MANUFACTURING: Pay for Time Off

Into the pay envelope of many an employee of the Aeronautical Products, Inc. plant in Detroit went a German banknote (see cut) and a brief note of explanation:

"The extra pay enclosed is your reward for failing to report for work one day last week.

"This money comes from a country that is glad to pay you not to make supplies for our soldiers.

"When you don't work, you work for the enemy."

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