Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the opening of the C.I.O.'s official campaign to unonize the Ford Motor Company and the news of the ensuing riots and bloodshed the reading public will feel, in all likelihood, a wave of resentment against John Lewis and his group. When a country topples slowly into economic chaos no one thinks to improve his condition by refusing to work. Work and the chance to earn an honest living appear as the greatest benefits to mankind and woe to him who willfully throws up this Godsend to baggle for more money or shorter hours...
...which the goal is not better conditions for the working men but increased war-chests and amplified political power--these strikes are supremely dangerous, flagrantly illegal in every sense and potential tinder-boxes for they will result in a desperate industrial war sooner or later. The Ford Company from the first day of the depression maintained its policy of exceptionally high wages for all, fairness toward all employees and better working and living conditions than has ever been seen in the history of industry. The Ford Company cannot be accused of discrimination, oppression or intimidation of its employees. Rather...
...caused "Sep" Winner to write Give Us Back Our Old Commander: Little Mac, the People's Pride. Copies of the song were confiscated; Winner was almost jailed for treason, but the song swept through the whole Union Army. In spite of the interdict, Julia Mortimer sang it in Ford's Theatre in Washington. Give Us Back Our Old Commander was used as a campaign song when McClellan ran for President against Lincoln in 1864, used again, with the name changed, when Grant was considering a third term...
Though probably no fairer and more farsighted employer lives in America, Mr. Ford does not embrace leftist viewpoints. His philosophy is that of the small business man on a large scale; only over his dead body would he permit the abolition of competition and the control of industry by either the government or Wall Street or even labor. It might well be his ideal for business to control the others. Likewise, it would appear that he hates the pillars of the Republican party as much as he detests most of the New Deal policies...
...view of Mr. Ford's interest in the welfare of the individual worker and his conservative but same attitude upon current problems, it is not wild to suggest that if he were to run on an independent ticket for President in 1940, he would have a large following. But whether he likes it or not, the as the stick of government has grown. As taxes promise to play a leading role in industry, so is labor determined to have its say. H. V. Kaltenborn's prophecy last night in Phillips Brooks House that there will be five years cannot...