Evening star., 1938-05-08
Bernard Also Takes
Advice of Labor
Defense Unit.
HEAVILY POLICED
CROWDS ORDERLY
Flag Waving, Parades
Mark Mayors Lesson
to Rest of u. S.
. By the Associated Press.

. By the Associated Press.
JERSEY CITY, N. j., May THE
widely ballyhooed threat of two Con-
gressmen Ito give Mayor Frank
Hague hell" in the baliwick of the vice
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee fizzled tonight after crowd
estimated by police at $1,000 waited
more than four hours for promised
fireworks.
Representatives Jerry j. O'Connell,
Democrat, of Montana, and John T.
Bernard, Farmer-Laborite, of Min
nesota, didn't appear in jammed
Journal Square, where they were
scheduled to defy an eight-year -old city
law prohibiting public speechmaking
without permit-something Norman
Thomas, national chairman of the
Socialist party, attempted week ago
tonight, only to be escorted from the
city.
After four-hour huddle with Vito
Marcantonio, president of the Inter-
national Labor Defense in New York,
the anti-Hague rally planned by the
I. L. D. was Cancelled, Mr.. Marcan-
tonic explaining he could not permit
innocent people to face certain blood
.shed, violence and perhaps death at
the hands of mob melted to do vio-
lence by Mayor Hague through his
henchmen"
Fist Fights Flare.
Except for a few f1are-ups of the
old-fashioned fist-fight variety, the
crowds remained orderly throughout
three hours of waiting, kept on the
move constantly by 800 policemen
under supervision of Public Safety
Director Daniel Casey, who denied
the permit for the meeting and seid
, later he was very pleased with the
way things went of"
Il hope" he said, this will teach
the rest of the country q lesson"
The Representative yielded reluc-
family to Mr.. Marcantonio's decision.
The huge crowd included members
of the State League of War Veterans,
led by Col. Hugh Kelly, secretary to
Democratic Gov. A. Harry Moore
and unions affiliated with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor Marching
to martial tunes of American Legion
and police bands, they carried
placards denouncing communism and
praising Mayor Hague.
There was no way OF telling how
many of Mayor Hague's foes among
the Committee for Industrial Organ
ization and the Civil Liberties Union
or their sympathizers were in the
crowds
Likewise, it could not be determined
positively whether Mayor Hague viewed
the demonstration in the quadrangle
In the heart of the business section
Some reports had it he looked on from
an elevated position in building on
the square, while another had it he
checked with authorities in police
headquarters after Mr. Marcantonio
could be confirmed.
Crowd Disperses Quickly.
Motor cycle officers rode into the
packed square to signal the end of
the demonstration. Crowds dispersed
quickly. Some automobile owners had
difficulty finding their cars, which had
been towed from the square to side
streets.
A few fist fights broke out in the
, journal Square station of the Hudson
and Manhattan Railroad tubes. link
ing New York City and New Jersey,
when youths approached out-of-town-
ers and inquired:
DO you like Hague?"
Those who said they didn't quickly
found themselves in combat, but police
broke up the brief skirmishing. Prin-
cipal injuries were in the form of dis
(See JERSEY paoe A7N