DETROIT RIOT

Southland Times, Issue 21649, 10 March 1932, Page 7

DETROIT RIOT

SERIOUS AFFAIR TWENTY-NINE UNDER ARREST GIRL’S PROMINENT PART (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 7 p.m.) Detroit, March 8. There was a counting of the cost to-day in the Red Labour disturbances, possibly the most acute since the famous Haymarket riots. The National Guard in Michigan has been mobilized. Twenty-nine alleged leaders, including one girl, have been arrested. Foster and four other well-known Communist leaders are being hunted. The Ford organization disclaimed all responsibility. “The Ford Company employs more men continuously at higher wages than any other industrial or aggregation of plants of the same size in the Detroit area. During recent months it replaced more former employees’ names on the payroll than any other firm. If Detroit wants an explanation of such demonstrations, Detroit should look to the leaders who recruited the rioters and the sources from which their men were drawn,” the City Prosecutor said. “No mercy will be shown any person proven to have participated in the riot. We understand those who inspired it are planning another demonstration in the industrial area. I have ordered the police to place all demonstrators behind the bars.” The Dearborn Chief of Police defended the firing by his men yesterday. “They did so for their own protection after everything else failed,” he said. One of the most remarkable figures among the arrested was a girl who, when examined by the police, still wore a shabby blue dress stained with the blood of her slain sweetheart, who died in her arms during the figl(Jing. She shouted defiantly to questions: "Yes! I was there. I am not sorry I did it for starving millions. Blame capitalism, which is the cause of all suffering.” It was revealed that she urged the rioters on when faced by a troop of 59 policemen* on the Dearborn City limits. “Come on, you dashed cowards’” she screamed, leading the way upon the mob’s third surge. Her sweetheart fell from a bullet wound. A motorist picked up the lifeless young man and the girl and proceeded to the hospital, where she was arrested. It was announced to-night that various charges of homicide, assault, etc., will be pressed against the rioters.