The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-26

"a collective letter from a group Of
Workers In the Ford Motor COM
pany plant at Heuewisch, IT.,
suburb of chlcago.)

happen to WORK In 1t call 1t the
'slave PEN" Henry Ford is the car
OF this pen-no wonder he likes the
Russian monarchists. The superin-
tendents and foremen are slave driv-
ers. The workers are the slaves.
"Speed, Speed"
There is a blackboard in each shop.
Every hour the workers must mark
on It the number Of parts they have
produced during the hour. II any one
Of the slaves is not fast enough. the
slave driver (the foreman) tells him:
Hurry upl Show some speed
Don't you know tho Ford systemf
Speed SpeedI SpeedID
Then there is an order by the SUI
perintendent: The slave must be on
the job at 1880 In the morning. The
slave who is late even a few minutes
, is not to be allowed to work. He
loses a day.
Another order: The slaves will
have only twenty minutes for lunch.
ut used to be thirty minutes.) Henry
Ford complies with the law so he
provides his shop with wash, rooms.
But there is no time even to wash
the hands, so the slaves are COM
PEELED to eat with dirty hands.
Nobody is allowed to leave the
slave pen during the lunch time. The
doors are locked.
Robots to Make Tin Lizzies.
If Henry Ford could only do it, he
would manufacture robots who
would not need to sleep, nor eat, nor
do any other things that human be-
ings do, except TO manufacture fly
yers for him. The toilets in Ford's
slave pen are not heated in the win
ter time. This is a clever way to
keep the slaves from wasting the com
pany's time on their natural needs.
ALI that is lacking are spikes on the
seats.
slnns'0ieRe Read Henry's Bunk.
Not only does Ford enslave the
bodies of his workers, but their minds
as well. Henry Ford gives out the
order. The superintendent tells it to
the foremen. The foremen order the
workers: "Brinu $500 for two sub
scriptions to the Dearborn Indepen-
dent" And the slaves must bring the
$500; if they do not, they are fired.
On the last day of November, about
twenty workers were fired. Not one
Of these had been subscribers to the
Dearborn Independent.
1t is not by accident that every one
that was fired was not subscriber
10 the Dearborn Independent.
Henry Ford is a clever man: The
paper does not cost him a cent. In
fact, he makes a profit on it as the
workers pay for it out OF their wages
The majority of the workers in
Ford's slave pen are foreign-born.
The Dearborn Independent writes
against the foreign-born. The work
ers curse Henry Ford and his paper.
They burn this paper as soon as they
receive IL.
But, while in the slave pen, the
workers are compelled to keep their
mouths shut Henry Ford has his
spies sneaking among the workers,
listening in and reporting to the Of
flee any one who dares speak against
the system. Being unable to speak
their thoughts. the workers write.
Some one writes on the blackboard:
"FoRD PLANT-sLAvERY."
One can find things written by the
workers about Ford and his system
on the walls:
"DEARBoRN INDEPENDENT
BULL"
COOLIDGE AND FoRD-BULL."
Many of the workers understand
that Ford and Coolidge are twin
brothers. part Of the same capital
ist system which enslaves them. Ford
was supposed TO run for the presl-
dency against Coolidge, but quit at
the last moment because he was
promised that he would get, almost