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Show FLIVVER KINO I TO SHAKE ALL I U. S. INDUSTRY I Closing Order Gigantic Pro-test Pro-test Against Steel Trust; Coal Profiteers CONSPIRACY CHARGED Ford Declares He Will Never Pay Graft to Keep Operating By ALLAN L. BENSON. -.pis-lal Correspondent of The Interna ' tlonal News Service. (Copyright, 1922. by International News Service.) DETROIT, Mich.. Aug. 26. Henry ! Fcrd today made one of tho great strategic movemvnts that have com 1 to be associated with his career as la manufacturer. Wishing to deliver s body , blow both at the steel trust and trie coal profiteers he announced thai . a September 16 all of his plants ' would close down. This will throw lout of work SO. 000 men in Detroit and more than 2.000.000 others In Indus-I Indus-I trie-, that furnish him with supplies. nmm More than M0 telegrams were sent out todaj by P"ord notifying the con- . , rn- 1 en furnishing hlui . w itii raw an. partly manufactured J eea their shipments. I ; The steel trust, as It happened, noti- jlM tied him today that the price of steel fsU on $1.40 bars would he at once In- creased to $1.80 and that tho price, w .ul.l n t,. 2 1' a date near at hand In t he f ui ure. H Wild. NOT PAY GRAFT. ' I told , them that I wanted no fH si. said Ford. "I am going to .shut down" said Mr Ford to me. because 1 win not pay gran to gee bjjjjjjjb coal, nor will I pay an excessive price steel coal if 1 were H willing pay graft. CoaT Is offered -'"''B to me every day at an excessive price. I had a chance to buy 60.000 toiu tOda t 6 a ton. Four dollars and Hiii'1 a half ' ton is 1 good price for coal H and thnt 1- I 1 will pay kim I not h 1 part' t. jirofiti-r-r- Jjt I 1 am goings) shut I it eel prices .i nrl ""l profitecrlne arc over. Tolerate sucn cond lions and they win continue in- definitely. The-- is n good reason Why aueh cOndltlOrta iiouid exist at all. It is all a conspiracy to fleece the public, I believe both strikes the railway and the ,-oal strikes are eoneplraclea between Wall street and the labor unions I do not mean that w bH union working rn -n as a class are con- V,'H spiring, but I dd mesn that their lead- I ers are. I believe labor union lead- ers ai-e wor!lnc In close co-operation with the sailwajge and mine owners." si B IT1 G1C ' EMENT, As a stratccic movement. Ford's action of today, while entirely char- H acterlstic of h'.m. is perhaps the (flH greatest f his nie it bi just such H a move o he made after the war when desiring t 1 break war prices for raw material' he closed his works ill and announced in indefinite suspen- slon. Ford's move then was so surt-den surt-den that the gri.idlng of brake wheels H could be heard all over the country. Firms that dealt with him were Bert- ously embarrass, -d by the cancella- tlon of his orders. Ha won his point. however Prices dropped nearly, or quite to a pre-war level, and when jiff H thev dropped Ford gave the order to resume Work in his plants. DOUBLES I M MPLOYMENT. Ford's move today will Imm.iliatc- M ly throw out of work more than two million men. n Detroit ,ilono .it will stop the flow of IS.BOO.dOO In weekly wages hit ,ir pnitl In the Ford plants. Throughout the nation It will almost double the number of men that are said to be without cm-ployment cm-ployment "I hateti I11 do thl," said Ford, "hut It had to be done. I would have preferred to keen going. I like to see men employed and happy. Mut there is g price that I will not pay to keep going and that Is graft. I will not pay graft to get coal." Somebody told Ford that Mr. Hoover had challenged his B.tntcmenf that coal could be bought If one were willing to pay the prio. "Hoover Is always more ready to challenge a st.ii-.nent than he Is to Investigate the ruth of it. if Hoover does not know that brokers are offer-Ing offer-Ing eoal at fa nre prices he is one of I he f. v. whi do not know it Hoover , I aaya he wants to prevu. profiteering I In coal. Well. If he wants to prevent ! It. w hy doesn't he do it Instead ui ' talking about It?" j BRINt; THINGS IX) POCUS. After spentllng the day with Mr. ' r9g Ford. I left his office at night with jthe conviction that what he Is really H determined to do, among other things, ffCfl i Is to bring hoth 'he railway and tha Icoal strikes to a focus. Believing that hoth strikes ar-' consplra.-ies against dH the public he apparently Is of the 'In jH I opinion that If he takes the lead in bb1 I bringing buelnOSS to a standstill that I the corsplrators will bo compelled to Bottle the strikes. "1 am closing down." he added. "when our business Is breaking all ro nrds e tir- making 5.100 cars '"l B dav and orders nre coming In at the rate of 5.300 a day. But what Wi th use of doing business If one can- not do it under decent conditions. 1 U (, Continued 011 Pago Two.) BBBBBI BBBBBfl iCaM HENRY FORD TO CLOSE PLANTS Great Industrial Tremor Felt With News From Detroit (Continued from Pug Onel nevor pay graft to get coal If T never start." DETROIT, Aug 26. (By tho Associated As-sociated PreBS ) Industry, the country coun-try over, must "throw up Its hands In surrender" within a fevs weeks If tho i rail and coal strikes continue" Henry I Ford declared today In announcing' the decision of the Ford Motor cam-1 pany to close Its plants here and In ! many other cities bept, 16, becauso of the fuel situation. Mr. Ford hold financial Interests responsible for the Industrial tie-up, declaring the "money barons" were manipulating the labor unions and that public officials, state and national, na-tional, were Impotent In the crisis The strikes would end, he continue,. contin-ue,. When the majority of the people peo-ple are cold and hungry enough to resort re-sort to drastic action." "Continuance of these disturbances to th' e onomlc life of the nation is due simply to the greed and avarloe of Wall street" Mr Ford asserted adding that tins, interests "dominated "dominat-ed the railroads, coal mines and pul- i lie utilities of the country." The deadlock In strike negotiations' indicated he declared, the existence I of "a plot to unload the demoralized and run down railroads onio tno go -1 ernmont at their own price and to hu-) mlllato tho people through excessive i oal prleei " HI MBBR AFFECTED. One hundred and live thousand employes em-ployes of the Ford Motor company throughout the country will be without with-out Jobs after Sept. 16 and, In addition, addi-tion, nearly 10". 000 workers employed employ-ed In industries furnishing mat- rials for Ford plants will be affected How long the machinery in the Ford plants Is to be stilled will de-pond de-pond entirely upon the coal supply of the fture. the Detroit manufacturer manufac-turer said. Tho statement issued by Mr. Ford announcing the proposod shutdown was the story of his iQSing fight during the last few months lo insure a fuel supply sufficient to keep his workers at their machines. Mr. Ford declared he "had not the remotest idea" when the plant could be reopened It was announced that tho normal daily consumption of coal In the Ford Industries was 3800 tons and although declining to state the amount on hsnd at this time, officials offi-cials said It would be Impossible to do more "than keep the furnaces ani ovens warm." Effect of the Ford shutdown will be felt on industry in every part of tho country, according to officials of the company. The number of workers work-ers employed by firms supplying thor Ford company with various parts and raw materlols. Including iron and steel, was variously estimated at from "several hundred thousand to three million." SHOCK TO DETROIT Announcement of the closing came as a distinct shock to the people of Detroit Announcement was made recently re-cently that Mr Ford had installed oil burning furnaces at one of his plants as an nxperlmcnt and ihe bono was held by many workmen that tho Ford company could weather the coal shortage. It developed today, however, how-ever, that only the furnaces In tho machine shops had been converted Into oil burners. The Ford plants. In the nggregato. constitute Michigan's greatest Industry, Indus-try, from the standpoint of employment employ-ment and as such are among tho largest In the country Business mon and manufacturers hero were unanimous unani-mous that the closing of tnese plants might have far reaching effects on the national economic situation. |