MASS PRODUCTION
FORD MOTOR WORKS AUSTRALIAN MISSION’S INQUIRIES. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, March 28. The Australian industrial mission spent the day at Detroit inspecting the Ford American and Canadian plants, and having an opportunity of interviewing the employees. The minimum wage at the Ford works is 24s a clay, the industry working four days a week through the slack period. Two former Australian unionists, who arc now employed at Ford’s, visited the mission to-night, and interviewed the employers’ representatives, stating that mass production was not harmful. They knew of men who had been working from ten to fifteen years without injury to their health.
Several factories will be visited tomorrow, before the mission goes to Niagara.
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Evening Star, Issue 19520, 30 March 1927, Page 5
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118MASS PRODUCTION Evening Star, Issue 19520, 30 March 1927, Page 5
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