Hague v. Liberty

Frank Hague, mayor and boss of Jersey City, testified last week in Federal Court at, Newark in defense of his hardboiled suppression of C. I. O. in his domain (TIME, June 13). His argument: although his ordinance requiring a permit for the distribution of handbills was unconstitutional, his police in seizing handbills from their distributors and ejecting "invaders'" from Jersey City were doing their duty. preserving the peace and protecting such visitors from violence. To demonstrate Jersey City's "Americanism," Boss Hague led a parade of 16,000 National Guardsmen, A. F. of L. Unionists, war veterans and loyal Hague-sters to Journal Square, mounted a reviewing stand with Colonel Hugh A. Kelly of the Veterans' Law & Order Committee, Daniel C. Casey, his director of public safety, and Mrs. Mary Teresa

Norton, who at one & the same time is Labor's champion as co-author of the new Wages-&-Hours bill and grateful to Boss Hague for her seat in the House of Representatives. They waved flags while 150,000 cheered.

Exulted the Boss: "It's American. It's the only answer to radicalism. I allowed the people to answer!"

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