In Dearborn, Louisville, Denver, Windsor, Ont., Chester, Pa. and many another city some 100,000 men who work for Henry Ford went last week to their jobs of assembling his 1933 models, planned for display within the fortnight. Ahead of them lay the comforting prospect of many months of steady employment. But the week had not run out before notices were posted on Ford bulletin boards announcing a temporary shutdown.
The 100,000 Ford workers soon learned the cause. In Detroit, 6,000 employes of Briggs Manufacturing Co., which makes bodies for Ford, had walked out...
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