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Bonus to Sign. Most of these prized migrants are unskilled and poorly educated, but they are courted and pampered like graduate engineers. As a rule they draw the same wages and fringe benefits as native employees, plus the travel expenses, low-cost housing and bonuses they were promised when they signed up. In Germany, which has the greatest need, factories and charitable organizations set up special canteens featuring workers' native dishes. Ford of Germany has spent $7,500,000 on housing for its 7,000 foreign workers, and Volkswagen built a small village with two community centers for its 4,500 Italians. The German national railroad has even bought prayer carpets for its many Moslem workers. It does not mind their turning to Mecca so long as they also turn out the work.