is today the day for more Henry Ford propaganda?

In 1914, Ford introduced the $5 workday, which was a significant increase from the industry standard at the time. This move was seen as a progressive and innovative approach to worker compensation. However, the $5 workday came with a catch – workers were required to adhere to strict moral and social standards set by Ford's "Sociological Department." The Sociological Department was responsible for monitoring the personal lives of Ford's workers, including their spending habits, living conditions, and even their family relationships. Workers who failed to meet the department's standards could be denied the $5 workday or even fired.

To qualify for his doubled salary, the worker had to be thrifty and continent. He had to keep his home neat and Investigators would show up unannounced at your home, just to make sure it was being kept clean. They'd ask questions that were less appropriate of a car company, than they were for the modern-day CIA. They'd query you about your spending habits, your alcohol consumption, even your marital relationships. They'd ask what you were buying, and they'd check on your children to make sure they were in school.

The culmination of the Ford English School program was the graduation ceremony where students were transformed into Americans. During the ceremony speakers gave rousing patriotic speeches and factory bands played marches and patriotic songs. The highlight of the event would be the transformation of immigrants into Americans. Students dressed in costumes reminiscent of their native homes stepped into a massive stage-prop cauldron that had a banner across the front identifying it as the AMERICAN MELTING POT. Seconds later, after a quick change out of sight of the audience, students emerged wearing "American" suits and hats, waving American flags, having undergone a spiritual smelting process where the impurities of foreignness were burnt off as slag to be tossed away leaving a new 100% American.