THREAT TO UPSET COURTS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22050, 25 March 1937, Page 15

THREAT TO UPSET COURTS

DETROIT WORKERS WARN

AUTHORITIES

RIGHTS OP LABOUR MUST BE

RESPECTED

(TOTTED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTEIOHT.)

(Received March 24, 11.45 p.m.)

DETROIT, March 24.

Nearly 100,000 motor workers and sympathisers held an orderly meeting in the Detroit square. The union leader, Mr Homer Martin, was cheered when he warned Mr Henry Ford that , the Committee of Industrial Organisation intended to unionise the plants and that Mr Ford could not prevent 1 Another speaker, Mr Frank Martel, president of the labour local organisation, said that unless the rights of labour were respected by the city hall and police headquarters, the courts would be turned "wrong side up." , The chief of the Committee of Industrial Organisation, Mr J. L. Lewis, and Mr Walter P. Chrysler agreed to confer with the Governor of Michigan (Mr Frank Murphy), on the dispute in the motor industry. The Mayor of Detroit (Mr Frank Couzens) lessened the fears of a general strike when he ordered the police not to interfere with "sitdown" strikers in small plants.