Evening star., 1933-10-30
Hundreds Of Windows in
Seven Plants Smashed.
Autos Overturned.
$500 MEN DISAPPEAR
BEFORE OFFICERS ARRIVE
Official Accuses Hoodlums and De-
nies Tool Strikers Are In
volved.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
DETROIT, October 30. - Massed
1orces OF police this afternoon overlook
rioters numbered by officials at $500
ana arrested six men after the mob had
raloed seven shops where a tool and
diemakers strike is in progress, smash
Ing windows, overturning automobiles
and burning blueprints and drawings
The arrests came after the police
armed with tear gas bombs and night
sticks, had pursued the rioters through
the manufacturing section as they
swept from one factory to another in
several hundred automobiles.
Three of the men arrested were slight
ly injured
Retreat Across Border.
Sweeping down on a division Of the
Murray Corporation Of America. bor-
dering on suburban Hamtramck, the
raiders began hurting stones and bricks
through windows. A force of 100 pa
trolmen rushed to the scene, and after
the six men had been seized. the rioters
retreated across the city limits into
Hamtramck, jeering the officials. who
were unable to arrest them in the
suburb
Police declared they did not believe
the men were strikers, but "hoodlums
posing as strikers"
The men, their numbers dwindling as
the day Of raiding wore on, came to
the Murray plant from the Midland
Steel Products Co. factory, where they
had smashed windows and overturned
cars.
John P. McCarty. assistant superin-
tendent OF police. said he did not be-
lieve the men, were bona-fide strikers,
but said he thought they were hood
lums posing as strikers"
Jay j. Griffen. chairman of the Joint
Strike Committee, declared the demon
StratorS were in no way connected
with the Mechanics Educational So
ciety, which issued a strike call for
all tool and die makers in Detroit. Flint
and Pontiac more than a month ago.
He said the strikers had been in a
mass meeting all morning. and knew
nothing Of the disturbance.
In rapid succession the demonstra-
tors, speeding through the city at
tackled the plants of the Koestlin Tool
& Die Corporation. Frederick A Col
man & Sons, the Faigle Tool & Die
Co.. the F. Joseph Lamb Co. and the
East Side Gear & Tool Co.
Then, with police rict cars trailing
closely, they moved to headquarters of
the striking tool and diemakers.
Two men were arrested as reserve
officers arrived at the Faigle plant, but
they reported the strikers took the
prisoners from them and drove rapidly
away. Orders went out at once for the
police to use their clubs on the demon
strators if there was another clash.
All available police were ordered to
At the Koestlin plant, the strikers
entered the Offices, burned blue prints
and frightened Office employees who fed
into the streets
Shortly after 1870 am police went
to the Lamb Co. plant. where the dem
onstrators, parking their cars nearby,
dashed to the place and hurled stones
through windows. speeding away be-
fore reserves arrived
Two of the plants raided the Koestlin
and Colman factories, are in the citv'S
West Side, while the other two were
on the East Side Driving rapidly III
their automobiles. however, the dem
onstrators were able to move from one
plant to the other before hastily-sum-
moned police reserves could catch up
with them.