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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...
...past two years angry unemployed have besieged the Legislatures of Texas and Illinois with demands for more & better relief. Two months ago members of the Workers' Alliance, No. 1 jobless union, marched into the Wisconsin Capitol, spent ten days in the Assembly chamber, were finally put out by police. All last week members of the Workers' Alliance squatted in the New Jersey State House at Trenton while the Legislature was in brief recess. Reason: New Jersey had run out of State relief funds, and 270,000 jobless had been turned back to local authorities to be cared...
...members of the Assembly filed out of their chamber, some 20 members of the Workers' Alliance charged down from the gallery. Ray Cooke, jobless actor and national treasurer of the Alliance, announced: "There will be no violence. We are all peaceful, but we propose to stay here." By nightfall 50 men, women & children were encamped in the Assembly chamber. Bread and meat were brought in, and sandwiches were made on the clerk's desk. A coffee urn was set up under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. John Spain Jr., Workers' Alliance organizer, took the chair as "Speaker...
When the legislature finally reconvened one night early this week, many a member brought his family and friends to see the fun. Besides sightseers, hundreds of jobless had arrived by truck and automobile, jammed State House corridors and the streets outside. From the Assembly floor to the galleries docilely retired all the demonstrators save five led by Ray Cooke. Authorized to state their case, Leader Cooke was promptly shushed when he cried, "I say he's a liar," at an Assemblyman who had charged the demonstrators with being "professional agitators...
...quietly to work. Most active have been the commissions of the three adjoining States of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, which have had no less than ten meetings since last November on labor compacts, anti-crime measures, highway safety, milk control, stream pollution and water supply, relief for jobless transients, use of the waters of the Delaware River basin. No noteworthy compacts have yet been made, but legislative programs have been worked out and the wheels of co-operation have been started turning...