Aaron Sapiro, national authority on co-operative marketing and one of the leaders of the cooperative movement in the United States, will file suit against Henry Ford in the courts of Michigan, according to statement of Mr. Sapiro in an address delivered before the Men’s Club of Temple Beth-El here.
Mr. Sapiro’s decision to bring suit is the result of a series of articles published in the “Dearborn Independent” in which it was charged that the cooperative marketing movement is nothing but “a conspiracy of the International Jewish bankers to control agriculture in the United States.”
“We will show that Henry Ford’s attacks on the part that I have taken in promoting cooperative marketing among the farmers of this country mean but one thing”, Mr. Sapiro stated, “that Ford and his hirelings are bent upon eliminating the Jew from agriculture. But little do these men realize that the efforts exerted by those who would apply to agriculture the sound methods which obtain in modern business will result in placing agriculture on a basis of prosperity and productivity, without which it is doomed. And these malicious individuals do not know, or do not wish to know, that it was men like the late David Lubin, a California Jew, who laid the foundation for a new and significant era in American farming.”
Suit will be filed shortly by one of the eminent lawyers of Detroit.
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