MICHIGAN: Defining the Goal

Last week Henry Ford II: 1) was chosen as "Young Man of the Year" by the Junior Chamber of Commerce; 2) made the judges look mighty good. In a solid, sense-making speech to the Society of Automotive Engineers in Detroit, he told both management and labor just how they were falling down on the job.

The reason, said young Henry Ford, was a major failure in human relationship. Employer and employe were not trying to get along as individuals. Their goal must obviously be to raise the U.S. standard of living by producing more & more at lower & lower...

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