The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Anti-SemitiC Talk
Made by COughIin
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pose of his demagogic talk about
profit -sharing" when he said:
"Unless property distribution is
restored and unless the propertyless
wage workers are given some own
ership, a revolution cannot be
avoided"
He also stated: Labor should have
voice in the management and in
the social conditions in the factory.
I'm not saying you should run the
factory. I'm saying you should have
voice, perhaps not the loudest
voice, but a voice. You shouldn't
demand wages that are too high,
but voice in management that
will enable more profits to be made"
Anti-Semitic Jibe
The anti-semitic reference came
in response to question from the
floor as to whether interest should
be abolished. mo-" Coughlin re-
piled, 'but usury should. If I lend
you a hundred bushels Of wheat
and ask you to repay me, besides
the hundred bushels, an additional
three or four, now isn't that fair2
But if I ask you to repay me
ten thousand bushels, that's usury-
Mein Gott," and here Coughlin be-
gan to mimic a Jewish accent: II
want mein ten tausend bushels. e"
This is not the first time Cough
lin has introduced anti-semitic in
nuendoes in his speeches, though
he never before has done it so
crudely. In a radio speech early
this year he attacked Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau as a man
opposed to any legislation in favor
of gentle silver" which, the priest
said, would benefit "the American
people who today are in bondage to
the gold controllers"
Protects Fords
Asked during the question period
why he failed to criticize Henry
Ford, he said: "It's the system we
want to kill, not the man. You can't
do it by eliminating one man. It's
the bankers in Wall Street who are
really to blame"
Coughlin has during recent weeks
held secret conferences with Ford
and it is not unlikely that he is
receiving financial support from the
master slave driver of American
capitalism, who at one time en-
gagged in widespread anti-semitic
propaganda. According to the book
by Johannes Steel, "Hitler as Frank
enstehl," Ford donated thousands of
dollars to- the Nazi war chest be-
fore they came to power.
Coughlin reiterated in an even
more decisive form his opposition to
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance that he had stated in response
to a question by your correspon-
dent at a press conference last
Tuesday. Echoing the objections OF
the millionaire auto magnates, he
said: THE automobile companies
would go under if they were taxed
five per cent for an unemployment
insurance fund. Packard would
have to go out Of business, Hudson
would go bankrupt, poor Charlie
Nash president of the Nash Motor
Car Co.. would be looking for a
JOB himself. Only Ford, General
Motors and Chrysler could survive
and this would mean an increase in
unemployment.
Would Like Fire in Washington
What you want is to get a share
Of the profits while you're working
independent of insurance, in order
to give your wife and children a
living wage in your old age"
This pious priest also stopped last
night to cruel testing about the ter
rible hotel fire that occurred in
Lansing, the State capital, early
yesterday morning, in which near
ly a hundred people, including six
members of the State legislature
lost their lives. And he said some
thing that may have been some
thing more than jest, revealing
the anti-parliamentary tendencies
characteristic of fascism: TOO bad
this fire happened in Lansing; toe
bad it didn't happen in Washing
ton" perhaps an American Reichs-
tag fire2)
Coughlin developed a typica.
Hitherto argument regarding the
role of women: ANY married wo-
man working, who knew Before she
got married she would have to work
should be sent to Pontiac" (the
State Insane Asylum is at Pontiac)
What we want" he went on, rs g
wage to enable the laboring man tc
keep the queen of the home as she
deserves to be kept" This is similar
to the Nazi propaganda that wo-
mems only concern should be with
the kitchen, children and the
church. Ccughlin also attacked
birth control.
While making constant play fol
the support Of the workers, farmers
and small business people, Cough
Inns speech was strewn with con-
temptuous epithets in regard tt
them. "sapheads" and "jackasses
were his favorite terms