Evening star., 1932-03-08
Communist Leaders and
Labor Agitators Sought.
Face Homicide Charge.
MANY SHOTS ARE FIRED
AS WATER AND GAS FAIL
Scores Injured in Storming Dear
born Factory-Militia in Readi-
ness for Renewed Attacks.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, March 8.-Thirty-one
persons were under arrest today while
State, city and Federal officers sought
the men believed by them to have in
stigated yesterdays rioting in which
four were killed at the gates of the
Ford Motor Co.'S River Rouge Factory.
Several score OF persons were injured.
Five known Communist leaders and
labor agitators were sought. They in
cluded William 2. Foster, national head
of the Communist Party of the United
States; William Reynolds, former Com
muniSt candidate for mayor Of the sub
urb of Lincoln Park; Jhon Schimes, for
mer Communist candidate for mayor
of Detroit, and Albert Goetz and John
Pace, said by police to be agitators.
Foster delivered an address at a
meeting Sunday at which plans for the
march to the Ford factory are be-
lieved to have been made. SchimeS
recently was arrested by the Detroit
police for leading a demonstration at
the City Hall Reynolds served a Jail
term last Fall for participating in a
riot in Lincoln Park. Goetz and Pace
have been active in starting riots, the
police said.
The authorities today contemplated
the issuance of warrants charging
homicide, assault with intent TO kill
and felonious assault in connection
with the disorder The bringing of
charges of criminal syndicalism under
the Michigan law also was contem-
plated.
Ford Company Statement.
An official of the Ford compan- to-
day issued the following statement con-
corning the riot:
1T is not up to the Ford organiza
ton to explain the disorder, it's up to
Detroit.
IF Detroit wants an explanation of
such demonstrations as that just ended,
Detroit should look to the leaders who
recruited the rioters and the source
from which their men were drawn.
There were no Ford men in the mob,
and we have learned that the number
of former Ford men was negligible, if
there were any"
Carl Brooks, chief of the Dearborn
police, today criticized the Detroit po-
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ceed without interference to the Dear
born city limits. Brooks was i'll at
home when the riot occurred
"One hundred and fifty Detroit po-
licemen stood by without making a
move to stop the marchers from com
ing into Dearborn" he said. My men
were thoroughly justified in shooting,
because they did so for their own pro-
lection, after everything else had
failed"
Detroit authorities said the parade
was permitted under the police depart
ment's policy Of granting such privi-
leges to any group that requests them.
In the morgue, in Jail and in hospitals
were victims of the bitter battle that
developed late yesterday when unem-
oloyment demonstrators marched on the
plant.
Four Shot to Death.
-Four men, marchers or bystanders,
were shot to death and several score
OF persons including Harry H. Ben
nett, chief Of the Ford service depart
men (private police, and eight other
ofhcers-were injured before the DEM
onstrators, earlier victorious over a
smaller number Of Dearborn police, were
repulsed at the gates of the factory.
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