National Affairs: 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,...

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