Reply #36: Or how Harvey Bennett used to have Reuther put in the hospital...

[BiggJawn]

Bennett was Ford's "Chief Goon", head of the "Sociologoical department" that used to intrude on Ford workers when they were at home to make sure they were spending that fabulous dollar-a-day on "Wholesome" pursuits, also to make sure that the single women who worked for Ford were staying in proper rooming houses, and not keeping house alone...(horrors)

When the UAW tried to organize Ford, Bennett changed over to C-in-C of Ford's private army of thugs who would come OFF the company property and beat Union organizers and pickets sensless on the public street, then claim the Union men were "Tresspassing".Reuther was put in the hospital more than once from the Ford-sanctioned beatings he got. If any Ford worker was found to have joined the UAW, he was immediately fired and "escorted" off the property by Bennett's Goons. Some of them were never seen alive again.

We never hear about the blood that was shed or the men who died to get us things like an 8-hour day and paid sick leave. But we heard PLENTY about how Ford started the "Dollar a Day" wage. What bullshit! It wasn't because he "loved" his workers and wanted to treat them fair, he just wanted to keep the UAW out.