Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid discord, one thing every United Automobile Worker could agree on, however, was that the first and biggest obstacle in their union path was Henry Ford. The delegates stamped and whistled when Wisconsin's labor-loving Governor Philip Fox La Follette observed: "Henry Ford is probably a nice fellow personally. . . . He just doesn't understand modern trends. He has his feet in 1937 and his head in 1837." Cried Homer Martin: "We'll say 'Henry, if you want to continue to make and sell autos in America, you'd better get ready...
...Henry Ford," he rumbled, "may believe that he is the biggest industrialist in America; he may believe that his will is superior to the will of his employes; he may believe that he is bigger than the United Automobile Workers; he may believe that he is bigger than the Congress of the United States when he refuses to abide by the Wagner Act enacted by the Congress; he may believe all these things, but if he does he is going to be a tired old man pretty soon...
After the Lewis speech the delegates, pounding, shouting, waving their banners, unanimously adopted a motion calling for a special assessment of $1 on each member to raise a war chest for the drive on Ford. "We'll be in before snow flies," said Homer Martin. That was the signal for a long demonstration with the convention band blaring Solidarity Forever...
...Dearborn, Mich., news of the oncoming drive was conveyed to Harry Bennett, Henry Ford's private police chief and spokesman, whose men were accused in a National Labor Relations Board hearing of beating U. A. W. organizers at the Ford plant last May. Said he: "We never made an agreement with the U. A. W. and we never will...
...Curtiss-Wright Corp., vice president of Eastern Air Transport, president of North American Aviation, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. But he has continued to run Sperry and currently he has offices in Manhattan as president of Sperry Corp., a holding company owning Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., Ford Instrument Co. Inc. (rangefinders, etc.), Waterbury Tool Co. (hydraulic variable speed transmissions), Vickers. Inc. (hydraulic pumps), Intercontinent Corp. (exporters of U. S. aircraft and aeronautical products). Last week Sperry Corp. issued its statement for the first half of 1937-net profits from operations $1,186,000, up almost100% from the same...