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...Brazilian newspaper Folha da Noite launched last week a lurid attack against Henry Ford and his rubber plantation in the State of Para. Charged the Folha da Noite: "Mr. Ford does not give good wages. In Mr. Ford's stores a milreis [$.12] is worth only 400 reis...
...Henry Ford steamed home from their vacation in England (TIME, April 16, et seq.) aboard the Majestic, upon which they were again listed under the alias of "Mr. & Mrs. John Robinson." Meanwhile at Para, Brazil, the newspaper Folha de Norte published alleged revelations of the text of a rubber plantation agreement signed by the Ford interests and the State of Para. The agreement, denounced as a "scandalous document," was declared to grant Mr. Ford "unlimited permission to engage in commerce, industry, banking, navigation, and the hiring of contract labor . . . unrestricted by government control" throughout a vast tract of land...