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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work of his Civil Liberties Committee. As a sample of the Committee's work the shrewd little Wisconsin Progressive also sent the Senate a report on the Memorial Day massacre in which ten men were fatally shot outside the gates of Republic Steel's South Chicago plant (TIME, June 7). After the open hearings in Washington and the showing of the famed Paramount newsreel of the riot, it was obvious whom the La Follette Committee would blame- the Chicago police. Concluded the Committee...
...weeks ago U. A. W. announced another attempt to pass out literature at the Rouge plant but the plan was suddenly abandoned. Newshawks and photographers had risen at dawn to be on hand. When nothing happened Harry Bennett invited them in for breakfast in the Administration Building, where Ford executives lunch each day. Henry Ford had apparently decided he needed the Press on his side.* After the Battle of the Overpass, Mr. Bennett's service men had ripped notebooks from reporters' hands, confiscated films, chased one photographer for five miles until he took refuge in a police station...
...hearings Lawyer Colombo was irritated by the fact the witness frequently testified that some Ford service men looked like Italian gangsters. "Without saying anything derogatory of the Italian race, what term would you apply to some of the men you saw around Gate No. 4 of the Ford plant that day?" asked a sly Labor Board lawyer. The witness, a photographer named Arnold Freeman, promptly replied: "Dago hoodlums...
Then the Labor Board started to draw from a long procession of onetime Ford employes their story of Fordism v. Unionism. In as well as out of the River Rouge plant, Mr. Bennett's service men were the villains. They could be spotted, said the witness, by their broken noses, cauliflower ears and the fact that they never worked, only watched. One of their jobs was to enforce Ford's rigid rule against talking on the job. Another was to see that the men maintained their pace. Witness after witness told how he had been suddenly taken from...
...film entitled The Bride Wakes Up and heard from the folksy syndicate poet. Edgar A. Guest. Ford Motor Co. scheduled a lunch at Dearborn Inn, a trip through Greenfield Village and a speech by its official spokesman, William J. Cameron. General Motors Corp. offered a tour of its Pontiac plant and a free Pontiac to the editor who would write and publish the best story about Michigan...