Evening star., 1932-03-08
FOUR DEAD IN RIOT
AT FORD FACTORY
Injured, 81 Arrested in
Dearborn Disturbance.
Communists Sought.
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Bennet's condition was said not to be
serious
Augmented forces of the law today
kept unrelaXing watch on the always
closely guarded Ford plant. State po-
lice, Detroit officers and Dearborn po-
licemen were assembled at strategic
points. They blocked every approach
to the plant against the possibility of
second march National guardsmen
zoo of whom we're held at their Detroit
armory for ~ hours last night, were
subject to call should they be needed.
Authorities professed to have no def
mite reason to believe another march
would be made, beyond threats they
said they heard from the demonstra
tors as they fed leaving one dead and
three dying behind. Three of the dead
were identified as Joe York, Joe De-
buske and Coleman j. LenZ.
Those of the marcherS. who talked to
newspaper men after the battle, declared
they themselves were not communists
They said the demonstrators hoped to
send in two representatives to ask
Henry Ford to employ larger number
of men
Accuse Each Other.
The opposing forces accused each
other of inciting the tragic conclusion
to the march
Police said six shots from the demoE-
strators, fired from behind a parked
car. started the fight. The marchers,
who passed through a tear gas bomb
attack and withstood freezing water
from fire hose before reaching the
plant. said police started the firing
They claimed to have fought only with
bricks and stones.
The marchers, who assembled in De-
troit and marched two miles to the
plant drove before them with shower
of stones the 30-man detail Of Dearborn
police which attempted to halt them
with tear gas at the city limits.
AS they approached the Miller ave-
nue. gate of the Ford plant streams of
water which froze where it struck were
turned on the crowd from an overhead
bridge.
Every observer had a different story
of what happened then, but they were
agreed that Bennett drove through the
crowd in an automobile. Some wit
nesses said at least one shot was direct
ed at him. A marcher said he saw
Bennett hurl gas bomb from the car.
There was also agreement that Ben
netts car was stoned and that some OF
JIle InlSSIpS SITuCk Ills IlCdo. AoOAl4C ooAN
the car was overturned and that Ben
nett then was the center Of general
melee
Detective Hugh Quinn told reporters
he was standing within 5 feet OF Ben
nett when a man approached and nred
at the private police chief. Quinn SAID
that before he could draw his own gun,
Bennett returned the fire and his as
sailant fell dead Quinn was authority
for the statement that Charles E. Sor-
enson, head of the Rouge Ford plant,
was with Bennett in the car ana tnaV
Ford police rescued SorenSon AFTER Vhe
car was overturned.
Company officials. however SAID Sor-
enson was within the plant at the time
Ford employe, who viewed the
fighting from the top OF factory
building, said he saw Bennett algnt
from the car, staggering from heao m
juries, and, waving to police 10 1ol-
low him, totter toward the crowd. fo-
lice overlook him. this witness SAID put
him in a car and whisked him away.
An eyewitness said police were nneo
up beneath the viaduct and that as
the marchers approached, some one
called out, If you come on, you
going to get it." They came on and
pistols and shotguns sprayed LEAD
through the crowd. A Ford employe
said between 200 and 800 shots were
fired at the marchers before they ned.