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...Tony Grzebyk was born 30 years ago at Eleanor in the Pennsylvania coal fields. At 13 he followed his father into the mines. When Big Tony was 17 the Grzebyks moved to Detroit, and the family have been automobile workers ever since. Big Tony has been at Plymouth for six years. His brother Pete works at Briggs Manufacturing, his brother Frank at Thompson Products. His brother Stanley is not old enough to work. All the Grzebyks except Peter, who is married, live with their widowed mother in a six-room frame house at No. 5028 Belmont St. That is about...
...Tony Grzebyk is at his place on the line. From a conveyor belt he lifts a 72-lb. radiator, deftly puts it into place on a chassis on the crawling assembly line. For Big Tony this is child's play but sometimes he trades jobs with another man who inserts (but does not tighten) the radiator bolts. How many radiators he puts on per hour depends on the speed of the assembly line. Big Tony has never bothered to count...
...often sleeping until 2 p. m. the next afternoon. Occasionally he gets up earlier to bowl, his record score being 250. On Sunday he goes to a Catholic church with his mother, takes in a cinema in the afternoon or evening. Big Tony Grzebyk works a five-day week at 90? per hour-$36 for a 40-hour week...
Peaks into Valleys. What interests Big Tony Grzebyk and his fellow workers in the automobile industry far more than their hourly wage is their annual wage. A diemaker may ask and get $2 per hour for his skill. But if he can get only ten weeks of work per year he is worse off than the 50? day laborer who has year-round employment. Trouble has always been that automobile sales were highly seasonal, rising to tremendous peaks in April and May, dropping into deep valleys in November and December. Production and employment followed the same steep curves. This pattern...
Hours into Dollars. The 90?-per-hour wage of Plymouth's Big Tony Grzebyk is a little better than average for the industry (80?) His earnings for 1936, with special bonuses, will foot up to more than $1,800, which is somewhat better than average for steady automobile workers (about $1,500 this year). In 1931 Big Tony got ten days work in the spring, was laid off until June, then worked for the rest of the year, a total of some 31 weeks. The next year he was sick for two months and his work was even more...