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Show POLICE ARREST UNIONWORKERS DETROIT, Dec. 9 CP Sixty-one members of the United Automobile Workers' union faced charges of violating a traffic ordinance today as a remit of the union's defiance of a Dearborn ruling that handbills could not be distributed at the Miller road gates of the Ford Motor company com-pany plant. The union Indicated it expected to make a teat case of the ordinance. The union men were arrested yesterday yes-terday as -they-attempted to dur tribute U. A. W. newspapers in the forbidden tone. The police and unionists treated each other with elaborate courtesy and there was no disorder. The 61 arretted were released on their personal per-sonal rcognjsance after being held at Dearborn police headquarters for about two hours. As the patrol wagons unloaded the union men at the police station and policemen led them to the bullpen bull-pen they sang "Solidarity Forever," the U. A. W. marching song. The union announced It was preparing pre-paring a petition for submission to Governor Frank Murphy demanding the removal of Mayor John L Carey on the theory ha was "guilty of official of-ficial misconduct1 In prohibiting the distribution at the Ford gates, scene of disorder last spring. James E. Greene, Dearborn "corporation "cor-poration counsel, said the men were charged with violating traffic ordinance ordi-nance No. 104, which "authorizes the safety commission to make all necessary rules and regulations for direction of traffic and xontng of streets." |