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Seeking relief as the worsening Depression
tightened its grip on Detroit, 3,000 laid-off autoworkers marched on the
Ford Motor Company's River Rouge plant in Dearborn. There, police and
Ford security personnel used tear gas and water hoses on the crowd. When
the demonstrators started throwing things, the police opened fire. The
Battle of the River Rouge (also called the Ford Hunger March) left five
marchers dead and sixty wounded.
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