My their is that this was a propaganda piece used against social organizing.

Mohawk Valley Formula propaganda.

Noam Chomsky has described the formula as the result of business owners' trend away from violent strikebreaking to a "scientific" approach based on propaganda. An essential feature of this approach is the identification of the management's interests with "Americanism," while labor activism is portrayed as the work of un-American outsiders. Workers are thus persuaded to turn against the activists and toward management to demonstrate their patriotism.

• Don't antagonize the system.
  
• The community is in harmony.
  
• Everyone is paid enough, and your problems are your fault.
  
• Do not discuss them, so you won't realize that the game is rigged against you. * Accept that you can do nothing about it.
  
• Shut up. Get back to work.
  

I've never found confirmation of my theory, but I have a nagging feeling about this particular idea that can't explain. It fits the spirit of the Mohawk Valley propaganda form. It politely says, "shut up, and don't make waves".

I don't like it.