[?]RL LEADS RIOT AT FORD WORKS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 March 1932, Page 5

[?]RL LEADS RIOT AT FORD WORKS

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o'me on, cowards" i^EETHEART DiES IN HER ARMS DURING FIGHTING II defiant under arrest Screaming; "Come on, you cowJs," a girl is said to have Ied e demonstrators at the Ford arks at Dearborn, Detroit on onday, when an effort, which ■veloped into, a fatal riot, was ade by the mob to reach the [tes of the works. A body of armed police dending the gates fired on the [vancing mob and the girl's reetheart fell on her breast ortally wounded. With his body her arms she was taken hy a jtorist to a hospital, where she lS later arrested.

-By Telegraph— O .-pynght).

Rec. Mar. 9, 8.0 p.m. DETROIT, Tuesday. iere was a eounting to-day of the of the "Red" labour disturbs, possibly the ifiost acute since amous Haymarket riots. The Na1 Guard of Michigan has been lised. Twenty-nine alleged mob :rs, ineluding one girl, have been ;ted, while William Foster and other well-known Communist ;rs are being hunted. ;e Ford organisation has disied all responsibility for the )le, saying that the Ford Comhas during recent months emid more men continuously, and gher wages, than any other in■ial plant or aggregation of s of the same size in the Detroit and has plaeed more fofmer oyees baek on the pay roll than other firm. ; Detroit wants an explanation of a demonstration," adds the pany's statement, "Detroit should to the leaders, who recruited rs, and the souree from which men were drawn." e City Prosecutor said: "No y vill he shown to any person :d to have participated in the We understand that those who red it are planning another detration in the industrial areas. I ordered the poliee to place all nstrators behind bars." e Dearborn chief of police, deng the firing by his men yestersaid they did so for their own etion, after evervthins: else had

e of the most remarkable figures g those arrested was a girl who, examined hy the police, still a shabby blue dress stained the blood of her sweetheart, who in her arms during the fighting. 5 shouted defiantly in reply to ions : "Yes, I was there, I am orry that I was, it was for the ing millions. Blame capitalism, has caused all of our suffering*." was revealed that this girl urgle rioters on when they were hy a>troop of 50 policemen at )earborn City limits. "Come on, xnrards," she screamed, leading ■ay. During the mob's first surge ;weetheart fell with a bullet d. motorist picked up the lifeless l man and the girl and proceed1 a hospital, wherfe she was ari.