T HE MICHIGAN DAILY. FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1937 Edited and managed-by-students of the University of Michigan under the authoity of the Board In Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.. All rights of republication of all other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1936-37 REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY- National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420NADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. CHICAGO - BOSTON - SAN FRANCISCO -Los ANGELES - PORTLAND - SEATTLE Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR..............JOSEPH S. MATTES EDITORIAL DIRECTOR ...........TUURE TENANDER CITY EDITOR ....................IRVING SILVERMAN William Spaller Robert Weeks Irvin Lisagor Helen Douglas NIGHT EDITORS,: Harold Garn, Joseph Gies, Earl R. Gilman, Horace Gilmore, -Saul Kleiman, Edward Mag- dol, Albert Mayo, Robert Mitchell, Robert Perlman and Roy Sizemore. SPORTS DEPARTMENT: Irvin Lisagor, chairman; Betsey Anderson, Art Baldauf, Bud Benjamin, Stewart Fitch, Roy Heath and Ben Moorstein.s WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT: Helen Douglas, chairman; Betty Bonisteel, Ellen Cuthbert, Ruth Frank, Jane B. Holden, Betty Lauer, Mary Alice MacKenzie, Phyllis Helen Miner, Barbara Paterson, Jenny Petersen, Har- riet Pomeroy, Marian Smith, Dorothea Staebler and Virginia Voorhees. Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER ............ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT MANAGER ....................DON WILSHER ADVERTISING MANAGER ...,NORMAN B. STEINBERG WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER........BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES Departmental Managers Ed Macal, Accounts Manager; Leonard P. Siegelman, Na- tional Advertising and Circulation Manager; Philip Buchen, Contracts' Manager; Robert Lodge, Local Advertising Manager; William Newnan, Service Man- ager; Marshall Sampson, Publications and Classified Advertising Manager. NIGtIT EDITOR: ROY SIZEMORE Ford's Gestapo Goes Into Action . (,41VHERE IS THIS Harlan County you hear so much about?" might well be the comment of the newspaper reader who has been patient enough to wade through the inside columns of the newspapers to gather some of the important facts in connection with the ssault made upon officials of the United Automobile Workers by Henry Ford's Service De- partment in Dearborn Wednesday. For sheer brutality, the so-called "loyal em- ployes" of Ford have surpassed even the dreams of the exponents of law and order on the lower side of the Mason and Dixon line. There is absolutely no justification for a detachment of thugs to jump on a man, knock him down, and then hold him on the ground while another detachment kicks him because he sets foot on private property. It might be a little more judicious, we feel, to ask the trespasser off the property. Of course some of the men were asked off the Ford property but they were struck in the back when they turned to comply. The Rev. Raymond Prior Sanford, a member of the Committee for Church and Industry of the Chicago Church Federation, a witness of the attack on Richard T. Franken- steen, director of the UAW Ford campaign, said in part: "First Frankensteen was held by each arm while other men kicked him in the stomach and groin, after which an increasing number of men fell upon him and finally knocked him down on his back at a point near the east exit from the platform. "While he was lying on his back, sluggers took him by either foot and spread his legs apart while others kicked him in the groin. Others ht him on the head and shoulders. One put his heel in Frankensteen's abdomen and put his full weight on it." Such action, provoked by the alleged remak "We thought Lincoln freed the slaves" defies any explanation. As to the identity of the perpetrators of the attack upon the union men there can be no doubt. Eye witnesses declared it remarkable that the ordinary employes of Ford could maneuver so cleverly through the crowd and advance on their quarry so expertly, armed with guns and hand- cuffs. Several men who interfered with reporters near the scene of the attack dater admitted that they were service men. Bennett's statement that the fight started between UAW men and a Ford employe, who is a member of an AFL welders' union becomes meaningless in light of the statement of the AFL local president to the effect that no AFL welders are employed by Ford. Do all Ford employes go to work with guns and handcuffs? It is evident in those pictures of the fight which were rescued from the attempts of the service men to destroy all photographers' plates that the men were not workmen. We are assured by com- petent sources that the service men smashed many of the pictures and drove reporters off the tion to give a thorough and complete coverage of the Ford unionization drive, have been strangely inadequate in their descriptions of the melee. One newspaper buried on Page 26 the fact that its reporters had been accosted by Ford service men on the public highway and told to "get out of here, buddy, and don't try to put an Wvwstta. Copy received at the oM.' e t Aitant*to the Pres* atU 3:30; 21:00 a.m. an Saturday. 4