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...detachment had a bagpiper who mournfully skirled the subversive "Internationale." Miners from the boarded-up coal pits of Wales, shipwrights from the silent Tyneside, locked-out weavers from the Midlands arrived with some show of spunk and morale, but the weak & weary contingent from Henry Ford's plant at Dagenham (now working at a fraction of capacity) were a disgrace to their comrades. Exhorted to parade around Hyde Park, they squatted down as soon as they reached the greensward, exerted themselves no further than to join in chanting the British Hunger March. Chorus...
Ford to Ford. Ford of Canada and Ford of England made an agreement last week. The Canadian company will distribute the baby 8-h. p. Ford made at Dagenham, England. 'In return the British company will distribute throughout its territory the new eight-cylinder Ford made at Walkerville...
...seeking to break into tax-ridden Britain's popular low-powered automobile field, American Ford planned to give Britain her share of the profits. Though last week's display models were made in the U. S., cars for sale will be built at the Ford plant at Dagenham, along with milk floats, fire engines, tractors, tappers, scrapers, diggers, lorries. London auto critics had only one objection to the new Ford: the petrol tank atop the engine. Neither Sir Herbert Austin nor Sir William Richard Morris had anything to say. For Henry Ford, King George had no knighthood...
...straight question," broke in another Englishman. "What means will you use to find out if a man is drinking in his private time? Will your workmen at Dagenham [new Ford British works] be followed into their homes and penalized for exercising their private rights? Will you give a straight answer to that...
Vexed and wroth were English tycoons last week when Sir Percival gave to the Spectator, famed London weekly review, a signed article by Mr. Ford in which the latter served notice that all Ford workmen will be paid at least ?5 a week at his new English factory in Dagenham, while factories next door pay less than ?3, and English textile mills pay as little as ?2 75 (TIME...