Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast River Rouge plant (TIME, June 7). the Labor Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel Ford or any other officer of the company but by Harry H. Bennett, personnel director and head of the Ford police, better known as "Ford service men." Though the Ford answer denied both the charges and the Labor Board's jurisdiction over workers employed in local manufacture-thus laying the foundation for a probable Supreme Court challenge-the Labor Board...
...weeks ago U. A. W. announced another attempt to pass out literature at the Rouge plant but the plan was suddenly abandoned. Newshawks and photographers had risen at dawn to be on hand. When nothing happened Harry Bennett invited them in for breakfast in the Administration Building, where Ford executives lunch each day. Henry Ford had apparently decided he needed the Press on his side.* After the Battle of the Overpass, Mr. Bennett's service men had ripped notebooks from reporters' hands, confiscated films, chased one photographer for five miles until he took refuge in a police station...
Unsoftened by Mr. Bennett's hospitality the reporters and cameramen proved the Labor Board's best witnesses. Opening his hearings in Detroit three weeks ago, the Labor Board trial examiner, John T. Lindsay, confined the early sessions to the Battle of the Overpass, though Louis J. Colombo, the Ford lawyer, protested that that was a matter for local officials, not the Labor Board. Mr. Colombo, senior partner of Detroit's Colombo, Colombo & Colombo, is often compared in voice, ability and courtroom manner to another famed lawyer of Italian extraction, Manhattan's Ferdinand Pecora. During the hearings...
Then the Labor Board started to draw from a long procession of onetime Ford employes their story of Fordism v. Unionism. In as well as out of the River Rouge plant, Mr. Bennett's service men were the villains. They could be spotted, said the witness, by their broken noses, cauliflower ears and the fact that they never worked, only watched. One of their jobs was to enforce Ford's rigid rule against talking on the job. Another was to see that the men maintained their pace. Witness after witness told how he had been suddenly taken from...
...play to this Federal hearing, nonetheless a significant feature of labor-law-employer relations, developed in Detroit last week when Common Pleas Judge Ralph W. Liddy ordered eight Ford "service" men held for trial for assault and battery during the Battle of the overpass. Included was Harry Bennett's subhead of the Ford service department Everett Moore. None sent to trial was Italian...