37c Piedmont ‘ SANDWICH SPREAD... Qt. 45c Lunch Box TROCO MARGARINE .. 2 Ibs. 37c MATCHES 6 lge. bxs. ]7¢ Highway Carton ZEE TISSUE WHITE KING lge. pk. 32c Granulated Soap IVORY SOAP Large Bar— Highway Large No. 24 Cans = 3 rolls ]3c Te —

ov ane Okuo ft sprices would go up NEVADA CITY NUGGET TTS FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1937. DON'T WEAR IRON COLLAR, ADVISES HENRY FORD DETROIT, June 4.—Is there any alliance between the so-called ‘“‘financial interests’? and the labor union? Recent statements made by Henry Ford, and thrown into interviews not specifically taking up this question, have raised the query as to whether he believes there is such an alliance and, if he does believe this, what might be his explanation of it. Today, in an interview, he was asked to go fully into the subject. “In recent statements, Mr. Ford, you have asserted that financial interests are behind the unions and that the purpose of the strikes is to kill competition. Many people do not see this connection and do not understand just what your meaning is. Will you explain fully, and also state your own attitude toward labor unions? : i “Yes,’’ Ford replied,’ and I am glad to explain something every employe, every mechanic, and ‘every one else ought to know. “BEING CORNERED” “They are being told, these days, that a great movement has _ been started to improve their condition. They do not know that it is a movement to get them into a corner where they will have.very little to say about it. But if they understood this movement is one phase of the fight between independent business and financidllycontrolled business, the picture would be clearer to them,” This idea of labor unions and their activities’ as the result of clashing business interests appeared to the interviewer as a new wrinkle in the industrial fabric, and Ford was asked to “‘iron it out.’ “Independent ‘business,’’ ‘ Ford said, ‘‘keeps doing two things that money-controlled business would rather put the ‘brakes on. Independent business creates all the improvements we have in working conditions, and it raises wages not when it must, but when it can. And, of course as long as the independents do this, the other kind of business must keep step. “Without independent competition more money would go into dividends, and less into improvements and wages. Corporation controlled businesses welcome anything that cuts down competition. They also indorse every political scheme that’ limits competition, because it limits wages, too. If it were not for the independents, the others would do. as they please. “ORDERS FROM N. Y.” “The difference between these two types of business is that the independents are free to go ahead when‘ever they can; the others must get their orders from New York. If they want to raise wages five cents an hour, permission must be granted by New York.” . Ford was asked to state some facts or history that would support this last statement. “Ever since the war,’’ he continued, ‘‘two campaigns have been promoted in this country by the finaneial interests of New York—one tn keep wages down, ‘tthe other to put prices up. We know that, because we have been invited in. Ouf business is eriticized because we will not go in with them on such a program. A in this country next week if they could persuade us to join them “If they could get our ‘help to drive workingmen into unions, some wages would immediately start to go down Don’t take my word for it— just watch and see what happens if independent concerns are roped up in this country. “Financial interests in New York have always controlled a large part of American industrial management. But control of management is not enough for them. They must control labor also, else their whole scheme _ failesy*They must have someone who can get the employes under command just as the. managers are. The financial interests cannot do this themselves—that would be too barefaced. “CORNER THE JOBS” “Tt must be done by someone who under one controlling ‘hand. And unde one controlling hand. And what is the quickest way to do that? Simply corner the jobs that men must have. If you say to _ people; ‘You can’t get a job anywhere unless you have a card from me,’ you have immense power—if you can say that. If you say: ‘You can’t get a work card unless you yap for it, and pay, in addition, a monthly rate for the privilege of working,’ you have immense revenue. “A monopoly of jobs in this coun-, try is.just as bad as a monopoly of bread. Sometimes we catch people here in Detroit ‘selling’ jobs at the Ford Motor Co. by making ignorant persons believe they have a ‘pull’ with us. Some men have been swindled out of $25.to $100 for jobs in our factory. This was done by crooks and they ‘were properly dealt with. “ “But, now along comes another group that says: ‘There are 100,000 jobs out at Ford’s. If you want one of them, pay us a registration fee. and so much every month, and we will pass you in, and you can work as long as you pay us.’ This group is asking us to sit still, while it sells our men the jobs that have always been free. If we agreed to this, they would have complete control of American labor, a control no one has ever before had.”’ ° THE CONNECTION “But how does this labor organization of membership fees connect with your assertion that financial interests are batk of it?’”’ Ford was asked. “The connection between finance and strikes—or so-called strikes— is right there,’’ he replied. ‘‘What was the great result of those strikes? Merely that numbers of men have put their neck into an iron collar. I am only trying to show them who owns the collar. Have the me gained anything by their strikes? Nothing. In most cases, even with the small pay raises they received, it will take from 22 months to five years to make up the wages they lost. : E 2 “Read the so-called ‘agreements’ that were reached, and ‘see if you can detect the slightest gain for the men. Labor itself will say that it won little besides ‘‘recognition’.”’ “What.in your opinion, is the meaning of that recognition?’’ Ford was asked, “Simply this,” he replied, ‘the type of management that already wears the New York collar, now agrees to ‘recognize’ the employe who wears the same collar. After that, everything will be nice! A little group of those who control both capital and labor will sit down in New . aimed at men’s wages. I say to them: York and they will ‘Settle prices, and the will settle dividends, and they will settle wages. The mechanic, the skilled factory man, will take what is left. These are his new bosses — not the bosses who pay him wages, but the bosses who make him pay) them. . j COMMON SENSE “T do not believe that the artisans and craftsmen and mechanics and all the ‘useful workers of America can be fooled by this very long. I have worked with them for more than 50 years, and I know they have common sense enough to see the game, and get out of dt. “The Wagner Act is just one of those things that helps to fasten control upon the necks of labor. Labor doesn’t see that yet. It thinks the Wagner Act helps it. All you have to do is to wait and see how it works.

It fits perfectly the plans to get control of labor.” “But do you propose to put up stiff opposition to. any group that undertakes to bring your workmen into labor unions?” Ford was ‘asked. “I have never sought to prevent our men from joining a association—religious, racial, pplitical or social,”’ Ford replied. ‘“‘No one who believes. in American freedom would do that. When our men ask about unions, I give them the same advice as when they ask about any of the other schemes that are always being ‘First, figure out for yourself what you are going to get out of it. If you go into a union, they have got you, but what have you got?’ “We think our men ought to consider whether it is necessary for them to pay some outsider every month for the privilege of working, at Ford’s. Or, whether any union can do more for them than we are doing. COULD BUILD FACTORY. “Tf union leaders think they can manage an automobile factory better than we can, and pay ybetter wages under better working conditions than we can, why don’t they build a factory of their own and show us up? They have the capital—they have all the money they need and a lot more: The country: is big; they have ‘the men; and think ofall the union customers they would have! “If the union leaders are sincere, they should go into business themselves. If they thought out a better way to manage business, let them “Of course, the fimancial interests that use strikes as a way to build up unions, would not permit them to build new factories—big, progressive. factories with everything in them that union leaders now, demand. They don’t want that. They want control. I have always made a better bargain for our men than an outsider could. We have never had to bargain against our men, and we don’t expect to begin demonstrate what it is. If they can’t! do that, why do they pretend they can? now. “There is no mystery about the PAGE THREE connection between corporation control and labor control. They are simply the two ends of the same rope. To have one, you have got te have the other. You may say as emphatically as you like, that all this does not disturb me in the least. E know ‘the scheme is wrong, and it will not work. “America is too big for that. But _ I would like to see the little fellow’ escape the game that the big fellows are playing with him. I would like te . see him wake up.’’ : ? quality beers. : Also on draught at your dealer. : Serve Buffalo or Ruhstaller’s Gilt Edge in regular standard bottles, -steinie bottles or in keglined cans .. but make sure it is Buffalo or Gilt Edge. They please every taste .. meet every standard of fine BUFFALO BREWING CO.—SACRAMENTO _ SIERRA DISTRIBUTING CO., GRASS VALLEY-NEVADA CITY DISTRIBUTORS Don’t Say Beer --Say BUFFALO or GILT EDGE & Stop Striking Matches . . and waiting for water to heat your home. Use a Modern Automatic Gas WATER HEATER F COURSE it isn’t the mere striking of matches that makes the old-fashioned tank type of water heater such a nuisance. It is because someone always has to light the heater. It is because someone always has to wait for the water to heat. Someone has always to remember to turn off the water heater. With an Automatic Gas water heater all this is different. You turn on hot water at the faucet. You learn to take its service for granted, a part of the modern living you enjoy. The first month of service is always a revelation; you wonder how you ever put up with anyother kind of hot water service in For only an»Automatic keeps an abundant supply of water stored hot ready for service at.the turn of a faucet. There is no starting or stopping for anyone to remember. It is quiet, dependable, absolutely carefree. And all this for less cost per gallon of hot water than you pay for your present unsatisfactory hot water service. Judge this automatic service of hot water in your home for yourself; go and see the new Autoa matic Gas water heaters on display in the nearest P. G. and E. office or’at your dealer’s store. Woke up oud Live! On Tap.. Hot Water Service SEE YOUR DEALER » t) e @. ¢. SOP OE CEO e Tee eee eC eC OTH ODED ETCH SOT CT ODES * * * PGE: LET Us Put CARTON ees June 4 to June 10 f , ED” # IN YOUR CARS gcounus importer”: @ere . syeur. Qt. jug 33c ~ i) a? “7 @ Cane and Maple (SAT SLEEPY HOLLOW— “ ¥ oN Hull Gallon Tin.. $1.17 : JELL WELL.. 3 pkgs. ]4c Choice of Flavors #O DEPOSIT POST : BRAN FLAKES. Pkg. ]]c EOPLE who believe in good living, without ex: kg I] : : KELLOGGS travagance, have found in Brown Derby a finer CORN FLAKES Pkg [Vee beer. at no extra cost. RITZ FLAKES Lb. pk. 2]c Many people in America have never ‘become acquainted with : Pilsner, the brew regarded in Europe as ‘the king of beers.” Graham Crackers— Like ‘finest imported Pilsner, Brown Derby is never sweet, never , bitter. It has an irresistible “in-between” taste. A delicate tang alae c. oe cee bb. pkg. 29¢ that leaves-a fresh, clean after-taste. It completely satisfies the thirst. of 24 bottles $1.45 Ee 3 for 25c of 74cm.. $1.95 Plus Bottle Deposit 2 for yACS COFFE BE co Jiow cite So EDWARDS DEPENDABLE Chunds@ CAMAY SOAP .. Bar §c ALL PURPOSE OF DRIP GRIND dwurds LIFEBUOY PORNO TIN. 25¢ SOAP Bar 6Y/sc 2 Pound Tin .... 49c si SUNBRITE ROMATO SAUCE.. CLEANSER ...3 tins ]3¢ Jolly Rogers—8 oz. tin ‘ , ee Deviled Meat ... 6 for 25¢ shanti JUICE ae 3 for 25¢ : mets No. 4 Cans TOMATO SAUCE. 8 ounce tin 4c Tomatoes ........ 3 for Del Monte FLOUR KITCHEN. GRAFT.. 49 Ibs: $1: Extra Quality All Purpose Flour HARVEST BLOSSOM ... 49 Ibs. $1.63 An All Purpose Family Flour PEAS . Each ](e Evergreen No. 300 Can SHASTA WATER.. (Full quart) ]5¢ Plus Deposit : . MAYONNAISE . .. Quart 37c Piedmont ‘ SANDWICH SPREAD..... Qt. 45c Lunch Box TROCO MARGARINE .... 2 Ibs. 37c MATCHES 6 lge. bxs. ]7¢ Highway Carton ZEE TISSUE WHITE KING lge. pk. 32c Granulated Soap IVORY SOAP Large Bar— Highway Large No. 24 Cans = 3 rolls ]3c Te —