Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1941 — Page 4

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By EDWIN A. LAHEY cussion of Mr. Ford’s recent reversal

Indi 5 {of policy, which caused labor baiters y ang The: Ghicaeo Darl Neve. In - ot {throughout the land to suffer from

DETROIT, Aug. 13.—The cliarae. |shock and hemorrhage.

: | Mr. Murray's influence upon the ter and the integrity of Philip Mur- | ‘aged magnate was vicarious, since

ray, plus the results of a Labor Ford himself had no active part in Board election, were the determin- (the settlement of the U. A. W. strike ing factors in the Henry Ford de-| last April nor the negotiations out cision to grant a closed shop con- of which grew the sensational victract, with a check-off, to the Unit- tory for the union. He was coned Automobile Workers (C. I. O)). vinced, however, by reports of Mr. Ford’s alter ego, Harry H. Bennett, Bennett’ s dealings with Murray, that who is known on both sides of the [the C. I. O. was not trying to take tracks around here as “the little fel- his plant away from him. low,” paid this tribute to the presi- | Mr. Ford has not changed his dent of the C. I. O. today in a dis- {opinion about unions as a whole,

Mr. Bennett said, “but he and the] company, nevertheless, are leaning over backward to make this union contract work.” Mr. Ford's opinion about unions in genéral, which Mr. Bennett said has been widely misinterpreted and misquoted, is that management brings unionism on itself, through needless friction. Mr. Bennett added the opinion that the only thing that the Ford workers have now that they didn’t have before their contract was the seniority system. “What satisfied Mr. Ford,” Mr. Bennett continued, “was the type of man we were dealing with in Mr.

Murray. The C. I. O. president convince Mr. Ford that he was not after him. Nor did he represent anybody who was after him.” This fear of finance capitalism being “after” Ford is genuine and based upon experience. “Certain people in the East have told the C. I. O. people to go after Ford and let them alone,” Mr. Bennett said. Local officials of the National Labor Relations Board were aiso after the Ford hide, Mr. Bennett pointed

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Integrity Of Philip Murray Convinced Ford To Accept CIO. Contract, Says Harry Bennett

out. A condition of the auto workers’ closed shop contract was that]

the pending Labor Board cases|

‘WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18, 1941

against Ford be dropped. From sources other than the company, it was learned that Phil .Murray had a tough job swinging local Labor Board people to agree to this, since they had built up a dramatic case against Ford and didn't want to throw the long rehearsed show out the window.

The drastic concessions of the]

U. A. W. contract were no mere “all or nothing” whim of either Ford ®r Bennett, nor was there any subversive intention to load the union with such responsibility that it would wreck itself, Mr. Bennett said. “Mr. Ford had seen the result of

grudging and halfway recognition on the part of other companies.” Mr. Bennett said. “Constant bickering, work stoppages, and turmoil happened then. He decided that since the men had voted for a union, they should have one, and a good one. “We are going to carry out Mr. Ford’s intentions, and he is sincere in wanting the men to get the benefits out of this, if there are to be benefits. We want the thing to work because if it doesn’t, we are the ones who will suffer.” The union leaders, Mr. Bennett,

or smooth labor relations under|union. Mr. Ford's reasons are the the contract. One suspects, without exact patterns of those argued by being officially told, that Ford fore-|President Murray of the C. I. O, men are under strict discipiine to|that the closed shop permits union avoid friction with the exultant new discipline and prevents unauthore unionists, and that shop stewards, ized work stoppages, and that the on their part, are under a similar check-off does away with the ine discipline from the union to keep|evitable bickering of the dues cole them from throwing their weight lector at the factory.

around. ren The thing that astounded most FIRE HOUSE EMBARRASSED PHILADELPHIA (U. P.).—Engine

students of Henry Ford was his agreement to the closed shop and|Co. No. 4 brought the mountain to the check-off of union dues, Re It ran its engine out which the company deducts $1 a|front to put out a blaze which bad-

said, as well as company officials, month from the pay of its 120,000 \ly damaged the roof of the fire

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