LABOR: Surprise Party

During the past three years. Ford Motor Co., although its big River Rouge plant remains unorganized, has not been able to avoid all contact with organized labor. As local unions of the United Automobile Workers of America established contact with Ford management in regional assembly plants, potent Personnel Director Harry H. Bennett announced in Detroit that Ford's basic labor policy had not changed. Last week Mr. Bennett had occasion to say this again.

One day a plain Ford sedan disgorged Mr. Ford at the door of the company's administration building in Dearborn. He loped into Mr. Bennett's office and called out:...

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