Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre

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 (OCLC-WorldCat). 

Detroit and New York Film and Photo League, Workers International Relief

Year

1932

Runtime

7 minutes

Format

35mm

Collaborators
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Production: Detroit and New York Film and Photo League, Workers International Relief

Direction: Leo Hurwitz with collective

Photography:  Jack Auringer, Robert Del Duca, Joseph P. Hudyma, Leo Seltzer, John Shard 

Editors: Lester Balog, Joseph F. Hudyma.