FIVE-DAY WEEK

Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 228, 27 September 1926, Page 5

FIVE-DAY WEEK

IN HENRY FORD INDUSTRIES.

NO WORK ON SiATURDAY OR SUN DAY

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(Received Sep. 27, 9.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 26. The newspaper New York American states : "Mr Henry F'ord will immediately put into effect through all tlie branches of his industries a five-day week and no work on Baturday or S-unday . The eighthour day will continue withoit any overtime, and at least the same pay as for the full six-da-y week will be assuied." Mr Ford's announoement points ort : "This decision in favor of a forty-liour week is not sudden. We have been going towards it for three or four years. We have been feeling our wa.y and now we know from experienco that sho-rter hours ia'nd high pressure production pay a full week's wage for a short vveek's work and ensure better methods. This country is prepared for a fiveday week. It is bound to corrie through all industry. Just as the eighfc-hour day opened our way toprosperity in America so- the fiveday week will open our way to still gieater prosperity." Mr Ford, when asked whether his minimum. wage of six dollars a day would be proportionately augmented, said: "We are now working out a. wage schedule. We have; stopped thinlung in the terms of a mini.num wage. That- belongs to yesterday before we quit-e knew what f aying high wages meaiit."