The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-06

large number of the States at this time, ii
is stimulating and inspiring to honest, pa,
triotic Americans to learn of the action OF
workers in Dallas. e. az u 49, .
And what different attitude can self
respecting, intelligent, honorable working
man take?
The working man with sufficient brains
and manhood to appraise his true position
will have the manhood and courage to step
in the tracks of Dallas Ford employees
Workers who do not regard themselves as
wage slaves, as oppressed hirelngs, as VIC
Tins of a devilish system; but who know
that they have been living in the freeest
country in the world, the country of great
est opportunities for all classes of people
workers who know that large majority
of American industriaIists and employers
are reasonable, fair-minded, public-spirit-
ed citizens, deeply interested in the gen
eral welfare as well as their personal ad-
vancement, we assert that such workers
may always be expected to react to such
conditions as those of the present in the
way of those Ford workers in Dallas.
The Ford workers in Dallas have good,
paying jobs; they know they have good
jobs and receive good treatment from their
employer, and they appreciate the good
fortune which is theirs, and have the de-
cency and manhood to tell the facts to the
country at large. r.. ...
1--WE are free men in a free State, say
these workers; we do not propose to be
coerced or to become the dumb, driven
cattle of any destructive, revolutionary
movement, for the financial and political
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of any self-seeking die
tator. We are satisfied with our jobs, the
terms of s6ur employment, the treatment
we receive and we don't need any loaf
ing, lousy, moronic radical to come around
and tell us what to do. That and much
more is implied in the action of the Dallas
workers. ..... ..
Now, who believes that body of self
respecting, intelligent, independent work
ing men such as these cannot take care OF
themselves, fight their own battles, live
their own lives and enjoy their natural and
inalienable rights to liberty and the pursuit
of happiness? ......
Who believes that men of this character
cannot walk into the offices of their en-
ployers, Individually or represented by a
committee of their fellow workers) get
respectful hearing from the management,
and settle any problem which may arise?
Who believes that these men do not enjoy
the respect, confidence and friendship of
the Ford management in Dallas?
Who believes these men do not have
feelings of pride in their employment and
in this vast business akin to the sentiments
which actuate Mr. Ford and his son, the
owners?
And who believes that more than mere
fraction of American industrialists and
business men are not as richly entitled to
the respect and confidence and good will
of their employees as is the Ford Motor
Company? .,..r ...,
The, Times-News salutes the Ford men
in Dallas; and this newspaper stands ready
to salute any group of automotlve workers,
steel workers, textile workers, or any other
class of workers, manifesting the sanity,
common sense, Americanism and moral
courage displayed by these men.
The Times-News believes there are mil
lions of American workers who are just as
good and true as the Dallas Ford men; and
that when they are fully aroused to thor
ough understanding of the. conditions fac
ing this country today, they will rally
shoulder to shoulder with other patriotic
citizens, forming vast company which
shall rescue the nation from its predica-
ment and smash radical movements and
their participants in the greatest rout of
destructive forces ever witnessed in this or
any other country. .,.