The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30
And Coolidge Has His Ford.


When Henry Ford deserted his political hangers
on quit the presidential race and came out with an
endorsement of Cal Coolidge for reelection, we
said that Muscle Shoals was the price involved in
the transaction. This was one count in our in
dictment in which we called upon the United
States senate to 'Impeach Coolidgew
The facts have now been presented at the Muscle
Shoals hearing before senate committee "Silent
Cal" is quoted, in telegram as having said that
he was trying ITO DELIVER" Muscle Shoals to
Henry Ford"
The strike-breaker president was not too eau
tious, nor too silent for James Martin Miller, who
sent the telegram to Ford on October II, 1923.
White House records show that Miller had an in
terview with the president on that day. Miller's
whole telegram to Ford at Detroit should be mem
orized by every worker and farmer in the land.
1t is as follows
"In private Interview had with President Coolidge
this morning, he said incidentally: am friendly to
Mr.. Ford, but wish would convey to him
that It my hope that Mr.. Ford will not do, say
anything that will make difficult for me to deliver
Muscle Shoals to him, which | am trying to do!
While the president didn't say so, sure Weeks
has been in consultation with president this morning.
in view of MIR. Fords reported interview todays
papers,"
The Detroit "open shop" Millionaire sends his
private agent to Washington to dicker with the
president for the delivering of the nations natural
into his possession-in this instance the
valuable water power rights at Muscle Shoals,
Alabama
While Coolidge makes feeble denial, Washing
ton leaks the news that it was not mere politico-
business trade, but that new testimony will show
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Shoals land to accrue to some public Official if the
deal went thru. Of which Coolidge must have been
fully aware
Thus the pretensions of the Coolidge campaign
managers, that "Cautious CaP lives on moral
plane higher and conveniently apart from that oc-
cupied by the other grafters in his cabinet
Daugherty, DENLY, Weeks, Wallace, Hoover, and
the rest-burst like so many bubbles.
Coolidge barriers Muscle Shoals, desired by Ford,
for the automobile magnates support for the presi-
dency, which Coolidge desires for another term But
Muscle Shoals belongs to the nation, and in "de-
livering" it to Ford, Coolidge is guilty of the
grossest theft of public property.
1t is coincidence that on the day the Coolidge
delivering" telegram is made public, the Ford
Motor Company issues its financial statement for
the year ending Feb. 20, 1924 showing an accumu-
lated surplus increase OF $SZ,263 4S3OU, bringing
the grand total up to 1901 OS1.OO, close to
half billion. This increase is equivalent to a
47S per cent profit on the company's capital stock
of ST., 264, 10000.
No doubt Coolidge believed that the light of day
couldn't reach this deal born in darkness in time
to do him any harm. But less than seven months
after the deal was consummated in the White
House, the facts are known. The revelations came
even before Ford was able to pocket Muscle Shoals
or Coolidge to get his denomination, not to mention
reelection.
Ford has his billions. The workers and farmers
of the nation will take care of them at the proper
But the 'strike-breaker" president, cautious
Cal" Coolidge still sits crouching in the White
House, the biggest criminal of his criminal cabinet
We say: SIMPEACH HIM!o