The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-09
day, March 8, edition, says:

day, March 8, edition, says:
Newspaper men and photog-
raphers were ordered from the scene
and negatives of all the sameras that
could be seized were confiscated
Only few of the pictures of the
battle were saved"
The Ford and Murphy agents
could not even trust the capitalist
newspapers to lie sufficient to hide
the deliberate slaughter. They could
not permit the photographs to be
shown to the workers. All pictures
published-and the worst were de-
stroyed-Show the cops, heavily
armed, in regular army formation
shooting at the unarmed, unem-
ployed workers.
Whitewashing Ford Officials
The capitalist press is widely pub
fishing a statement issued by the
Ford officials, deliberate attempt to
WhiteWash Ford and his gunner
from the most brutal murder of I'M
employed thus far attempted in the
United States. The lying Ford state
ment at first says: '"Thera we're no
Ford men in the mob" and then
declares 'the number of former Ford
men was negligible" A large per-
centage of the hungry unemployed
who marched to the Ford plant to
demand jobs or relief were either re-
Gently fired by Ford or at some time
within recent years had shaved for
Ford and sweated at the belt so he
could amass the huge fortune which
he has today.
No information is being given out
by the Ford officials about Harry
Bennett, head of the Ford Service
Department, who led the massacre
against the workers. Bennett, they
say, was hit in the head by a rock.
AS part of the frame-up, Bennett is
kept out of sight so that evidence"
can be manufactured about his being
shot.
Ono of those arrested is Mary
Gossman, young worker, who was
shot in the midst of the bullet
rackeo grounds. Three of the men
shot died right near here. "Three
of the workers fell beside me" she
Is reported TO have told capitalist
newspapermen. II looked to see
who they we're. turned the first
one over, and 1t was Joe York. I
dragged him back and put his head
in my lap. He died there while the
guns stiil were cracking"
New Terror Reign.
In the future the unemployed in
Detroit who demand bread for their
hungry families or relief to keep
them from starving to death will be
greeted with riot guns, according to
a statement made by Chairman
Stephen D. Butts of the Detroit City
Commission, who issued a formal
warning to the unemployed thatIt
should starve quietly.
This is the latest decree of the
Murphy administration OF the De-
troit automobile barons, capitalist
administration which received the
blessings of the socialists. Norman
Thomas made a special visit to Mayor
Murphy soon after his election,
blessing" the Murphy regime as
suitable to the social-fascist pro-
gram of the socialist party.
Now the Murphy regime, which is
closely connected with Wall Street,
and is following the hunger program
of the bankers who support the Muir
ply regime through loans Is declar-
ing that all meetings OF the unem-
ployed will be barred.
Instead of seeking to punish the
wealthy perpetrators of the murder
of the unemployed, Prosecutor Harry
S. Toy of Detroit issued statement
declaring: mo mercy will be shown
any person proven to have partici-
pated in the riot. We understand
those who inspired it are planning
another demonstration in the indus
trial era. have ordered police to
place all demonstrators behind the
bars"
This is the reign of free speech and
free assemblage of the unemployed
promised b yMayor Murphy! This
is Mayor Murphy's open support to
the murderers of the unemployed,
and TO the threats Of more drastic
action to try to prevent the jobless
from demanding relief from the
wealthy automobile capitalists.
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