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petehoovie · 01-08-2020, 02:43 PM

More importantly > Ford wanted his workers to be able to purchase the cars that they built... "One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers.” - "ridiculous statement"???- Way ahead of its time!

"In 1914, Henry Ford made a big announcement that shocked the country. It caused the financial editor at The New York Times to stagger into the newsroom and ask his staff in a stunned whisper, “He’s crazy, isn’t he? Don’t you think he’s crazy?”
That morning, Ford would begin paying his employees $5.00 a day, over twice the average wage for automakers in 1914.

In addition, he was reducing the work day from 9 hours to 8 hours, a significant drop from the 60-hour work week that was the standard in American manufacturing."

See > https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/...-minimum-wage/

01-08-2020, 02:43 PM	#28
petehoovie Senior Member Join Date: May 2015 Posts: 8,144	Re: A 1934 Ford Columbia Brochure Found In A Ford Dealership More importantly > Ford wanted his workers to be able to purchase the cars that they built... "One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers.” - "ridiculous statement"???- Way ahead of its time! "In 1914, Henry Ford made a big announcement that shocked the country. It caused the financial editor at The New York Times to stagger into the newsroom and ask his staff in a stunned whisper, “He’s crazy, isn’t he? Don’t you think he’s crazy?” That morning, Ford would begin paying his employees $5.00 a day, over twice the average wage for automakers in 1914. In addition, he was reducing the work day from 9 hours to 8 hours, a significant drop from the 60-hour work week that was the standard in American manufacturing." See > https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/...-minimum-wage/ __________________ The only thing nice about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.... *"Silver rings, your butt! Them's washers!"* "We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!" - from 'The Wild Bunch' - 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NReUd2_0u0 Last edited by petehoovie; 01-08-2020 at 03:23 PM.