The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-28

Continued from Page 1.) of the burden of feeding and housing relief clients, Q burden passed to them 10 days ago when state funds were exhausted.
 Ofncers of the New Jersey League of Municipalities notified state au- thorities last week that not more than one-fourth of it's member communities could provide unassis- ted for their poor. Commissioners of one township dramatized the statement by printing begging per- n1its for 450 families which have existed since on charity solicited in a house-to-house canvess.
 State House Filled
 Legislators who have been quar- reling over rival relief tax schemes since last October found the state house filled and surrounded by un- employed hunger" marchers. In front of the building pickets marched with banners proclaiming that We want milk for our ba- bies," and soapbox speakers urged tight clusters of worried men and women, some of them clutching weary children, to Ego back home after this meeting and organize a farmer-labor party"
 At the hour set for convening the legislature, 8:15, the assembly chamber balconies were packed and the floor thronged with assembly, men pushing to their seats through 8 crowd of unemployed. By agree ment arrived at in the afternoon, members of the mock legislature that had held the floor since last Tuesday moved to the balcony. The assembly gave the courtesy of the floor" to 8 committee of five of the campers.
 Police Guard Entrance
 Two state policemen guarded the entrance to the balcony, six more stood at vantage points in its rear, and 8 heavier force waited in re- serve in 8 room near the chamber. Less elaborate precautions were ta- ken to guard senators, who drew a smaller audience. Ray Cooke, sec retary of the Workers Alliance of America, precipitated the only sem- blance of disturbance stating, 10 minutes after the session began, that Assemblyman J. Parnell Thom- as of Bergen county "is a liar" He had just read to the assembly a re- port from members of an A. F. of L. farm laborers' union in Cumber- land county that wages of 10 to IS cents and hour had created vir- tual peonage in southern New Jersey.
 Called Him Liar
 "I am now going to say some thing personal" he announced as he laid the typed report on desk.
 "Assemblyman Thomas-J. Par nell Thomas of Bergen-in mes sage to the governor charged that we were professional agitatorS. I am here to tell him to his face that he is a liar"
 Several republican assemblymen leaped to their feet with objections. Cooke's supporters in the gallery leaned tensely over the rail.
 q move that his man be elected" shouted Assemblyman Hugh c. Baldwin, r., Essex county.
 Immediately he withdrew the mo- ton and substituted one revoking Cooke's right to address the assem- ply. It passed 50 to 5. Cooke Still Stuck
 Cooke stayed on the floor, despite Baldwin's subsequent protests. Speaker Marcus w. Newcomb ruled that Baldwin's resolution had not deprived Cooke of the privilege of the floor.
 Members of the unemployed dem- !, onstrators, with fresh recruits, took possession of the assembly floor as soon as the legislators departed. Cooke made another speech, reit- erating his statement that the pro- test movement was not profession al agitation" Approximately 1000 persons stayed two hours to watch the mock legislature in action be- fore its members, at midnight, went to bed"