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...true that the Lincoln people have signed [a code...
Although he maintains wages higher than, hours as short as those stipulated under the code, Henry Ford cannot stomach his workers' unionization. This antipathy is chiefly what has kept him from flying the Blue Eagle. A strike at his Edgewater, N. J. plant, whose workers demand the right of collective bargaining guaranteed by the Recovery Act, is now in the hands of the National Labor Board...
...Edsel Ford told me he would never put into effect anything that looked like collective bargaining," grimly remarked General Johnson. "As soon as I have a clear-cut violation of the code, I will act. I will turn the case over to the Attorney General...
Soon all motormakers must, under their code, send in their employment statistics to the Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Refusal by Ford to do so would make his company liable to $500 fine, somebody liable to six months' imprisonment under the Recovery...
When Henry Ford refused to sign the Automobile Code with the rest of the industry, he did so from the silent fastness of the Michigan woods. When the States of Pennsylvania, Maine and Tennessee announced they would not buy his cars, he remained silent. But now. cracked down on by the U. S. Government, the Master of Dearborn broke his silence with a long and bitter public statement. Excerpts...