 The 12,000 Liberian employees were paid low wages, because, as former employee Arthur Hayman described, the Liberian government felt that "men with money in their pockets would eventually have demanded the ballot".He was inducted as a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity for his philanthropic efforts.His grandson, William Clay Ford Jr., is the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ford Motor Company.