Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 182, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1930 — Page 8

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FORD TO MAKE EUROPEAN WAGE SURVEY PUBLIC Figures Sought to Decide Pay Level in Plants Across Ocean. By Time* Sprrigl NEW YORK. Dec. 9—Henry Ford's survey to determine how much he will have to pay his European workmen in order to enable them to live as well as his Ameri-, ran employes nearly is complete and shortly will be made public. The findings, the Review of Reviews declares, threaten to stir again the antipathy of European business men and politcians against America. The survey was undertaken for Ford by the international labor office, a semi-independent branch of the League of Nations, after the Detroit manufacturer announced a year ago that he would pay American wages in his more than twenty European factories. France* and Italy did their utmost to kill the inquiry. The most recent statistics obtained by the investigators, Jonathan Mitchell says in the Review of Reviews, show' that American workers receive from two to five times as much as Europeans. This comparson is in purchasing power. Italians Poorly Paid Although such statistics have been gathered for several years, they have not been published widely in Europe. Because of the importance of Ford's name, the report on his survey, Mitchell declares, will receive notice everywhere. “Italians will discover,” he says, “that in the United States workmen can have five times as much to eat, five times as many rooms to live in and clothes which are five times as expensive. Furthermore, i hey will learn that they are worse off than any other workmen in modern Europe. They are worse off even than the workers of Spain and Estonia.” In varying degrees, the same information will be disseminated to other European nations, says Mitchell. and increased unrest among workers is feared as a result. All this he declared will be blamed on Ford. Watched Loss of Markets “In every country,” he continues, “manufacturers and their political spokesmen assert that wages already are too high, and that any further increase would be national suicide. “Europeans have come to regard Ford as a sort of symbol of Ameri - can big business. They have w atched American big business take markets away from them in Asia, in South America, in Africa. Now they are beginning to ask themselves whether Europe itself eventually will not

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BANDIT OBTAINS S2O IN HOLDUP OF DRUG STORE Week-End City Crime Wave Falls Off as Police Renew Vigilance. After a week-end of thievery followed by increased vigilance by police, banditry in Indianapolis fell off Monday night and early today with only a few' acts of minor outlawry reported. The only successful banditry job was late Monday at the Harbisor. pharmacy. Eleventh street and College avenue, when a bandit obtained S2O. When he entered, the robber handed a note to William Bright, 537 East Eleventh street, clerk, demanding S2O. Bright faced a revolver after reading the note, and handed over the money./ Looting of several rooms in her house by two youths who recently became roomers, was reported to police by Mrs. M. E. Jones, 2062 North New Jersey street. Clothing and jewelry valued at $125 were stolen, she said. Taking their victim for a ride and finding he had no money, two bandits gave up in disgust Monday

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night, R. R. Oliver, 130 East Pratt street, told police. He related how they entered his car at Senate avenue and Market street and. at the point of revolvers, forced him to drive to White River parkway. When they searched him and found no money, they ordered him to drive on, he said. Two Negro apartment ransackers, sought several days by police after a scries, of north side burglaries, escaped police late Monday after James Davis. Apt. 209, 1433 North Pennsylvania street, heard them at work in his residence. They fled, when he called police and left behind two coats and a hat along with dresses they had packed into a sack. Held in connection with the robbery Saturday night of the Price grocery, 1409 North Missouri street, Everett Jones, Negro, 28, of 746 Utica street, today faced a vagrancy charge. Police said he had been identified as one of the three Negro bandits. ALIEN BAR GAINS FAVOR Immigration Ban for 2 to 5 Years Sought by Reed, Johnson. Bu Rrrinos-Hoirord A'ri cspnvrr AHtnnrr WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Pushed by Senator Reed (Rep., Penn.), and Representative Johnson (Rep., Wash.), the sentiment in favor of putting a complete ban on immigration for from two to five years is growing on Capital hill. Reed has introduced a bill asking that the gate be closed to immigrants for two and Johnson seeks to extend the time to five years.

BUSINESS FIRMS SLIP SLIGHTLY IN VALUATION Survey by County Assessor Reveals 5 Per Cent Loss in Year. Little encouragement for business pessimism will be found in valuation figures of about* 10,000 business houses in the city, as announced today by Frank D. Brattain, Center township assessor. Brattain’s figures, as compiled by William Gruner. deputy assessor in charge of the business appraisal dc-

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loss of $127,980 is shown; according to figures. In l'i29 the aggregate valuation was $27 004.440. and 1n 1930 the same figure is $26,876,460.