The Washington times., 1922-08-10
WALkOUTS
bLAMEDON.
INTERESTS
Claims Wall Street FaSors
Workers in Organizations.
FaintIy Praises Harding.
By InternatlonaI Sew. serrlee.

ny International News Service.
CLAYTON. N. Y. Aug. To-
Muzz:e the money kings Of Wall
Street II you would stop industrial
disputes.
That is the remedy offered by
Henry Ford, Detroit auto king and
potential Presidential candidate in
an interview here, Ford, ao-
companied by his wife and DR.. and
Mrs ]. M. Thompson. OF Detroit.
are en- route to Boston travelling on
tne Ford yacht, Sialia.
AssaiIs Labor Unions.
AT the same time, Ford assailsd
mDor unions as being engineered by
capitalists and leaders OF finance,
who know that with their workers
organized into units they can be
handled with twice the effectiveness
they could be handled were they split
INTO factions, unorganized and work
Inc alone.
World Peace Near.
During the course of his talk with
Newspaper men. Ford declared:
The nations are slowly moving to-
ward world peace. Business 10 now
normal. Harding has done pretty
WNtl III us TERM Oh OIIlCe.
Can the present coal and rail
. strikes be settled by compromise o.
will the issue Of leadership In indus.
try be fought out to the end this
ume?" was the first question asked
OF Mr.. Ford.
He looked the interviewer straight
In the eye as he replied emphaticaily:
There can be no settlement Of
these strikes so long as the moneyed
interests Of Wall Street continue in
their efforts to dominate American
industry. They are behind these
walkouts as they are behind every
disturbance In the ranks Of labor or
capital. Get them and you will sue
coed 10 bringing industrial peace"
What is the remedy for the ever.
lasting battles for supremacy be.
tween labor and capital, Mr.. Fordf"
he was then asked. -
II have already told you one fair
means Of dealing with the situation,
but ! think that there In another
which might prove just as effica.
cious. Let the manufacturers and
the owners Of industries treat their
men like men, let them pay q living
wage and give them working condi.
tons conducive to self.expression and
YOU will have gone far toward elm.
mating strife. Too many manufac.
tureres are not following this policy
now"
Financiers Form Unions.
Then came the most startling state
ment OF the interview.
II expressed perfectly Henry Ford's
idea OF the powers behind labor
unions and his notions to their effec-
tiveness.
Labor unions?" he demanded.
DO you realize how these unions
are formulated and for what res-
sons? There isn't a union In the
country formed primarily by the men
themselves, or run for their benefit.
They are all engineered by capitalists
and leaders Of finance who know that
with their workers organized into
units they can be handled with twice
the effectiveness they could be han.
died were the men split into factions.
upofganized and working alone. Tae
CHEAT principle in business Is orga nj.
zation and nobody knows this any
better than the progressive lights of
business. What have they done? In
their desire to control more intimate.
ly the working man they have sn.
couraged his organization into
unions. and with him and his fellows
together they can force them more
readily to their will.
"The nations of. the world are
surely, IL slowly, on the way to
world peace" he said. Perhaps II
will take years for the hope to come
through, but 1t will come. De.
stroy the power of men to whom
war is a means for gain, break
down the influence of those who
bring on war for their own
mercenary ends, and the result will
be easy Of accomplishment. For
peace il the normal existence--an
existence held off only because
some few men want war with its
attendant profits
"How do you regard the business
outlook?" he was asked.
I'VE hear much talk about the