Detroit Workers News Special 1932 Ford Massacre (1932)

The only known film record of the mass march and meeting held in Detroit on Feb 4 1932 against hunger and unemployment Also shows the dramatic demonstration by workers at the Ford auto plant in River Rouge Michigan in March of 1932 which ended with a violent attack by Dearborn police and Ford Company guards on the crowd with clubs tear gas and guns which killed four young men These deaths set off a wave of protest across the country