Evening star., 1933-01-30
FORD BODY PLANT !
DISORDERS GROW
Ten Demonstrators Arrested
as Briggs Company Plans
to Resume Work.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, January 30.-Ten demon
strators among the striking Briggs
Manufacturing Co. employees at the
Highland Park plant were arrested
this morning Their names were with
held, and police indicated they would
be released later Meanwhile company
officials said between 800 and 400"
former employees had returned to their
benches
About 200" also were reported to
have returned to work at the Briggs
. company's East Side plant. All those
returning this morning are former en-
ployes CT the Briggs company, and in
Their decision to return company Off
Gals professed to see gradual break
ing up of the walk out, which involved
5000 workers.
Pickets Active.
Outside the plants. however, pickets
still were active. They carried signs
reading no violence. please" These.
the leaders said, were directed to both
police and the strikers
The deadline which the Briggs COM
pany set for the return of 5000 striking
employees passed at noon today-with
no indication that the men, who walked
out last week, would return Immediate
ly. or that their positions would be filled
today from the ranks of the unem-
ployed
Employment gates of the companv's
plants were thrown open to all applf-
cants. No lines formed however.
CROWDS about both plants were larger
this morning than at any time last
week and included many women. At
the Highland Park plant it grew to
Such numbers shortly after am that
Manchester avenue on the south side
OF the Highland Park plant was
Jammed. Mounted police forced the
crowd away from the plant gates.
Three Women Arrested.
Those arrested were seven men and
three women. Highland Park police
said few of them were Briggs workers
and explained they were arrested be-
cause they refused to stop addressing
the crowd
AS the crowd at the Highland Park
increased, firemen were called to aid
IN handling it. Fire trucks changed
Through the crowds and hose lines were
run to house and building taps.
Inside the plant, large stores of tear
gas had been placed. 1t was discovered,
however that the wind, from the south,
woul blow the gas. if used, right back
INTO the plant entrances.
Strikers Beat Man.
One man was beaten by group de-
scrlbed by police as strikers shortly
after IL am. He was Arthur Noblet of
Ferndale. State police who rescued him
said he was beaten when he tried to
enter the employment gate at the High
Iand Park plant of the Briggs Co.
Police forced the proun hack into
line at the company gates and took
Noblet to the Highland Park General
Hospital, where his injuries were said
to be severe, but not serious
The Strike Committee reported this
morning that telegram had been sent
to Gov. William A. Comstock in Lam
sing. informing him the strikers would
resent" the sending of State Militia
to the Briggs plants.
Gov. Comstock on Friday reported he
had received a request for troops. but
declared he believed the local authori-
ties aided by State police would be
able to handle any disorder. The Gov
ernor refused to state who made the
request for militia.
Ford May Make Bodies.
The belief that the Ford COMPANY
Is laying plans to turn out its own
bodies, if necessary, was strengthened
by brief statement from Henry Ford
Saturday night that, "One way or an
other our plants will be going again at
full tilt in very short time
The Ford company owns the dies
used in the Briggs company's Highland
Park plant and on short notice could
swing into production of its own bod
les. Henry Ford visited the Briggs
plant Friday morning, but what he dis
cuSsed with Briggs officials was not re-
vealed
If operations in Ford plants are re-
sumed by tomorrow or Wednesday, the
actual delay will have been slight The
suspension was announced last Thurs
day after most of the men had COM
pleted their three days week.