8x10 glossy. Pencil notation on back reads "Chief Carl A. Brooks talks to Morris Silverman, union man issuing papers to workers." Date stamped 1937 Dec 8 and Dec 11 1937. Ink notations note "Gate number 4-Ford Motors Co./Labor Unions/U.A.W." Dearborn Police Chief Carl A. Brooks was charged by Judge Homer Ferguson (later a US Senator) with taking graft for protecting the National Daily Bankers, the biggest numbers racket in Michigan, with a reported yearly take of $500,000 in Dearborn alone. The long time trouble between Police and Government vs. Union Laborers included the Ford Hunger March of 1932 when Dearborn Police and Ford employees at the Rouge Plant fired into a group of 3,000 unarmed demonstrates and killed five of them. Also the infamous Battle of the Overpass in 1937 when Ford thugs brutalized Walter Reuther and other labor organizers at the plant. After his indictment Chief Brooks was arrested on his farm outside of town, collapsing on his way back to Dearborn and never even made the arraignment. He died of a heart attack within three weeks. Age tone in background and right margin. VG.