The average Japanese car worker earns $11 an hour plus benefits. Where has the American car maker, to mention just one phase of American manufacturing, slipped, from undisputed first place from the dawn of the automotive age to a position where they are fighting for their corporate life.

In this money-grubbing country of the USA the big outfits put their accountants in charge of production which formerly was the exclusive ground of the engineers.

You of General Motors, Chrysler and old Henry Ford’s great engineering outfit, go back to your engineers not to your accountants. Winston C. Judkins Ellsworth