RIOT IN FORD’S FACTORY

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 11 March 1932, Page 4

RIOT IN FORD’S FACTORY

FOUR DEAD AND FIFTY INJURED

UNEMPLOYED UNDER COM MUNIST SUPERVISION.

Probably the most serious labour trouble Mr. Henry Ford has ever encountered occurred on March 8, says the Detroit correspondent of the ‘New York Times.’ Three thousand unem-

■ 1 Communist supervision and instigation marched six miles to the main Ford plant at Dearborn and engaged in a serious riot in which four marchers were killed and at least 50, including about 15 police, were injured, many seriously enough to require hospital treatment. The riot was quelled after the arrival of over 100 Detroit police and other State police, who cleared the area. They revealed the pavements stained with blood and the streets littered with broken glass, wreckage and bullet-riddled automobiles. Nearly every window of the Ford building was broken.

After cpiiot had been restored Mr. Ford’s son Edsel and other high company officials visited the hospital, where the injured marchers were treated, and talked with them. 'The police arrested five of the alleged instigators. One of the most remarkable figures among the arrested persons was a girl who, when examined by the police, still wore a shabby blue dross stained with the blood of her slain sweetheart, who died in her arms during the fighting. She shouted defiantly to questions: “Yes, X was there. I am not sorry I did it for the starving millions. Blame Capitalism, which is the cause of all the suffering.” It is revealed that the girl urged the rioters on when faced by a troop of 50 policemen at the Dearborn 'city limits. “Come on, you dashed cowards,” she screamed, and led the way. Upon the mob’s third surge her sweetheart fell with a bullet wound. A ; motorist picked up the lifeless young man and the girl and proceeded to the hospital, vihe.c she was arrested.