| Communist Hunger March Funeral, 1932, In March
of 1932, about 3,000 workers marched on the Ford River Rouge Plan to protest
working conditions. The march was organized by Communists, but non-Communists
joined the protest against Ford as well. The Dearborn police, who functioned
almost as a branch of Ford's own company police, confronted the marchers
and four strikers were killed in the conflict. The deaths hit the front
pages of national papers and public opinion was almost unanimous that the
police-and Ford-were in the wrong. 15,000 people joined the Hunger March
Funeral in Detroit to bury the dead. Source: Detroit Free Press. |
