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Ford Profits and Unemployed Crowds

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 27, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 3.

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Ford Profits and Unemployed Crowds

The Ford automobile factory at Detroit, Michigan, has been advertised widely during recent days because of its announcement to distribute ten millions of its profits among its employees in 1914. This announcement has brought a crowd estimated at ten thousand to seek employment from this company; and after standing in the freezing cold for several hours, when they were told that work could not be given them, rioting was started. It would seem that a company that is disposed to be so liberal with its employees deserves a better fate than this.