Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
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Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Look at some of the figures of the “needle trades” before the war. In
the entire United States, the men’s and women’s clothing manufactured in
1914 had a value of $932,099,000. In New York alone, $542,685,000 was
produced. The rest was produced by the Jewish clothing centers in
Chicago, Cleveland, New Jersey and Philadelphia.
The figures for the period of the war and since will be staggering.
Clothing in the regular trade began to mount in price, until at the end
of the war in 1918, it had attained an increase of 200 per cent and 300
per cent. Until well into 1920 the monopoly held up the price. This was
done in face of the declaration by the manufacturers of _cloth_ that the
whole profiteering persistence was due to the manufacturers of
_clothing_. Russian-Polish Jews, in this country only a few months, drew
$50 to $80 a week. Threats of strike were used to get a five per cent
increase in wages, which was met by a 20 per cent increase in the cost
of clothing. The American public paid.
If, however, these statements were merely an attempt to arouse
indignation that for once the workers got more than they earned, the
attempt would be a failure. It is pretty hard to find anyone to regret
the workers getting hold of a bonanza. The high wages weren’t of much
use, as it proved, but people at least had the satisfaction of handling
them.
These statements are made to show that during the war the Jewish unions
waxed fat, a fact which has a bearing on their Bolshevik attitude today.
Not all the wage was the gain of the man who earned it—there was the
union to pay. Girls in the fur trade in New York earned $55 a week, of
which they paid in $27.50 a week to the unions. Other workers paid in
like proportion. There was great talk of what would be done. In Russia,
of course, they had the government’s gold vaults immediately upon the
success of the revolution, but in the United States the preliminary
funds would have to be supplied by themselves. A great revolutionary
stroke was planned of which the written evidence still remains.
There are two divisions of Jewish wealth and power centering in New
York. The first is German Jewish, represented by the Schiffs, the
Speyers, the Warburgs, the Kahns, the Lewisohns and the Guggenheims.
These play the game with the aid of the financial resources of the
non-Jews. The other division is composed of the Russian and Polish Jews
who monopolize the hat, cap, fur, garment and toy trades. (By the way—it
is the Russian and Polish Jew who controls the American stage and movies
also.) Between them their grip and influence is far from negligible.
They may sometimes have internecine quarrels regarding the division of
the profits and eager publicists may zealously call attention to these
quarrels as evidence of the lack of unity among the Jews, but in the
Kehillah and elsewhere they understand each other pretty well, and on
the question of Jew vs. “goy” they are indivisibly one.
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