Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporation John L. Lewis' organizing drive captured positions in these two great open-shop industries. By last week it had gained about two-thirds of Motors, better than half of Steel. Last week the United Automobile Workers were storming at the gates of Motors' inner citadel, Ford Motor Co. The Steel Work ers Organizing Committee, having cap tured biggest U. S. Steel and most of the small fry, was pounding at the defense of three big steel independents: Republic, Youngstown, Inland. On both fronts there was blood and brutality. On one there was Death...
...Overpass. Men with queazy stomachs had no place one afternoon last week on the overpass-across the street to street car tracks-at the No. 4 gate of Henry Ford's great River Rouge plant. The union had opened its Ford campaign by hiring two vacant bank buildings near the plant, as headquarters. Next step was to print handbills calling for "Unionism not Fordism," demanding a basic $8 six-hour day for workers, better not only than Ford's present $6 eight-hour day, but better than the terms obtained from any other motor company. Third step...
...caller at the Manhattan office of Director D. T. Pierce of Consolidated Oil Corp. last week was Harvey C. Fremming, president of C. I. O.'s International Association of Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers. Laborman Fremming was not delivering an ultimatum to Harry Ford Sinclair's big company. Even if Mr. Fremming had a labor case against Consolidated, he would not go in for ultimatums. A husky, one-time footballer from the University of Washington, Laborman Fremming steps softly until he is sure of his ground. After C. I. O. announced its drive for a million...
Predecessor and unconscious mentor of most of the 19th-Century industrial titans, Mr. Rockefeller outlived them all. Hill. Harriman, Morgan, Frick, Carnegie carved their careers in the middle Rockefeller years. Mr. Rockefeller never heard of Henry Ford until his late 60s. The great group of Rockefeller partners and executives-Flagler, Rogers, Andrews, Brewster, Pratt, Archbold, Bedford, Moffett- has been gone for years.* But at no time by either word or gesture did Rockefeller ever indicate any regret for anything he ever did. Apparently there was a sharp and impenetrable wall between his conceptions of business and private morality...
...C.I.O. is not trying to organize the Ford Company from any motives of bettering conditions:--conditions cannot be bettered beyond the Ford standard for some time to come. The important fact is that organization of the Ford employees will mean approximately $6,000,000 additional dues for the C.I.O. and the complete control of the automotive industries of America--an immense and dangerous amount of power for any man or small group. That John Lewis is looking ahead to 1940 is a far more disquieting thought than that he is promising the contented Ford employees even better conditions under...