[I]Henry Ford knew the importance of providing people with a good wage and a secure job in order to sell his cars.
By 1915, the Great War had been going on for well over a year. Henry Ford�s attitude towards the conflict was well known to the public. He had told the Detroit Free Press that he would give all of his money to stop it and that the building of armaments by the U.S. was �wasteful and war breeding."[SUP][SIZE=-1]1[/SIZE][/SUP] At the time, the 52 year old Ford was one of the richest and most popular men in America. More than half of the automobiles in the nation came from the Ford Motor Company. Many Americans saw him as a champion of the working class; the previous year; he had made national headlines by raising the minimum wage for his workers to $5 a day.[/I]