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09-03-2019, 05:23 PM | #21 |
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Interesting Joe K. that is one expensive dinner!
I have also read that the other car co's were pissed when Henry did this, because the employees for Packard, etc were quitting to go work for Ford. |
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Hank the deuce took over Ford in '45..look a little deeper than Sorenson's biography,you will fine Bennett was deeply entwined with Willow Run and other endeavors outside of his security duties.
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09-03-2019, 05:44 PM | #23 |
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It all comes down to "what's it worth to you?" I spent 20 years in "this man's Navy (USN)" and it was paternalistic. Base pay, housing allowance, food allowance, flight pay, free medical and dental for me. free medical for my dependents. AND THEY TOLD ME WHERE TO BE, AND WHAT TO DO 24/7/365/20. The was a commissioned sales rep for 19 years. If I sold, I made money. Owner (really) didn't care about my life or family although they acted like they did.
"You pays your money and takes your choices" or whatever. I'll bet a lot of men would jump at $5.00 a day and some BS instead of whatever they were making and "nice people" to work for. Henry did it because it worked for him. Workers did it because it worked for them. Typical Henry Ford, own it all, keep people working. Unions changed things and that's why we drive foreign cars (my Chrysler T&C made in Canada) and foreign cars are made in the southern USA. And UAW talking about striking? |
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Or perhaps Havana's finest? Joe K
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Henry II was called back out of the Navy to take his fathers position at Ford in 1943 after Edsel died. Henry number 1 was the only one in charge but he had already had two strokes and was not in good mental condition. The War Department knew it and talked about taking over. The Ford family which included Edsel's widow and Clara Ford made sure that Henry II took over the every day running of the plant as vice president in early 1944. He eventually became president in 1945 but he had already been running things for a year before that. Henry Ford was not in good mental health and Harry Bennett tried to take advantage of that situation. Bennett had to go so Henry II asked John Bugas to fire him which he did without getting shot. If you look up Harry Bennett, all he managed was what was referred to as the Service Department which was actually just a security team to watch the gates and the employees plus handle union labor talks. He did all this at Henry Fords request. Henry had him harass his own son which was a terrible thing to do to Edsel and I'm sure hastened his death from stomach cancer. I've read many first hand accounts of folks that worked at Ford so I'm not pulling anyones leg here. This information is not made up. I've never seen the information about Bennett presented in any other way. Last edited by rotorwrench; 09-03-2019 at 07:09 PM. |
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The Wikipedia entry I referenced earlier passes quickly over Harry Bennetts rise to "replace Henry Ford" - which almost happened - and his fall.
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Take a minute,download and read Al Smiths history..besides a fantastic look at engine development and production issues he gets into the Meade Bricker/Charles Sorenson /Harry Bennett dynamic,and Bennetts cohorts like Rauch..Ford wasnt run like GM with a smart corporate culture..there were cliques and power struggles at Ford,waste,fraud and abuse,it got worse the older Henry got. The Deuce fixed alot of it with the whiz kids and some GM people,but Ford Motor during the war and before was a very interesting company. There are other real good histories in the collection, Harold Hicks,Eugene Farkas and Lawrence Sheldrick to name a few..the trials and tribulations of the model a development.. |
09-04-2019, 11:24 AM | #29 |
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Ford Motor Company sanitized it for a reason. It was a family reputation to worry about. Henry was getting more paranoid as time went by and it just got worse when the old timers started retiring. He knew less and less people around the plants and he didn't trust anyone he didn't know. Harry Bennett would hang out with him and was really his henchman. Harry had so many of his cronies working under him that were less than reputable that he likely didn't know what all was going on behind his own back. Henry had a dark side that was made worse by failing mental health. Harry did what ever Henry told him to do. The family got together on this and decided enough was enough. Getting rid of Harry would show Henry that they had had enough and it worked. Harry Bennett was not a Ford so he had no chance of ever taking over. Much of the information about this stuff was kept from the public until the old timers started writing their memoirs and telling their first hand experiences for transcript into the Ford Archives. The public at large didn't know about any of it at the time as it would have been a scandal.
I've read most of the transcribed histories and they all seem to back each other up. |
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The news said that the leadership is under Federal investigation for fraud and all sorts of financial misappropriations.
At a local Labor Day parade Monday there were UAW members marching with signs denouncing the national leaders Looks like somebody got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. |
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and you thought Jimmy Hoffa was dead..
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09-04-2019, 05:38 PM | #32 |
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Ain't it just Grand! GM is losing in there inflow versus outflow and the union wants to authorize strikes. They may end up kicking a dead horse on that one. I guess GM, Ford, & Fiat are all coming up for contracts.
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This is an interesting discussion! But I've noticed a number of "armchair experts" that seem to know more about the inner workings of Henry Ford's mind than Henry himself knew! Or were some blank spaces filled in with conjecture and supposition??
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If you read the oral histories you'll find those who succeeded at Ford Motor were smart enough not to question him.Those who did,did so at their own peril..there is more than one recounting of how subtle Mr Ford was,often a man never knew what caused him to lose favor with him,at his own peril..read Harold Hick's interview for a good example.
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09-05-2019, 12:46 AM | #35 |
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My dad and his brother worked in the Kansas City Ford plant in 1928. Dad was 18 years old and came of the farm so he was no stranger to hard work. He told me their were many days after work that he was so tired he would have to rest before he could catch the street car to go home. Many nights too tired to eat supper. He told me it was the hardest job he ever had.
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If you want to find out even a little bit about what a person like Henry Ford was like, all you can do is read the first hand accounts about him. There is no other way to know now and each person had different experiences. Some were good and some were bad so you have to read between the lines and get to know something about each one of the story tellers. What opinion you have or conclusion you come to is always an assumption. It's just human nature.
If you don't read the accounts for yourself then you will always be hearing someone elses opinion or conclusion which sort of muddys the waters. |
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To what book are you referring?
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