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Ford River Rouge and the UAW organizing movement - a history lesson from Socialist Action
While looking for a site to give further details on Plant tours for the revitalized Ford River Rouge Michigan plant, I stumbled upon this article from the online newspaper Socialist Action. This describes the turmoil at the plant in the course of UAW organizing in 1941.

when anybody asks you why autoworkers make so much money with so little (average) education, just point them here and to other sites which show what the current workers forefathers went through to get good wages and working conditions. And this is at Ford! Even before Ford was unionized, Henry Ford was outspoken about a fair wage for a fair day's work. It was important to him that his workers could afford to buy the products that he produced. How many global companies that hire workers in the lowest wage countries give a hoot about whether their workers can afford what they make?

By the way, I don't know beans about Socialist Action. I don't necessarily agree with what they have to say.

1941: Ford River Rouge