Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1937 — Page 10

SIT-DOWNS BRED BY FORD VIEWS,

CLAPPER CLAIMS

~ Supports Labor’s Argument Drastic Steps Required to ! Gain Recognition.

(Editorial, Page 16)

By RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 9.—Apparently Henry Ford is in favor of sitdown strikes. At least he is doing all that he can to encourage them when he announces from his retreat in Georgia that he never will recognize any union. That's one way, an oblique one, but effective, to incite labor to sit down. The practical defense which labor makes of the sit-down is that employees have to put a gun to the head of the boss before he will give them collective bargaining. Labor says it has to wring collective bargaining out of employers and that the sit-down is the best wringer they have discovered. Hence they mean to use it until employers bow to the inevitable. Thus Henry Ford, by threatening to close his business rather than deal with any union, is worth the speeches of a hundred labor agitators in inflaming sit-downers. He simply undertakes to confirm everything they have said. That is the practical consequence of Mr. Ford's ultimatum. Mr. Ford apparently says to him-

are made to wrest power from their hands. A vast business, to which are contributed the efforts of many, is no more to be considered the exclusive possession of one man than politically people are to be cemsidered the slaves of an autocratic ruler. The sit-down is a forcible and extra-legal assertion of that equity. And if we are to escape an ugly stretch of industrial lawlessness of this sort, thef/moral equity of employees and others in these huge new industrial institutions will have to be recognized. All of which seems a lot of argument to make over a simple question of whether an employer shall not agree to let his workmen organize and settle their wages and hours through their own agents.

Traditional Graves of Benefactors Will Be Replaced This Year.

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Times Special GREENCASTLE, - April 9.—DePauw students, faculty and alumni will depart from their traditional pilgrimage to the graves of found-

ers and benefactors this year when the university observes its annual Founders’ and Benefactors’ Day April 27. Instead, the cetemony will be held entirely on the campus. In the past, the student body and faculty

town for services at the grave of the late Edward E. Rector, the school’s greatest benefactor. This year Dr. W. W. Sweet, former professor of history and author of a recently published history of DePauw, will deliver a memorial Su/rem at chapel service in Meharry all. Afterward a service will be held at the campus#rave of Bishop§Rob-

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place a wreath on the grave, symbolizing the honoring of all DePauw’s benefactors and founders. Although there will be no official cemetery service Rector scholars and other organizations are planning to decorate graves there. Assisting in arrangements is Miss Mary Ellen Voyles, sénior, of 4150 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis.

Robert Fisher, Anderson, and Herbert Parman, Lynbrook, N. Y., both DePauw seniors, have been granted two of 30 available national scholarships to the National Institute of Public Affairs in Washington.

TECH PUPILS WIN AWARDS FOR SALES

Awards have been presented to §9 Technical High School pupils for their activities in the recent subscription campaign for the Arsenal Cannon. .

Mary Jane Johnston, senior, headed the list of sales agents with a record of 76 subscriptions. Lester La Pole led underclassmen. A special award was given Madge Rutherford, senior, who has won four gold pins with 304 subscriptions in six semesters.

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self: “This is my business. It is owned entirely by me, my wife and my son. I can do what I please | with it. If I don’t like having la- | bor unions around, I can shut up | the place. It is comfortable here | in Georgia. I have plenty to live | on. Junk the business.” Ford Business Analyzed

Well, what is the Ford business? | It is his in the strict legal sense. He controls the corporation. More than that, he has made a tremendous contribution to the business. Perhaps no one else could have made it. Mr. Ford had the genious to sense the possibilities in a simple, reliable, low-priced car at a time: when the automobile was a rich man’s toy. He pioneered successfully and the Ford car has been a great benefactor to modern life. Mr. Ford’s personal contribution to ‘the business has been indispensable and unique. He has been well rewarded for it as he should have been. : But the Ford business is great deal more than Henry Ford. Some 150,000 employees helped make the product. | Agents, distributors, service organizations in practically every community in the land sell the cars ang service them. Dealers have bought expensive business corners, erected buildings, worked up their own businesses over long periods of years. Mr. Ford depends upon them| to find his customers. They depend upon Mr. Ford to supply them with cars and parts.

Co-Operative Enterprise

Thus the business actually proves | to be a vast] co-operative enterprise in which thousands of persons have worked to establish property rights of their own. Your Ford dealer is a business man in your community. He has a property right in the business of selling Ford cars. Yet Mr. Ford proposes to close down these businesses because he doesn’t like labor unions in his works. Mr. Ford is thus a great feudal baron, absolutely controlling a vast modern economic barony. He has been a benevolent baron. His high wage policy has been of such social value that it has obscured the real medieval, feudal nature of the enterprise in which his personal word is law. : People are inclined to tolerate | such private control as long as it is | exercised benevolently. It is when! the barons—medieval or modern— | become overbearing that attempts

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