Herbert Harris, an organizer for the ILGWU, was beaten, then tarred and feathered by a Ford Motor Company goon squad and dumped on the doorstep of the Dallas Morning News, August 9, 1937. Another CIO organizer, George Lambert, was beaten severely at the same meeting in a public park. Earlier that day AFL organizer George Baer, trying to organize the local millinery industry, was blackjacked and lost most of his teeth and the sight of one eye. None of these people were trying to organize Dallas Ford, where there was in fact no union movement, but the authorities wanted to discourage all labor organizing. The only person arrested on this day of brutality was Lambert, a victim of the mob action.
Courtesy Special Collections Division, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Arlington. Account courtesy Dr. George N. Green, University of Texas at Arlington.