The eight hour day, forty hour week was a key victory won by the persistent efforts of the trade union movement (and anarchists and socialists). Mr Ford seems

The eight hour day, forty hour week was a key victory won by the persistent efforts of the trade union movement (and anarchists and socialists). Mr Ford seems to have been writing a clever justification for a pre-emptive capitulation. And it seems to have been a good piece of business for him. But it is Labour Day, not Henry Ford Day.