The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-26
YOUR RICHNESS,
WILL YOU TOSS
NE The SAPOLIO?'
Ford Factory a Home for
Jobless Mobiles

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Mich.
Wheels are roaring. Parts are drop
ping out of machines like coffee from
a grinder. Guides are escorting visi-
tors thru the factory to show them
how furiously and tediously Henry
Ford's organization can make men
toll.
Two non-American men in shop
toys are washing windows.
your Highness, will you toss me
the sapolio?" one of the two says to
the other.
In another department are two 9TH
er similar men. One of them says:
would you lend me your wrench
moment, Duke?"
A Godfather to Monarchists.
The four men are Russians. The
two addressed as "Your Highness"
and Duke" are members Of the form.
er Russian nobility. The reason they
are working at the Ford Motor Co. is
that Henry Ford is their fairy god
father. Only as all good fairy god
fathers he believes men ought to do
a little work. He cracks the whip
over the ordinary worker. He waves
the wand lightly over these refugees.
These two former noblemen, who
still believe they are noble, are only
two of many members of the former
nobility and czarist army who have
been given jobs at the Ford Motor
Co. The head of the Russian mon.
archist underground movement in the
United States is Boris Brasol, of New
York City. His agent in Detroit is
Gregory .Shinkarenko, former lieuten-
ant on the cars royal yacht, the
Polar Bear. Shinkarenko is among
other things employment agent for
the hungry helpless white guard refu.
gees who drift into the middle west,
dreaming of a restoration.
Henry Has Illusions. ia
Henry Ford also is dreaming of
restoration. 1t is believed here that
the old nobility of Mother Russia have
promised him vast lands and conces-
sions in return for his hospitality"
Probably many contracts have been
written in water to bind the dukes
and counts and princes to their So
! called word of honor.
Two years ago Madam Alexandra
Gomberg was in Detroit to see Henry
Ford, according to an interview pub
lished in a daily paper here. She saiC
in the interview Ford had given he
son Alexander contract in connec
ton with Ford's reported intention
building a plant in Russia. On the
death of Alexander in France in the
war the contract, she continued, was
transferred to a second son, Oscar.
He was killed later fighting on the
Russian front. Her reason for com
ing to see Ford, she said, was to in
duce him to transfer the contract to
third son, an employee at the fac
tory here. Carrying out such a con.
tract, of course, would depend on the
overthrow Of the Bolsheviki.
The Tall Of the Romanoffs.
A year ago last fall three strangers
arrived in Detroit-a woman and two
men. They went to the most expes
i've hotel. Every day while they were
there, CHARTERED in suite Of rooms,
luxurious automobile was sent to the
hotel for them. Shinkarenko was
chauffeur of the car. The party drove
frequently between the hotel and Dear
born, where Ford has his home and a
part of his plant. When they left
Ford paid the hotel bill.
The woman in that party of three
was Nadedhda Romanoff Orion. One
OF the men was her husband, Prince
Orion. The second man was named
Sokoloff. He died recently in Paris
He was formerly Russian Judge who
disguised as a peasant, smuggled into
Europe the first report of the execu-
ton Of the Russian royal family. At
the time of his death he was engaged
in completing a 10-volume work about
the last of the Romanovs. II was to
be his life's greatest work. Prince
orloff's wife is daughter of Grand
Duke Peter.
In certain circles Of Detroit, and
presumably elsewhere, former nobil.
ity are still addressed by title. They
are constantly plotting and hoping.
They are well organized. Barsol was
the speaker at the Detroit open forum
few weeks ago.
Ford's Slave Pen.
While the wheels roar and 100000
men exhaust themselves in the Ford
Motor Co. plants. Ford's own home
and family are taking on more and
more OF an aristocratic appearance |
His son and only child, Edsel, is re.
ported contemplating moving east
eventually. Henry Ford has become
collector OF antiques.
His large home at Dearborn is in |
the center OF an extensive park, which
is a part OF a larger farm. on which |
the peasants" cultivate grain with
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