The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
Ford Thinks the. Liquor
Interests Are Lacking
In "Brainy Leadership"
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

ENRY FORD says prohibition in the stupid
ty of liquor leaders. He says that the opposition
brings the thing to pass The fvver manufacturer puts
this way;
"f this had been country
n liquor business had been fortunate enough to have had
leadership the question would probably have been settled in
a different manner"
Perhaps Ford in those words thought that he was
throwing flowers himself. Some there who believe
that Ford the problem of the relations between
master and slave No doubt Ford thinks will, in
time no doubt publish article in The Dearborn ndepen
dent his personal organ explaining how his "brany
pens and will perpetuate private ownership in the auto
mobile industry for all time.
But Ford errs in both instances The liquor interests
hungry as they profits like all their fellow capital
sts could be major influence in forcing prohibition no
than Henry Ford with his oveadvesed benevolence
toward his workers, can halt the abolition OF capitalism
Prohibition was imposed on the nation by the great
ndustrass seeking methods of Wringing profits
of sweating working class. They argued that prohibit
ton makes for efficiency. Judge E. H. Gary who keeps
bton for the steel workers. John D. Rockefeller wanted it
for the oil slaves while other profit kaises who had
flowing cellars of their joined in demanding Aer
sahara for the working class just the gin and uep
drinking Southern aristocrats demanded prohibition for the
Negro but reserved the right for themselves to get drunk
often they pleased It put during the hys
terica days when gasless Sundays, fhess Fridays
sugaress Thursdays with something else missing every
other day the week, imposed Prussanzed
ton dugged with paytrotism and incapable OF offering
substantial resistance.
The huge war profits and the giant graft scandals just
coming into the melght beginning to shake the
ton Even labor that had submssVey acquiesced in the
beginning to show signs of real mltancy The wet
and dry issue offered excellent smokesceen for the
makers hide their crimes. Public attention shunted
off in different direction. "Wet dry?" safe issue
for capitalism.
Industrial conditions have changed, however, and
the steel slave fatgued to the point of exhaustion
by the long day in the MILL will get his poisonous
shine where formerly he sought from his agony
in equally rotten whiskey Alcohol will remain nsoube
problem long this industrial system, that lives the
bitter toll of its slaves continues to function.
Secretary Of the Treasury ANDY" Mellon was and still
is in the Whskey business for the profits he get of
it. Henry Ford counts his profits in the industry Here
the workers atho unorganized repeatedly REBEL in small
numbers for the present. against their growing misery
Alcoholism affected either way by the that
saloon keeper took his victim home after getting all
his money instead of dumping him in the street Capitalism
made stable by the fact that Ford hires regiments
of social workers to investigate and card index his slaves
to the number of hours they spend in church
ism kaisersm. "Brainy leadership" it,
try not because the capitalists stupid
capitalists strive get every possible cent in
profits out of ensaved labor Ford takes profits greater
than any other auto car.
Workers become increasingly that capitalism
the social system of their oppressors the root of all their
When this viewpoint accepted by the great masses
then the capitalist order will be up by its and
stroyed The workers will plant and anew their own
social order, Communism