| Now that the depression is long past us, i can reveal the secrets of my success during that period. It was here at Johnson Co. Industries (a subordinate of Johnson Global Co.) that the "magic" happened. These negro children, who worked for a shiney penny a day, stand outside the wallet making portion of the plant. I made wallets because that's what people wanted. They didn't have any money to put in them, but they wanted to give the illusion that they did. I caught onto this fact early on and produced wallets right through the 1930's and into the war. I also was the largest producer of woolen socks (which I later sold to England as part of the lend lease program) and matches. All very popular with the wigrant worker wretches. |
