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Aaron Sapiro Versus Henry Ford
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basis for the statements which were
originally founded on mere rumor.
They are evidently protracted in the
hope that Sapiro will be nut-financed
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before he is permitted to appear in
Chicago Jewish Attorney, "Father" of Co-operative Marketing Movement, court. The trial of this case, after
Prepares for Trial of Liberal Suit Aganist Owner of Dearborn
postponement from March of this
Independent.
year, was set for Sept. Ii, 1526, be-
fore Judge Tuttle. Attorneys for
By LOUIS POPKIN
Ford made application in August for
postponement and Judge Tuttle over-
The U. S. District Court of Detroit artic les on "Jewish Exploitation of years in Mr. Ford's effort to find a
will on March 7 hear attorneys for Earn tors' Organization," mentioning ruled it. The Ford attorney came in-
ro
by
name--calling
him
a
be-
Henry Ford and the Dearborn Pub- Sapi
formally to ask for postponement and
lishing Company endeavor to prove tray er of the American farmer. Sa- Judge Tuttle declared that the action
had been requested by the late
that Aaron Sapiro, young Chicago at- piro
was unethical. An affidavit of pre-
ris Weinstock to organize some of
torney, hailed world-wide as the lead- liar
judice was filed against Tuttle by
ending farmers' co-operative mar-
ing exponent of the co-operative mar- the I
Ilenry Ford, and the case was trans-
ig associations in California, and
keting movement, was deliberately or- ketil
ferred to Judge Benson W. Hough,
that time has established on a
OUR STYLES ARE
ganizing and dominating the farmers sine e
who ordered it postponed to March,
I and constitutional basis, co-op-
of America and Canada as part of a lega
1927, when the congressional activities
CORRECT.
ive organizations of fruit growers,
great Jewish conspiracy to control the erat
of Senator Reed, Ford's chief of
at growers, tobacco growers, pool-
food sources of the nation. And while whe
counsel, would permit him to argue
-
try raisers, and other types of
his client jubilates that at last his case
the case. Praying that at last he may
OUR PRICES ALWAYS VERY
cult urists which successfully market have the opportunity next spring to
has come to trial, William Henry Gal-
dollars
co-() peratively millions of
MODERATE.
ask for justice, Aaron Sapiro is await-
lagher, attorney for Aaron Sapiro,
war th of products annually. During
ing the early spring in the expecta-
will ask the court to exact from the
the last two years he formulated the
tion that the game of a very rich
Detroit automobile manufacturer dam-
ns
and
sustained
the
legality
of
the
pla
man may be at last played out.
ages of $1,000,000 for libelous state-
larg est co-operative organization in
He is, so friends declare, in this
ments made against Mr. Sapiro. All
the world—the successful Canadian case fighting against all the forces
Buy Now at a Big Saving.
s-
this
will
happen
on
March
7,
if
;
Wh eat Pool, including in its member-
of irresponsible intolerance which
and the "if" is usually the important
p
more
than
100,000
farmers
of
shi
tend to destroy American ideals of
part of every statement. In this in-
We stern Canada. A surprisingly large
religious and human liberties through
13t= stance it is especially significant for
per centage of the laws affecting agri-
▪ the trial will take place only if Sen- col ture which have been passed by the spreading of unfounded suspicion
creating rumors.
ator Reed and other attorneys for
con gress and by sonic 42 states of the
However, ignored by his people
Henry Ford do not succeed as they Un ion, were drafted by him. His
whose battle he is waging, he takes
: have for more than two years, in ob-
;ti
s
ach ievements have been hailed as an
"Sign "f the Bear."
taining successive postponements in
standing contribution both to agri- on somewhat the romantic air of a
valorous Don Quixote, tilting at
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,,,e4 an effort to break down and exhaust C u
ul ture and economics in American
windmills. If he does succeed in
the plaintiff in what promises to be life
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bringing Henry Ford before the bar
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one of the most widely interesting
At first Mr. Sapiro was inclined to
of justice, (and there is much in his
legal cases of recent years.
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tak e the Dearborn Independent's character and record of performance
When Henry Ford first began to sec ies of articles quite as the rest of
publish his series of libels against the the Jews save Mr. Bernstein had taken to make this a strong probability),
Jews of America and the world, Amer- th e rest of the Ford propaganda- a new champion to be celebrated in
ican Jewry stood aghast, outraged by wi th a smile for their naivete and history and legend will have arisen
the absurdity and malice of the cam- ig norance. But Mr. Sapiro is an at- in Modern Israel.
paign, but by tacit agreement that the to rney in Chicago. Ile is associated
statements were not worthy of the dig- wi th Judge Robert S. Marx, Argonne
nity of a defense, no reply was made, he ro and wearer of the distinguished
save in the case of Herman Bernstein, se rvice cross. Mr. Sapiro soon dis-
the author and journalist editor of the co vered to his amazement that the
Jewish Tribune. Mr. Bernstein's suit De arborn Independent had many read-1
against Mr. Ford, which was the first er 5, that some of them actually be-
NOTARY WITH SEAL
attempt made to bring Mr. Ford to lie ved the fantastic tales they had
account and is now pending in the U. re ad, and that the confidence of many
AUTO INSURANCE
S. court at New York, has not yet of his clients had been undermined by
DRIVERS' LICENSES
come to trial. It has been delayed by th e malicious rumors. The entire
all sorts of dilatory pleas and motions fa rmers' co-operative movement, he
Depositions Taken.
and finally by asking for a roving f s e It, was under attack, as well as him-
Legal Forms Completed.
commission to examine all aorta of
If. Hence, William Ilenry Galla-
people at the most inaccessible points g her, a noted Detroit attorney, was
Typing, Income Tax and Auto
—scattered over the continent of Eur- en gaged to file a declaration in the
License Service.
ope. Mr. Ford has meantime careful- U nited States District Court for the
ly evaded the jurisdiction of the New F. astern District of Michigan, alleg-
DAY AND EVENING
York courts by keeping out of the in g libel and asking on behalf of his
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state or coming and going by stealth, ci ient $1,000,000 for the damage re-
so that process could not be served on
ultant from that libel. That was two
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him in the state. The Dearborn In- all years ago.
Highland Park.
dependent has in fact succeeded in es-
Promptly, too, immediately the Ford l
caping the jurisdiction.
articles were published, Walter l'eteet,
In 1924, after the early attacks secretary of the National Council of
against the Jews had ceased, the Dear- Farmers' Co-operative Marketing As-
born Independent launched a series of sociation, published a reply to Henry
Ford, repudiating by facts at his com-
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mand the Ford allegations of a Jewish
conspiracy, which helped in a large
degree to dissipate the alarm which
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had been raised among farmers' co-
operatives by the Dearborn Independ-
ent. He refuted the claims of a Jew-
ish conspiracy to exploit the American
farmer by demonstrating that of 1,538
Teacher of
directors of 98 associations, there were
but two Jews—both farmers. Ile also
pointed to the fact that in many states
the co-operatives were under the di-
rection of a public director appointed
by the governor of the state, the com-
mission of agriculture, or the presi-
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dent of the State Agricultural College.
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Animals.
A newspaper in the city of Saska-
Near Fourteenth.
toon, in the wheat-growing state of
Saskatchewan, Canada, printed sim-
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ilar articles attacking Aaron Sapiro
Near Woodward Ave.
and his connection with the co-opera-
tive movement. When this paper was
prosecuted for libel, it conducted a
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rigid investigation and then published
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,iso-^lso,tscits s1Z' th e following retraction:
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"These articles were published in
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I '11 I wd faith, the newspapers consider-
in g it their duty at the time of publi-
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C lion to disseminate the contents of
th ese articles to the general public.
T he said articles contained serious
ch arges against the character of
A aron Sapiro, and we having since
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estigated the matter further and
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is- ft mod that there is no foundation for
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ny of the statements which reflect
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u pon Aaron Sapiro, personally hereby
nreservedly withdraw all statements
intained
in
the
said
article
which
in
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a ny way reflected upon the personal
haracter of Aaron Sapiro, and here-
I
} tender apology for same."
The paper in addition agreed, at Mr.
S apiro's suggestion, and as an in-
emnity for damages to his reputa-
ion, to create a fund which would, an-
sally, give a farm boy a chance to
Licensed Chiropractor
g et an education in agriculture. The
Two and three-room Furnished Apart-
Attractive and desirable single rooms.
pisode made somewhat of a local hero
ments with bath, kitchenettes
f Aaron Sapiro, and he was made a
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$10.00 Weekly and up.
Freeman of the city of Saskatoon.
and maid service.
At Grand River.
However, while one libeling news-
aper recognized the error of its ways,
he Dearborn Independent continued
to seek evidence of the great Jewish
onspiracy against the agricultural in-
terests of the United States. In the
two years that have followed the filing
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of this suit, while the public has gone
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1 to 5 P. M.
blithely about its way, forgetting that
Mr. Sapiro had undertaken the battle
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
of his race against bigotry and malice,
he has been awaiting the trial of his
Evenings, 6 to 8 P. M.
suit, has watched days drag into
months, months into years, has seen
his resources drained by a most astute
campaign of the Ford forces to out-
finance their adversary and make it
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impossible for him to bring his case
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to trial. Mr. Ford's procedure has
been to take depositions which he
claimed were necessary to prove his
statements that Aaron Sapiro headed
a ring of Jewish bankers and business
and professional men who had or-
ganized the American farmers to pay
them heavy tribute. Ford had al-
leged deliberate mismanagement of
co-operatives for the benefit of their
organizers, and had declared a fail-
ure the system of organized merchan-
dising of the farm products of the na-
tion, which has in the last few years
swept from the fruit growers of Cali-
fornia to the tobacco farmers of the
:Carolinas. On the other hand, this
plan has been widely acclaimed to be
both constructive and profitable to all
those participating. However, in tak.
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ing their depositions the agents of Mr.
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Ford, it is alleged, have taken testi-
ninny only to prove that co-operative
marketing does not work, rather than
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to prove the source of the libel suit.
that Mr. Sapiro is the agent of a Jew-
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Depositions have been taken in
; Minnesota, North and South Dakota,.''
Idaho, Oregon (where are the hop
growers in whose organization Sapiro
had no part), Washington, Colorado,
Oklahoma, Kansas, Maine, Kentucky,
Connecticut, New York, and New
Jersey, and are to be taken in North
- and South Carolina, Virginia, Texas
and New Mexico. In all of these places
it is necessary for a representative of
Mr. Sapiro to be present while his op-
: I ponents are taking testimony. This
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