Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1930 — Page 8

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DEALER REVOLT AT ‘IRON RULE' FACED BY FORD Reduced Profit, Autocratic Control Bring Unrest, Reports Indicate. Ru Timrn Sarnial NEW YORK. April 3.—The clouds of rebellion are gathering on the I front line of Henry Ford's sales organization. There is revolt among the dealers In many centers, says the Business Week in its current is- ' sue. adding that estimates of defection from the Ford dealer ranks ange high, especially in the south nd middle west. “The focal point of the current ' unnoil,” says the Business Week, is the Ford price reduction, which as accompanied by a decrease in ealer discounts from 20 per cent , o per cent. Ford prices were ! .educed sls to SSO. but the lower discount placed over 90 per cent oi he reduction upon the dealer, to be aken from his already meager ross profit. “This action, following long years of absolute domination by the facory and followed, in turn, by renewed efforts to regulate the dealer’s business ‘according to factory wishes, seems to have been the spark which set ofT the rebellion long smouldering In the Ford dealer ranks. Policy Brought Success "The fundamental difficulty between Ford and his dealers has always been that Ford refused to consider them the independent merchants that they are, in theory. He consistently refused to cultivate them, to cater to their wishes, to ask their advice. He considered them in the same category as his factory "organization. He retained absolute control, his word was law and he, and he alone, could decide what to do, when and how to do it." “This policy has been a financial success. Ford has made money. His employes are paid unsually well. Ford dealers consistently have enjoyed a highly satisfactory sales volume. The autocratic spirit with which Ford activities are carried out, however, has made the work irksome to most independent souls who come under his' influence.

Workers Accept "Oppression” “Factory workers complain of conditions in Ford plants, but they continue to mob his employment offices because of the high wages he pays. His dealers bewail the ‘oppression’ which has been their lot but accepted it and asked for more because of the strength of the demand for Ford cars. "Now. apparently, conditions have changed. Ford faces stronger and better organized competition than ever before. His dealers will not be able to sit at their desks and accept orders during 1930: they wifi have to work, and work hard, for business. , "Under these changing conditions the Ford franchise does not look so attractive. The more depressing elements of the work come to the surface and influence the dealers' action.” Objections Set Out .“Specifically” adds The Business “many Ford dealers object to: fl) Roadmen who tour the country sand report all violations of factory Yules and enforce strict discipline iipon the dealer organization; <2) Ireduced discounts bv which the .’possible margin for net profit has [been reduced to approximately invisibility; treating contracts as ‘scraps of paper' as was done with the demand upon dealers to sign riders to their franchises accepting 17 Vi per cent discount at the peril fc>f "their business lives; (4) ironbound. factory-set quotas which frequently have little relation to sales possibilities in dealer's territory, but are never below them: <5 inclusion of Lincoln cars and Ford trucks, in quotas for localities where sales of either may be practically impossible; (6) failure of factory to consider dealers’ needs in distributing colors: (7> having to buy ‘;S equipment from a recsource regardless of Jbeed or price of equipment: Sptfpry exercising authority over WM of money to be spent lor garages and similar inggwjjßTnts £." 4he business. IlgKlere ma} be other objections *ch a more cantful survey would jgpeal. These are enough to sugSSst that reported utvrest in the pFbrd organization is no."’ entirely unjustified: that there are obvious changes which might be made.”

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The "Washington and Lee Swing,” one of the most spirited football songs of the south, has been celected by Rudy Valee and his Connecticut Yankees as the college tune to be featured over WHAS. WTAM and an NBC network in the Fleischmann hour Thursday night at 7. “Who Poisoned the Death Cocktail?” is the title of the True Detective Mystery hich will be acted at 8 p. m. Thursday over WFBM and the stations of the Columbia broadcasting system. The story is from the official experiences of Deputy Sheriff William J. Penrose of Los Angeles, and is recounted by .Marshall Wingman. Medleys of popular selections from current talking pictures and from old and new musical comedies comprise the hour of dance music to be heard when the Atwater Kent mid-week program is broadcast over WGN and an NBC network Thursday night at 9 o'clock. A selection from Carl Maria von Weber’s "Der Freischutz” features the period of Slumber Music which

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Ludwig Laurier and a string ensemble will broadcast over KDKA and an NBC network Thursday night at 10 o’clock. NO PEARL TUB; WIFE LEAVES Plumbing Contractor Broke Pledge, Says Mate. Bu T'nitrd Prr,* CHICAGO. April 3. This concerns a plumbing contractor who wooed with alleged promises of a bathtub of pearl surmounted by golden nymphs, and who forgot to install any at all, even the $5 sec-ond-hand affair his wife declares she bought. Mrs. Maude Colahan O’Malley presented the bathtub incident as grounds for her suit for temporary alimony from Ira J. O’Malley. “What that man promised me would make a book,” she declared. “A bed of gold with a golden canopy was another thing. ‘‘But the only thing he ever installed in the house was an altar in the bedroom. “Back of the altar was a big mirror that refleted the statue of a young man. O'Malley would pray every night to the statue to restore his youth to what he called the universal consciousness. Then he’d scatter rose petals on the bed. “He left me when I refused to give him money to spend on other women, and him over 60. at that.” BOND HEARING IS SET Pleasant Run Parkway Paving to Come Before Tax Board. Hearing on the proposed $75,000 improvement bond issue of the Indianapolis park board for paving Pleasant Run parkway from Washington street to Colorado avenue have been set by the state tax board for Monday at 2 p. m.

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DEMOCRATS CHIEF TO MAKE STATE TOUR Peters Expected to Soothe Feelings of Disgruntled Followers. Democratic organization meetings w..l be addressed over the state by R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman. Peters will speak at Laporte Thursday, Columbia City, Friday; Terre Haute, April 10, and Logansport, April 14. The tour is designed to give Peters an opportunity to smooth over factional differences which cropped up as a result of the mum-

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