ame®icano;7582444 said:yep. Henry was a good man in the beginning....his genius was to build a car his workers could buy. His early investors wanted to build cars for the rich and messed him up to the point he hated investors and swore he'd find some who would see his vision....and he did. But this lead to him being a billionaire...one of the few in the world at the time. Edsel pleaded with him to follow the others and let the uaw organize ford, but henry grew more hostile by the year until he finally hired a guy named "harry" somebody or other to crack heads....after they built river rouge, it was a gestapo atmosphere with harry's thugs watching for union organizers and beating senseless anybody who listened to them. Finally it led to gunfire. And retaliation. Ford was unionized, edsel drank himself to death, and henry went mad.
oh, there is a problem... Ford was greedy billionaire.
He made first production line, offered more then double to his workers. It wasn't enough.
Then he introduced 48 hour working week, it wasn't enough. He cut it to 40 hour and it still wasn't enough. Union wanted to get in to make their own rules. They were already in thru "communist party and their sympathizers". He resisted until 1941 when river rouge strike happened. there were fights but was no gunfire.
bullshit.
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