A Judge With a Heart and a Social Conscience
A Judge With a Heart and a Social Conscience FUNERAL OF LABOR MARTYR ATTENDED BY THOUSANDS DETROIT.—The funeral of Carl Swanson, 26-year-old Socialist and trade unionist, drew hundreds...
...A Judge With a Heart and a Social Conscience FUNERAL OF LABOR MARTYR ATTENDED BY THOUSANDS DETROIT.—The funeral of Carl Swanson, 26-year-old Socialist and trade unionist, drew hundreds oi workers who came to pay their respects to him and to renew their pledge to win better conditions...
...Swanson is the latest...
...Swanson was standing on the sidewalk when the shot was g fired...
...Swanson died as a result of being shot in the back by Eugene Green, scab foreman at the Motor Products Corp., when he accompanied a committee to the foreman's house to ask him for support...
...William L. Polley of Kansas City was first...
...Five thousand workers are involved in the Motor Products strike which is now in its sixth : week...
...After struggling for three weeks he finally succumbed...
...Swanson's death brought the toll of Socialists killed in the class • struggle to three within the last two months...
...No attempt was made to arrest Green until after the funeral and until the Detroit Federation of Labor demanded action from the Mayor...
...Joseph Shoemaker of Tampa, Fla., was second...
Vol. 18 • December 1935 • No. 52
