NEW JERSEY: Mice & Men

Under the gallery stares of frowsy jobless, who for eight days had camped on the floor holding mock sessions (TIME, May 4), New Jersey's reassembled Assembly last week shunted the relief problem back to helpless municipalities. It passed a bill, approved the same evening by the State Senate, which sets up a commission composed of Governor Harold G. Hoffman and four Republican officials to disburse State relief money if & when available, failed to provide a tax system to raise it, adjourned.

The radical jobless left Trenton angrily threatening to elect their own...

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