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Brigid

(17,621 posts) Tue Jul 8, 2014, 08:33 PM Jul 2014

"How are you going to sell cars to all of these machines?"

-- Walter Reuther, president of the UAW, 1946-1970, in response to a "management person" at Ford, who some say was Henry Ford II, when the person asked how Reuther would collect union dues from all the machines on the factory floor.

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"How are you going to sell cars to all of these machines?" (Original Post) Brigid Jul 2014 OP

Nobody's laughing now Demeter Jul 2014 #1

I don't think the exchange was meant to be humorous. Brigid Jul 2014 #2

Demeter

(85,373 posts)

1. Nobody's laughing now

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2014, 08:58 PM

Jul 2014

The rich man isn't making his addiction, and the poor are starving to death.

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

2. I don't think the exchange was meant to be humorous.

Reply to Demeter (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 8, 2014, 10:22 PM

Jul 2014

I imagine a management type gleefully pointing out the machines on the factory floor as a way to beat the unions, and Reuther asking who will buy the cars if people are out of work.

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