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The Makers Os The Jeep Arthur Gaeth, who is heard each Monday night over KPHO at 9 p.m., discusses further the “high cost of management” in the automobile industry in the follow- ing article. Mr. Gaeth’s column appears in this paper each week through tht courtesy of the United Electric and Machine Workers Union. “I want to present more evidence on the ‘high cost of management' how it keeps prices up, cuts into job possi- bilities, and tends to reduce dividends for investors. “Toledo, Ohio, is a community that has never for- gotten the manipulations which have centered around its automobile industry, whether it was Pope-Toledo, Pope- Hartford, or Willys-Overland. Today that big automobile plant is the home of the Universal Jeep—a tough four- cylinder mechanism which got as much publicity around the world as any other war-time product of this country. But today jeep, jeepster, station wagon, sedan-delivery, and medium duty truck selling—in a $1,600 to SI,BOO class have not been cashing in on that goodwill and are finding The Journey A little work, a little sweating, A few brief, flying years; A little joy, a little fretting, Some smiles and then some tears; A little resting in the shadow, A struggle to the height; A futile search for El Dorado, And then we say good-night. Some toiling in the strife and clamor, Some years of doubt and debt, Sbme words we spoke in foolish anger That we would fain forget; Some cheery words we said un- thinking, That made a sad heart light; The banquet with its feast and drinking, And then we say good-night. Edsel Ford’s death, when Bennett became a Director of the Company. Ford Motors apparently became too small for both Bennett and Soren- s'on. According to the automobile editor of the Detroit Free Press, ‘Sorenson was fired after clashing With Bennett.’ This time Ford did his own firing and the order reach- ed Sorenson in Florida by telephone direct from Ford’s winter home in Ways, Georgia. "Cast Iron" Tactics "With his Ford salary running from $150,000 to $250,000 a year, Sorenson had built a little paradise of his own. He was master of more than a thousand acres, some of it acquired in the tragic days of the 30’s when the small farmers were frozen out on tax foreclos- ures. Sorenson picked up some of those places for as little as $35 an acre. Out in New Hudson, they still tell how a dogged, determined man and woman, -trying to build a home for a family of children, stubbornly resisted attempts to dis- lodge them and outsmarted Sorem son saving their home. "He really wanted that 2% acres which he bordered on three sides. There was even a cloud on the title of the place but the judge ruled in the family’s favor. Then Sorenson’s tenants went to work. Their fence was only six feet from the kitchen-side of the little home. They lined it up with troughs filled them with swill and, day after day, fed their pigs under the very noses of the determined little family. When that didn’t budge them the sows were bred under their win- dows in spite of the fact that none of the children were older than ten. Then the law took a hand. There were still irritations such as trying to keep the family from getting the electricity which had come to the community. That acres of land helped to rear five of the nicest youngsters you’d ever want to meet. Post-war after the father died, it provided work for a couple of young Gl’s who needed a home. ** ‘ Cast-Iron Charlie’ actually es- tablished himself at Algonac, Michigan, in a spacious mansion with grilled-iron gate, tennis court, golf practice range, with electric elevator in his boat house for the daycruiser and a private dock for Billy—for the best in FRYERS We Deliver On Foot Phone 4-6106 D. A. PARKER & SON Painters & Decorators Licensed Contractors No Job Too Large nor Too Small Try Us For Your Next Job Ph. 4-2284 805 S. Montezuma St. the going tougher with each day. You can find these cars stockpiled on the plant roof and in the yards, whenever the plant tries to put them out to near-capacity. "Back in ’45 and '46 there was plenty of talk of Willys-Overland getting into the small 6-cylinder car class —there was working capi- tal available; they tell me much of it has gone now. With the whole automobile industry facing more difficult times, the automobile manufacturers of Toledo will have tested their ability to survive with a product which is generally re- garded as fancily-priced. Big Business Ethics "On the books, Willys-Overland is not paying nearly the salaries or bonuses of General Motors, for ' example. But the profits that the Canaday-Ritter controlled Empire Securities have taken out of Willys- Overland properties since their re- organization in 1936 plus the bene- fits which have been paid to one Charles E. Sorenson, the same ‘cast-iron Charlie’ of the Ford foundry are something for the books. "In the hectic 1930’s when Willys- Overland went into receivership, Ward M. Canaday, who once handled the company’s advertising, and George W. Ritter, a Toledo attorney, created Empire Securi- ties, first with the aid of the origi- nal Mrs. Willys and several others whom they later bought out. In a reorganization, Empire Securities took over Overland. It was decided to separate motor car production from other Willys-Overland facili- ties, then put the company’s Pon- tiac foundry, huge ‘white elephant' office building called ‘John Willys folly,’ surplus factory space and equipment into a Willys-Overland x Real Estate Realization Corpora- tion. "Not putting much more than $500,000 of their own money into this Real Estate Realization com- pany, Canaday and Ritter put to- gether about $2,500,000, half of it from bank loans. They picked up a million dollars of the company’s old cash impounded in the banks. And at a most propitious time, they had the Willys-Overland Motor Company buy back the foundry for $3,500,000 on which they ad- mitted a profit to them of $2,800,- 000—and then the office building, plant space, and equipment for $2,300,000 on which they admitted a profit of about $1,450,000. On their original about 2% million dol- lar investment these fellows clean- ed a nice tidy 4% million dollars—- they had the small stockholders yelling they’d been taken but everything was legal and legiti- mate according to the ethics of business. "Even Fortune Magazine raised an eyebrow, however, in writing about Mr. Ritter’s and Canaday’s sad duty as representatives of the real estate company having to tell the same Ritter and Canaday of the Board of Directors of the au- tomobile company that if they did not pay out of the automobile company’s treasury over to them, these tidy sums, they’d have to sell those properties to other bid- ders. Ritter and Canaday couldn’t lose but some of the holders of Motor Corporation stock are sure they did. This is a brilliant example of the high cost of some modem management Post-War Development "In 1944 came time when the directors of Willys-Overland Mo- tors were looking to post-war de- velopment. They were anxious to get a real ‘big automobile’ name that would do things to their re- putation. Lo and behold ‘Cast- Iron Charlie’ of Ford fame, whom Fortune describes as a cold, lonely, introspective Dane, who for 40 years had helped to rule the Ford roost, had been fired by Henry Ford. What a contract then 56-year-old Sorenson of the Rouge signed in June 1944—51,000 a week for ten years—win, lose, or draw, whether his genius was required or not. In addition, an option on 100,000 shares of stock at $3. No sooner was it announced, then Willys- Overland stock was on the way- zooming in 18 months all the way up to $26.75 from three bucks. But by that time the Willys board had changed its mind about the mi- racle workings of Sorenson —and this time brought in a General Mo- tors man from the Navy, James D. Mooney, to take over the pres- idency. "Mooney set ui) a little side show of his own—Technical Managers, Incorporated, to which Willys con- tributed about $30,000 a year as long as Mooney lasted—the idea to promote and develop American products, including jeeps, all over the world. Sorenson continued to fish, yacht, and shoot golf in Flor- ida and Algonac, Michigan and collect his SI,OOO a week and he ultimately unloaded his stock op- tions for what has been reported as a profit of about $600,000. That means that Willys-Overland will by 1954, have given ‘Sorenson of the Rouge’ over $1,100,000. Ford Specialists "What a career this fellow Char- les E. Sorenson has had. Keith Sward bares many details in his Legend of Henry Ford. ‘Cast-Iron Charlie’ started out with Ford as a boss of the pattern shop in 1904. Soon he became expediter extra- ordinaire of the Ford asembly line. In 1921 when Ford purged the bulk of his foremen and even tossed out their desks, it was ‘Cast-Iron Char- lie’ who flew about the plant at Hyland Park and chopped off the necessary heads, all at Ford’s be- hest. •Sorenson made his reputation at Ford’s as & fireeater. This man could display his scorn for some performance in the factory by simply tipping over a worker’s bench. "Ford held that men worked for two reasons only—‘for their wages and for fear of losing their jobs.’ And Sorenson expressed the fullest concurrence with this thesis of human behavior. At least he dis- tinguished himself in the 20’s as a Ford specialist in the psychology of job insecurity if not as the dis- penser of high wages. He came to excel, before long, at the art of surrounding his fellow administra- tors with an atmosphere of chronic anxiety. And under the turbulent regime that followed, swift and arbitrary dismissals, with no ex- planation given, became the order of the day. With Sorenson’s rise to power, job security went out at the Ford Motor Company. Soren- son was key in the new Ford speed- up, the 5-day week, and, as Forbes Magazines reported ‘replacing fam- ily men and veteran employees who had been earning $7 and $8 a day, with boys and single men at a starting wage of $3.20. "But there also came a day of reckoning in June, 1943, following McConnell studio PICTURES FROM YOU ARE ALWAYS TREASURED BY RELATIVES AND FRIENDS 10 North 9th Street. Phone 2-2912 ftQ^frigerator I j of reus a uffTiMf or ¦ I TROUBIt-FRit SfRVICt 11- COME TO THE ¦ Star Liquor Store for friendly service where customers meet friends. COLD BEER, WINE AND 1629 E. Washington Street ELDRIDGE COLLINS, Manager. Eldridge Collins CLUB m ZANZIBAR * JgUfc COCKTAILS Jumj “The Harlem Night Club of Phoenix” Exclusive Colored Entertainment ( «jS Amateurs, Wednesday Nights, Prizes! H&juSy Jam Session Every Sunday Afternoon 4—Until? ]f DANCING NIGHTLY ( % LIQUORS Packaged or Drink J \ 1101 W. Hadley St. For Reservation Call 4-5929 ARIZONA SUN his houseboat, generally kept in Florida where Sorenson sports an- other palatial residence at North Miami Beach. High Cost Jeep •Until a few months ago, when some of the minor stockholders at Willys-Overland sued to break the Sorenson contract, the mellowing ex-Ford fire-eater was rarely seen at Willys, for he enjoyed fishing, 1 yachting and practicing golf shots. He said himself when he was in the vicinity he went to the plant once, maybe twice a week, the telephone was a wonderful inven- tion. "With his stock options sold, he draws his SI,OOO for genius and advice on which record shows, the company does not depend. But for the impetus his name once gave to the stock of the company, the sell- ing price of each jeep must con- tinue to bear the cost of Sorenson. It, along with many other charges, adds to the overhead of a company where the crying need is to reduce prices if there-are to be continuing jobs for the automobile workers of Toledo who have had many an anxious moment in the last 20 years because of what has been done by management at Willys. "The high cost of management, so often out of proportion to any service that management may ren- der, and certainly out of line with what is paid for services in govern- ment, education, science, farming, and other basic operations, is a crying evil of our times which re- mains nicely covered up and over- looked. But each day we feel it in many of the commodities that we buy. And so it really is time, and it is important, that we expose it.” Watch for next week’s discussion by Arthur Gaeth. INCOME TAX SERVICE Reasonable Rates Open Daily Sundays and Evenings 732 E. Adams Ph. 4-3294 FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1950 Well Folks— Did you start the New Year off right? So far everything pretty much all right with us here at Reddy’s Corner with the exception of one thing. That one thing is the selling of liquor to minors. Now it isn’t our wish or intention to sell to minors at anytime, our biggest problem is to keep others from buying it for them. People just don’t seem to realize that there is a pretty severe penalty for contrib- uting to the delinquency of a min- or. That is what they are doing if they buy for, give to, or sell liquors to a minor. Now we would dislike very much to bring any charges against any one for any reason but I believe that you will agree with me that I would certainly be justified in do- ing so to protect my own interest. If I were to be convicted of selling to a minor the least that I could expect to he penalized would be about a 30 day suspension of my license and it could mean the abso- lute revoking of my license. Now of course I don’t want that to hap- pen and particularly so if it were that we had innocently sold to an adult and they in turn had given or sold the liquor to a minor.—You see the minor will very seldom "squeal” on the friend or person but they will say that they bought it for themselves. So all I can do to protect myself is to put the fin- ger on those that I know, or feel are buying liquor for minors. That we would dislike very much to have to do, so if you will just cooperate with us on this matter we# will ap- preciate it very much. Thanks Folks, thanks indeed Annie Mae—Virlee and Reddy PAGE EIGHT
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The Makers Os The JeepArthur Gaeth, who is heard each Monday night over
KPHO at 9 p.m., discusses further the “high cost ofmanagement” in the automobile industry in the follow-ing article. Mr. Gaeth’s column appears in this paper
each week through tht courtesy of the United Electricand Machine Workers Union.
“I want to present more evidence on the ‘high cost ofmanagement' how it keeps prices up, cuts into job possi-bilities, and tends to reduce dividends for investors.
“Toledo, Ohio, is a community that has never for-gotten the manipulations which have centered around itsautomobile industry, whether it was Pope-Toledo, Pope-Hartford, or Willys-Overland. Today that big automobileplant is the home of the Universal Jeep—a tough four-cylinder mechanism which got as much publicity aroundthe world as any other war-time product of this country.But today jeep, jeepster, station wagon, sedan-delivery,
and medium duty truck selling—in a $1,600 to SI,BOO classhave not been cashing in on that goodwill and are finding
The JourneyA little work, a little sweating,A few brief, flying years;A little joy, a little fretting,Some smiles and then some tears;A little resting in the shadow,A struggle to the height;A futile search for El Dorado,And then we say good-night.
Some toiling in the strife andclamor,
Some years of doubt and debt,Sbme words we spoke in foolish
angerThat we would fain forget;Some cheery words we said un-
thinking,That made a sad heart light;The banquet with its feast and
drinking,And then we say good-night.
Edsel Ford’s death, when Bennettbecame a Director of the Company.Ford Motors apparently became toosmall for both Bennett and Soren-s'on. According to the automobileeditor of the Detroit Free Press,‘Sorenson was fired after clashingWith Bennett.’ This time Ford didhis own firing and the order reach-ed Sorenson in Florida by telephonedirect from Ford’s winter homein Ways, Georgia.
"Cast Iron" Tactics
"With his Ford salary runningfrom $150,000 to $250,000 a year,Sorenson had built a little paradise
of his own. He was master ofmore than a thousand acres, someof it acquired in the tragic daysof the 30’s when the small farmerswere frozen out on tax foreclos-ures. Sorenson picked up some ofthose places for as little as $35 anacre. Out in New Hudson, they
still tell how a dogged, determinedman and woman, -trying to build ahome for a family of children,stubbornly resisted attempts to dis-lodge them and outsmarted Soremson saving their home.
"He really wanted that 2% acreswhich he bordered on three sides.There was even a cloud on thetitle of the place but the judgeruled in the family’s favor. ThenSorenson’s tenants went to work.Their fence was only six feet fromthe kitchen-side of the little home.They lined it up with troughs filledthem with swill and, day after day,fed their pigs under the very nosesof the determined little family.When that didn’t budge them thesows were bred under their win-dows in spite of the fact that noneof the children were older thanten. Then the law took a hand.There were still irritations such astrying to keep the family fromgetting the electricity which hadcome to the community. Thatacres of land helped to rear fiveof the nicest youngsters you’d everwant to meet. Post-war after thefather died, it provided work fora couple of young Gl’s who neededa home.
** ‘ Cast-Iron Charlie’ actually es-tablished himself at Algonac,Michigan, in a spacious mansionwith grilled-iron gate, tennis court,golf practice range, with electricelevator in his boat house for thedaycruiser and a private dock for
Billy—for the best in
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the going tougher with each day.You can find these cars stockpiledon the plant roof and in the yards,whenever the plant tries to putthem out to near-capacity.
"Back in ’45 and '46 there wasplenty of talk of Willys-Overlandgetting into the small 6-cylindercar class —there was working capi-tal available; they tell me muchof it has gone now. With the wholeautomobile industry facing moredifficult times, the automobilemanufacturers of Toledo willhavetested their ability to survive witha product which is generally re-garded as fancily-priced.
Big Business Ethics"On the books, Willys-Overland
is not paying nearly the salaries orbonuses of General Motors, for
'
example. But the profits that theCanaday-Ritter controlled EmpireSecurities have taken out of Willys-Overland properties since their re-organization in 1936 plus the bene-fits which have been paid to oneCharles E. Sorenson, the same‘cast-iron Charlie’ of the Fordfoundry are something for thebooks.
"In the hectic 1930’s when Willys-Overland went into receivership,Ward M. Canaday, who oncehandled the company’s advertising,
and George W. Ritter, a Toledoattorney, created Empire Securi-ties, first with the aid of the origi-nal Mrs. Willys and several otherswhom they later bought out. In areorganization, Empire Securitiestook over Overland. It was decidedto separate motor car productionfrom other Willys-Overland facili-ties, then put the company’s Pon-tiac foundry, huge ‘white elephant'office building called ‘John Willysfolly,’ surplus factory space andequipment into a Willys-Overland
x Real Estate Realization Corpora-tion.
"Not putting much more than$500,000 of their own money intothis Real Estate Realization com-pany, Canaday and Ritter put to-gether about $2,500,000, half of itfrom bank loans. They picked up amilliondollars of the company’s oldcash impounded in the banks. Andat a most propitious time, theyhad the Willys-Overland MotorCompany buy back the foundryfor $3,500,000 on which they ad-mitted a profit to them of $2,800,-000—and then the office building,plant space, and equipment for$2,300,000 on which they admitteda profit of about $1,450,000. Ontheir original about 2% million dol-lar investment these fellows clean-ed a nice tidy 4% million dollars—-they had the small stockholdersyelling they’d been taken buteverything was legal and legiti-mate according to the ethics ofbusiness.
"Even Fortune Magazine raisedan eyebrow, however, in writingabout Mr. Ritter’s and Canaday’ssad duty as representatives of thereal estate company having to tellthe same Ritter and Canaday ofthe Board of Directors of the au-tomobile company that if they didnot pay out of the automobilecompany’s treasury over to them,these tidy sums, they’d have tosell those properties to other bid-ders. Ritter and Canaday couldn’tlose but some of the holders ofMotor Corporation stock are surethey did. This is a brilliant exampleof the high cost of some modemmanagement
Post-War Development"In 1944 came time when the
directors of Willys-Overland Mo-tors were looking to post-war de-velopment. They were anxious toget a real ‘big automobile’ namethat would do things to their re-putation. Lo and behold ‘Cast-Iron Charlie’ of Ford fame, whomFortune describes as a cold, lonely,introspective Dane, who for 40years had helped to rule the Fordroost, had been fired by HenryFord.
What a contract then 56-year-oldSorenson of the Rouge signed inJune 1944—51,000 a week for ten
years—win, lose, or draw, whetherhis genius was required or not. Inaddition, an option on 100,000shares of stock at $3. No soonerwas it announced, then Willys-Overland stock was on the way-zooming in 18 months all the wayup to $26.75 from three bucks. Butby that time the Willys board hadchanged its mind about the mi-racle workings of Sorenson —andthis time brought in a General Mo-tors man from the Navy, James D.Mooney, to take over the pres-idency.
"Mooney set ui) a little side showof his own—Technical Managers,Incorporated, to which Willys con-tributed about $30,000 a year aslong as Mooney lasted—the idea topromote and develop Americanproducts, including jeeps, all overthe world. Sorenson continued tofish, yacht, and shoot golf in Flor-ida and Algonac, Michigan andcollect his SI,OOO a week and heultimately unloaded his stock op-
tions for what has been reportedas a profit of about $600,000. Thatmeans that Willys-Overland willby 1954, have given ‘Sorenson ofthe Rouge’ over $1,100,000.
Ford Specialists"What a career this fellow Char-
les E. Sorenson has had. KeithSward bares many details in hisLegend of Henry Ford. ‘Cast-IronCharlie’ started out with Ford asa boss of the pattern shop in 1904.Soon he became expediter extra-ordinaire of the Ford asembly line.In 1921 when Ford purged the bulkof his foremen and even tossed out
their desks, it was ‘Cast-Iron Char-lie’ who flew about the plant atHyland Park and chopped off thenecessary heads, all at Ford’s be-hest.
•Sorenson made his reputation at
Ford’s as & fireeater. This mancould display his scorn for someperformance in the factory by
simply tipping over a worker’sbench.
"Ford held that men worked fortwo reasons only—‘for their wages
and for fear of losing their jobs.’
And Sorenson expressed the fullestconcurrence with this thesis of
human behavior. At least he dis-tinguished himself in the 20’s as aFord specialist in the psychologyof job insecurity if not as the dis-penser of high wages. He came toexcel, before long, at the art ofsurrounding his fellow administra-tors with an atmosphere of chronicanxiety. And under the turbulentregime that followed, swift andarbitrary dismissals, with no ex-planation given, became the orderof the day. With Sorenson’s riseto power, job security went out atthe Ford Motor Company. Soren-son was key in the new Ford speed-up, the 5-day week, and, as ForbesMagazines reported ‘replacing fam-ily men and veteran employees whohad been earning $7 and $8 a day,with boys and single men at astarting wage of $3.20.
"But there also came a day ofreckoning in June, 1943, following
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his houseboat, generally kept inFlorida where Sorenson sports an-other palatial residence at NorthMiami Beach.
High Cost Jeep•Until a few months ago, when
some of the minor stockholders atWillys-Overland sued to break theSorenson contract, the mellowingex-Ford fire-eater was rarely seenat Willys, for he enjoyed fishing,
1 yachting and practicing golf shots.He said himself when he was inthe vicinity he went to the plantonce, maybe twice a week, thetelephone was a wonderful inven-tion.
"With his stock options sold, hedraws his SI,OOO for genius andadvice on which record shows, thecompany does not depend. But forthe impetus his name once gave tothe stock of the company, the sell-ing price of each jeep must con-tinue to bear the cost of Sorenson.It, along with many other charges,adds to the overhead of a companywhere the crying need is to reduceprices if there-are to be continuingjobs for the automobile workersof Toledo who have had many ananxious moment in the last 20years because of what has beendone by management at Willys.
"The high cost of management,so often out of proportion to anyservice that management may ren-der, and certainly out of line withwhat is paid for services in govern-ment, education, science, farming,and other basic operations, is acrying evil of our times which re-mains nicely covered up and over-looked. But each day we feel itin many of the commodities thatwe buy. And so it really is time,and it is important, that we exposeit.”
Watch for next week’s discussionby Arthur Gaeth.
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Well Folks—
Did you start the New Year offright? So far everything prettymuch all right with us here atReddy’s Corner with the exceptionof one thing. That one thing is theselling of liquor to minors. Now itisn’t our wish or intention to sellto minors at anytime, our biggestproblem is to keep others frombuying it for them. People justdon’t seem to realize that there isa pretty severe penalty for contrib-uting to the delinquency of a min-or. That is what they are doing ifthey buy for, give to, or sell liquorsto a minor.
Now we would dislike very muchto bring any charges against anyone for any reason but I believethat you will agree with me thatIwould certainly be justified in do-ing so to protect my own interest.If I were to be convicted of sellingto a minor the least that I couldexpect to he penalized would beabout a 30 day suspension of mylicense and it could mean the abso-lute revoking of my license. Nowof course I don’t want that to hap-pen and particularly so if it werethat we had innocently sold to anadult and they in turn had givenor sold the liquor to a minor.—Yousee the minor will very seldom"squeal” on the friend or personbut they will say that they boughtit for themselves. So all I can doto protect myself is to put the fin-ger on those that I know, or feelare buying liquor for minors. Thatwe would dislike very much to haveto do, so if you will just cooperatewith us on this matter we# will ap-preciate it very much.
Thanks Folks, thanks indeedAnnie Mae—Virleeand Reddy
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