No Henry Ford Employe May Have Liquor On His Breath or at Home and Keep His Job Publication: The New York Times Date: 23 July 1924 Topic: Ford Motor Company |
Henry Ford has posted orders in all his factories warning employes that they will be summarily discharged if liquor is smelled on their breath or if they keep liquor in their homes. A copy of the order, received yesterday at prohibition headquarters here, read as follows:
“From this date on dismissal without opportunity for appeal will be the penalty imposed on any man found to have the odor of beer, wine or other liquor on his breath, or to have intoxicants on his person or in his house.
“The Eighteenth Amendment is part of the fundamental laws of this country. It was meant to be enforced and so far as our organization is concerned it is going to be enforced to the letter.”
The order was brought here by Prohibition Agent “Izzy” Einstein, who has recently returned from Detroit, where he has been making raids.
R. Q. Merrick, Chief Enforcement Agent in New York, said that Mr. Ford's action was an example of good citizenship, and proved the advance of sentiment for prohibition enforcement. Mr. Merrick said that he intended to write to large employers in New York and New Jersey, urging them to follow Mr. Ford's example, and that he would advise Federal Prohibition Director Roy A. Haynes and E. C. Yellowly, Chief of General Agents, to send out such letters nationally. Clerks at prohibition headquarters yesterday afternoon were busy preparing letters for Mr. Merrick.