Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started on the second phase of the investigation they are conducting at Mr. Ford's request. In Poland and in Denmark they began asking about house rents, started pricing cars, radios, clothes, food, amusements. They showed startled shopkeepers whole trunkfuls of clothes and underclothes previously worn by Detroit workmen and their families, asked: "How much will garments of exactly the same quality cost here...
When the survey is complete Mr. Ford plans to pay all his workmen throughout the world an "equivalent wage," equivalent not in gold but in what the wage will buy in the place where the worker works. Already there is anxious talk among statesmen that if Mr. Ford's program of "standardized living" goes into effect at his European plants it will provoke a social industrial revolution. Last week James Ramsay MacDonald was said to be on pins & needles lest the Ford survey soon to begin in London and in Manchester, should prove that a shilling is worth more...
Preliminary "leaks" from the investigators in Warsaw and Copenhagen last week may be thus summarized: Local officials were aghast at the idea that a workman & family should occupy four rooms, surprised at the notion that they should want a bath. Local workmen appeared to be content with two rooms per family, accustomed to dropping in at the municipal baths when dirty. In a terminology more European than American the conclusion seemed to be that an office worker or petit bourgeois is about the lowest class of wage earner who might (possibly) or should (perhaps) have a bathroom in his home...
Last week the curtain came down and the public swept in. While the choir sang and trumpets blew and the organ pealed a solemn procession moved up the aisle. Proudly at its head in stiff blue suits and immaculate collars walked 100 workmen who had completed this great task, followed the Lord Mayor with his sheriffs in medieval costume, and 200 bishops. Next entered King George and Queen Mary who had come in semi-state from Temple Bar escorted by the Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor. Behind them with military medal on their peaceful white surplices marched a delegation...
...pertinent facts were seen to be: 1) Rhenish and Westphalian producers of semi-finished iron and steel products cut prices 3% last week; 2) under an arbitral ruling by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald (Time, June 9) the Westphalian producers won last week the right to reduce 200,000 workmen's wages 7½% next month; 3) in a trade circular the Westphalian metal syndicate urged other German industrialists to cut prices and wages, but for the time being this scheme remained a proposal, possibly a trend...