The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-01
Ford and Rockefeller
Both Spawned by the
Same Capitalist System
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY, there much discussion of the profits exceeding
$1oo0o00oo taken by Henry Ford last year. 1t is said
world having finally eoipsed John D. Rockefeller and left
AMERICAS other great multmlOnarss George F Baker
the treasury, far in the
profit of SAT every car truck and tractor
that the workers in his factories produced in 1924 This
the ten months ended Dec ST. 1928 This would indicate
that the Ford hunger for profits is the increase; develop
program that during the year added nearly another
$oooooooo to the total assets of the Ford corporation
But of the alleged phenomena that has the financial
writer's worried especially those who hover about Wall
hatred the vver king Ford that they have for
Rockefeller the of oil 1t argued that that the
Rocefeers that therefore the Fords should
be hated more than the Rockefeers They wonder why
this is not so.
1t is not difficult to explain this phenomenon. The Fords
arrived late the field of American exploitation Ford fouDd
that he could get of his working them eight
hours than he could working them ten hours In
the prewar days. before the tremendous increase
of living wages Ford paid considered comparatively
good. This all hailed Ford Idea that was thoroy
exploited in books newspapers and magazines in one Of
the most widespread propaganda campaigns this country
has The Ford Idea" accepted in for
There have been no big strikes yet in the Ford plants
On the other hand cheap tractors and vers Ford
many supporters among the farmers until demand OF some
consequence arose last year in support OF the for
President" boom. Il.
nege linked with of the bloodet battles against labor
that this nation has The words Rockefeller and op
preston have to be synonymous. Rockefeller entered
the field of American exploitation long time ago. and he
built the Rockefeller fortune out of the blood and agony of
Americas working class Large of workers know
this The name of Rockefeller is anathema to millions.
But that does that Ford will soony appear
in the of the class open enemy of the work.
The Ford boom among the poor farmers burst when
the fvVer manufacturer out for Coolidge the enemy
of the farmers for president Cheap vvers and cheap
tractors have little appeal poor farmers who cannot
afford to buy these They beginning study what the
real trouble with the Ford-Coodge social system.to
not true that Ford slaves contented. One
of the militant sections of the American working class
is made those of thousands of workers that pour
daily in and of the Ford plants at Detroit Mich Yet
far Ford has managed to hold them helpless in his grip
They part of the huge Ford machine; exploited to the
last drop of their energy thrown the heap before
their time just much the workers in the OIL COAL steel
any other great industry They helpless They have
union They have yet turned TO the leadership Of the
American Communist movement But the hour of revolt will
strike. Then the whole capitalist SYSTEM with all its brutal
oppression, will stand behind Ford just it has supported
Rockefeller in all his struggles with labor. Then the Ford
myth will vanish The workers will realize that they
organize appropriate the wealth of Ford just much
they take the wealth stolen by the Rocefeers the
Melons, Bakers Garys the Morgans and all
These capitalists all part of the social system The
capitalist system alone permits the Fords tansmute the
energy of great of workers into golden stream of
profits that counted 00000000o in the year 1924 The
capitalist system must CO. And with it Ford. Capitalist
apoogists may depend that the workers will show
discrimination between the different members of plum
derbund in the final struggle for power.
TurkoF lance at Work. ca. " CT