The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-02
Ford Shows There Are
More Nuts Than Those
Found on His FIivvers
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY Henry Ford upon whom some bestow the crown
of richest man in the world" again offers himself as
Ship stunt for world surely to follow on the heels
OF this idea he argues He now claims that the trouble with
the world is that doesn't know how to eat what to eat
and when to eat"
There are three necessities that every worker requires:
food clothing and shelter Ford has not yet attempted to
tell the workers how to solve the question of clothing and
shelter The housing problem of the most pressing
in every American city But he conesses he has tackled the
food problem to his satisfaction For instance ne tells
the to eaVe politics alone and study the food prob
em."
Ford, of course lodges the main issue where get
sufficient income to provide the Ideal breakfast lunch and
dinner Ford going tell the workers what he eats He
will not tell the workers how to buy the things that he eats
out of their wages, without any wages they
employed He proceeds on the supposon that the dinner
pail is full"
Fords bunk will therefore be cIassed with the
of the comic Sheets far the intelligent and militant
just propaganda in the effort of the bosses to
keep the workers contented It is Fords May Day stuff
Here is what the auto manufacturer declares:
a. bring change
unrest by feeding the world good food and teaching people what cat
and what to get"
Capitalism which is Ford's social system will never
feed the workers good food Its main interest is keep
ing down wages; which results in cutting off the workers
food supply, just surely as if working class were
completely surrounded by enemy army and its food stores
Capitalism Ford's SYSTEM sends millions of children
hungry to school every morning. is not question with
these children how to eat but what to eat There MOTH
ing for them home Free lunches at school denounced
bOSneVlSm
The is of the fathers and mothers work.
Real milk good food But working class families by the
millions can't afford it. The cheapest of substitutes
be provided for helpless babies in their cradles Ford
and his kind repeat for the workers. IAN apple day. will
keep the doctor away But the Ford system says LET the
apples in the orchards That will keep the supply down
and the prices up resulting in good profits the profits that
provide the driving motive behind the Ford capitalist sys
tenn The few apples that do drift into the congested work.
ing class districts of the great cities just anemc
the children that grab for them
Correct eating good. But it is mockery to preach
able to buy the cheapest foods It this sweed
in numbers during every industrial crisis, when unempIoy
ment stalks the land, when capitalist
to ravage the nations plungng millions to death, dis
and starvation that will shake the whole structure of
capitalism into ruins.
UnempIoyment-Ford has cure for it,
War:-n spite of his peace ship, Ford of the
most energetic supporters of the last world Ford
today being depended help furnish great air fleets for
the next
Food clothing and sheIter:-Ford does not tell, the
workers how provide these necessities for themselves
and their families All he does babbe shallow epgrams
about dieting, just he amIessy offers nostrums and
cureas for other social diseases, providing fleet
ing sensation for the yellow press. Only thru
ings of Communism, that strike the great
progress They will do this the PROSTATE form of Ford
and his kind.