Chapter 83: The Great Depression (2)
Lorraine was not a member of the Communist Party, so Lorraine was easy to buy, and the great warden was born for profit and changed the rules because of corruption. Praise the Plane Age, even if it is only 1% of the profit, they are willing to destroy another plane.
If Lorraine was also of blood, he must have come from a Jewish family.
Huang Xuan didn't even need to elaborate on the pros and cons, Lorraine compromised, Yang or he had already figured out the pros and cons.
However, from this point, Huang Xuan can also have a rough understanding of this 100,000-year-old intelligent brain, this guy's imagination is basically similar to that of a smart dog. Therefore, Mr. Lorraine likes the energy brought by profits, but he doesn't know how to get profits, Huang Xuan smiled very smugly, feeling that he was really a perfect match with the low-intelligence guardians - of course, it was just his fantasy.
Ford's current Model A car is selling very well, but they were greatly damaged by the six-month shutdown in 1927 during the transition period. Ford with his son, Edsel. It took Ford six months to develop the Model A, and although it was still fast, the forced transformation cost Ford the title of the world's No. 1 automaker.
However, Ford still retains its Rouge manufacturing center, which is Ford's ideal self-sufficiency of car cities, where everything from raw materials to finished cars can be achieved in one place. Until 100 years later, Rouge is still the world's largest car-making center owned by a single depot, and it is here that the widely spread assembly line technology began to take root.
Since the grain is no longer valuable, Huang Xuan has little interest in selling a batch of grain cheaply. Detroit is a chaotic city, but also a city of iron blood, and here, Huang Xuan seems to be infected as well — he finds three lone thugs, robs a suit of clothes, and scrapes together $1.
That's enough to get to Rouge.
It is said that this was once the place where Ford lived when he was a child, but in the 30s, the people who admired productivity used thick smoke to decorate the place, and in normal production, Rouge was a small and self-sufficient town with 100,000 people working at the same time.
Rouge was hiring workers every day, and during the Great Depression, Ford was one of the few companies to raise wages. Ford's $5 work system is said to have increased wages by 100 percent. However, according to Huang Xuan's understanding, this is by no means the so-called contribution to the Great Depression, but to better stabilize skilled workers.
One only has to look at the never-ending recruitment in front of the factories to see how mobile it is to maintain a total of tens of thousands of workers in an era when contractual guarantees are not yet clear.
Mr. Ford recruited about 100 people a day, and even 1,000 when needed, and the money spent on this and reduced productivity justified the increase in wages.
This is indeed the case.
Most of the workers standing next to Huang Xuan have thick arms and dull eyes, and Ford only needs skilled skilled workers, and this kind of thing may happen in the 90s or 20s, but it will definitely not happen in the Great Depression.
In an age of countless factory bankruptcies, men with only strength could not get $5, but most people still wanted to try their luck.
A middle-aged man in a brown coat walked out, stood outside the perennial recruitment notice, and shouted, "Someone who will use a milling machine will come in." With that, he raised his head and left.
More than a dozen white young men happily walked in, and after a while, most of them walked out dejectedly, Huang Xuan tried to ask people about Ford's technical department, but was disappointed to find that people thought that the factory was the technical department.
But Huang Xuan is not in a hurry, on the one hand, this time he can stay for about 10 days, on the other hand, he has some doubts about what to bring home, he needs to observe carefully - the Great Depression is caused by overproduction, but not always overproduction, from the information in Lorraine, we can know that the cheapest in this era is agricultural products, but the most difficult to obtain is also agricultural products - when the farmer finds that the transportation cost of sending a sheep to the town is higher than the price of sheep, they will not hesitate to kill it and throw it away, The same is true for wheat and corn.
It is strange to ask why not store these things and sell them when the price rises—depending on whether the price saved exceeds the farmer's expected depression time, no one knows when the Great Depression will end, and few people are willing to spend another sum of money to preserve the products. In fact, for a long time, most products were worthless.
And what these problems are related to Huang Xuan is that even if you have a lot of money in your hand, you can't buy the goods you want, which is the essence of the crisis, and everything is out of touch with the law.
Soon someone shouted, and those who met the requirements could get the opportunity to be interviewed, and Huang Xuan accompanied most of the people to wait outside.
"Boy, what will you do?" The speaker was a Hispanic-American, bearded, talkative old man.
"Maybe ......" Huang Xuan flipped his palm and said, "Let's drive." "He's driving a pretty good go-kart.
Every American can drive, and the old man turned his head, he was a skilled worker, and from his conversation, he knew that he had done a lot of work: slipways, lathes, construction, but he was older than the bosses needed, so in 1930 he was honored to join the army of the unemployed.
Huang Xuan raised his head and looked out, which was still some distance from the suburbs of Detroit, and the black guy who drove him had charged him an extra 10 cents for it, and there were not many places to enter the Ford factory except for the conspicuous gate in front of him.
Huang Xuan felt that he could wait a little longer. He observes the well-dressed Americans, who apparently don't have a high quality of life. If Americans in the 21st century were to choose, 1931 would have been an even more painful time than 1943, a safe continent where the fear of poverty was far greater than that of the Nazis.
"Hi, boy." Uncle Latin America raised his palm, patted Huang Xuan, who was reading the information alone, and said, "They need two drivers, which is rare, don't waste it." ”
Huang Xuan inevitably withdrew his gaze from the energy screen, and it was still the man in the brown coat who was recruiting, Huang Xuan grabbed the densely woven metal at the corner of his clothes and walked in.
There were almost 300 people vying for these two positions, and a few big men with strong bodies were eager to try, and the others were not far behind.
"We need two people, drive these two cars from Green Village here every day, and we have to load and unload the goods by ourselves,......" The supervisor talked to himself, and the others listened very carefully, and as soon as he finished speaking, someone shouted: "I have driven a car for 20 years, even if it is a delivery, there is no problem." ”
"Then why don't you send it." Someone immediately retorted, and Huang Xuan looked around.
This is on the periphery of Rouge, with a kilometre of employees in and out, and a row of tall bungalows in front of Huang Xuan, unlike the dilapidated East End, the newly built Rouge factory is new and modern, and although there is no bright glass structure, the huge equipment of pure machinery still reflects its strength.
While the job seekers were arguing, several white men in old-fashioned suits came up, and the man in the coat immediately walked up and laughed loudly: "Mr. Thomas, what do you need?" ”
"A few draftsmen, and skilled workers who can read the drawings." Thomas glanced around at everyone, and obviously noticed Huang Xuan, in a group of barbarians in their 30s, there was a yellow-skinned guy with fine skin and tender meat, which naturally attracted attention.
The brown coat agreed, and ordered the more than 100 people in front of him to stay here and go out to shout by themselves. During the Ford era, 35,000 people needed to be recruited each year to maintain the demand for 50,000 workers, in other words, 70% of the workers at the Ford plant left each year. The situation is similar at other plants, which is the main reason why Ford introduced the $5 system. Despite this, there is still a high turnover of workers, and the cost of recruiting skilled workers is far less expensive than training new apprentices.
"Filipinos?" Thomas didn't have anything to do, walked near Huang Xuan, and asked.
"Pretty much." Huang Xuan has no interest in discussing nationality with anyone.
Instead of receiving the expected answer, Thomas whistled and said to his colleague in a black suit next to him, "There are more and more smugglers now, it's disgusting." ”
The other party shrugged his shoulders, and Huang Xuan raised his eyebrows, ignoring this possible racist, this animal is everywhere, and he has no time to play with them.
But it was another guy with a beard who smiled lewdly and said, "I bet he needs work, and he looks like he needs it." ”
"Looks like he's not in the right place." Thomas cracked his mouth and laughed.
At this time, five more people came over in the distance, and the leading guy laughed from afar, and said, "Maybe he needs it." ”
"Oh, Julien, do you need it?"
Many people laughed, and Huang Xuan knew what they were talking about, so he took out the remaining 5 cents from his pocket, flicked it with his thumb, threw it on the ground, and booed Thomas, "Honky, it looks like you need this." ”
Honky is a contemptuous term for white people, just like white people say nigger, when black people despise white people, this word is usually used, Huang Xuan's words, the people present immediately burst into laughter.
It's not that this sentence is really interesting, they just like to watch the fun. Detroit is a hard-hitting city where the game between workers is usually football, and the unprotected collision is refreshing, and Huang Xuan said this to eight white men, which obviously caused a brawl.
However, except for the Ford guys, everyone else, whether black or white, stood on a neutral stand, waiting to see the show. Although the guy from Ford Company was wearing a suit, his arms could still wrap around Huang Xuan's waistline, and it seemed that he had no chance.
Huang Xuan also knew that he couldn't beat the eight white people in front of him, but he still looked at Thomas and the others with contempt, slowly walked out of the crowd, and said, "I'll beat 1 cent, and I can knock you down with only two punches." ”