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Question: Did Henry Ford support labor unions?

My friend said that he did, but I thought that he did not. His policy of Welfare Capitalism promoted better working conditions for the workers so that they could produce more, but it didn't support unions. To my knowledge he was very much against them, and even gave people positions to squash union organizing.

Answer: Surely your friend jests. Henry Ford never supported labor unions and would come back if he could, to fight them.

Fulton County pays dearly for jobs effort

By JC REINDL BLADE STAFF WRITER LYONS, Ohio - The vision in Fulton County was to turn water into jobs and tax receipts. The way to do that was a 12-inch pipeline to run nearly three miles from the village of Lyons to the Teleflex automotive component plant, a white-metal-sided building encircled by corn and soybean fields along State Rt. 120 in Royalton Township. Teleflex, which at the time in ...

Chautauqua 2006: Henry Ford (Part 2)