The daily worker., 1926-12-14
Henry Ford Displays His
Ignorance With Another
Wild Attack on the Jews
BY }. LOUIS ENepAHL.

IL ENRY FORD has come out with
IL another attack on the Jews.
This time he has been egged to ac-
ton by Oscar Strauss, the New
York r-philanthropist, who de-
nounced the Detroit fiivver kaiser
before the national council on Pale
stine, meeting in Boston.
Ford launches his assault against
the Jew along three lines: ~ That
he controls all the financial centers;
(2) That he owns the press or con-
trolls it; (3) That he controls the
revolutionary elements of the world.
Ford's arguments grow directly
out of his own economic position.
He tried to finance his own enter
prices without the aid Of Wall St.,
which means in spite of the power
welded by finance capital. In at
tacking the Jewish bankers, he
merely crystallizes his opposition
against Wall st. on the heads of
group of fnanciers that has been
especially successful in the money
marts Of the world since the days
when trade and commerce first be-
gan. But the Jewish bankers are
merely a part, big part to be
sure, but merely part of the whole
human element that enters into the
capitalist structure, which includes
Ford and which Ford will not at
tack.
Having money and power, and
desiring more money and power un-
der capitalism, it is only reasonable
to expect that Jewish financiers,
like all other money lords, should
buy up newspapers and other Pc
riodicals as propaganda mediums,
Ford does the same He puts huge
sums into his publication under the
high-sounding name ofh"The Dear
born Independent" which is inde-
pendent of nothing. It is a slave
of Ford's ideas, voicing Ford's
views, Just as much as the operator
on Screw No. 11,001 is enslaved to
that screw, or, exercising any spirit
of independence is quickly fired.
That finance capital, especially its
Jewish section, should own more
newspapers, more movie houses,
more theaters, than are TO be found
in the possession of independent
capitalists, of which Ford is the
most prominent type, is only an ad-
mission Of the weakness of the posi-
ton of the independent industrial
capitalists.
Ford, Of course, ties himself in
a complete knot when he continues
his argument to its ridiculous con-
clusion by declaring that the Jew
(the international jew controls
the revolutionary elements in the
world, on the one hand, and the
ultra-conservatives on the other, so
he has equal power in Communistic
Russia and in capitalistic England"
inferring that the Russian Jewish
| Communist is working hand in
glove with the British Jewish fl
nance capitalist against the inter-
ests of Henry Ford, which Ford in
terprets no doubt to be the inter-
ests of the whole American people,
or "the common people of the
| world"
There is no doubt that the Jew
ish people exercise a tremendous
power, and play a considerable role
in the activities of the world. But
the Jewish people, like all other
races and nationalities, are divided
along class lines, into great capital
lists, small capitalists, numerous
middle class elements and the great
masses of workers, which also have
their various categories.
Ford will not admit that there is
/ such a thing as class struggle.
| He doesn't see the necessity for
any, not even for trade union, let
alone a Communist Party. He offers
his form of paternalism as the cure
for all society's ills.
II Ford were really interested in
fighting the Jewish finance capital
lists then he would support the So
cial elements that make war upon
these capitalists. the outstanding
| claimant heinp the lavish workers
But he will not do this. because
Ford is himself capitalist fighting
the workers.
The struggle among the Jewish
people themselves is best typified in
the garment industry. Here the
bankers help the industrialists f.
nance their enterprises and join
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