Evening star., 1938-05-07
0'ConneII and Bernard Go
Ahead With Plans to
Appear in Square.
PERMITS ARE DENIED
PAIR AS OBNOXIOUS
Clash of Lawmakers and Hague
Police Seen as Certain if
They Defy Mayor.
picture on page A-8.)

By t ne Assc ciated Press.
JERSEY CITY, N. j., May 1.-Two
United States Representatives we're
| denied permission today to make
public speeches in Jersey City tonight
by Public Safety Director Daniel
Casey. who described them as per-
sonally obnoxious to the great ma
prity of our citizens because of their
Communistic endeavors"
Representatives Jerry J. O'Connell.
Democrat, of Montana and John T.
Bernard. Farmer-Labor. Of Minne-
sofa nevertheless carried forward plans
to address mass meeting in Journal
Square. where Socialist Leader Nor
man Thomas last week made, unsuc-
ceSsfully. similar attempt
Mr.. Casey said his denial was based
on the ground that said meeting
would tend to create disorder and
disturbance"
Two groups of organizations with
opposite objectives planned to observe
a seemingly inevitable clash of Jersey
City police and the Congressmen-
war veterans who backed Mayor
Frank Hague. vice chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, in
his stand against radicals" and Or
ganizations which charged Mayor
Hague with the suppression of civil
rishts.
To Go TO Jersey by Auto.
Mr.. O'Connell and Mr. Bernard
planned to travel from Washington
to New York by train and thence to
Jersey City, just across the Hudson
River. by automobile.
I'm going to Jersey City be-
ca,lSe l feel I have the right 70
go there as an American citizen"
Representative Barnard said here
today. If it was proper for me
to go to France to fight for the
! financial interests of Wall Street,
| 1t is even more my duty to go to
/ Jersey City to fight for the free
| dom of its citizens.
cit is not my attitude that We
are going anywhere to make
trouble
Uniformed of the ban announced
by Mr.. Casey in Jersey City, the
Minnesota Representative explained
that there is committee meeting
him and Mr.. O'Connell in New
York and that they will abide by
whatever decision is made at that
time)
There was a possibility that when
appointed scene. midtown Journal
Square. they would find it too crowded
to permit their entrance. The last
time the citizens of Jersey City were
| called upon to support their Mayor
nearly $4,000 of them jammed the
armory for rally against the red
invasion of the C. I. O.
The presence of several thousand
veterans was promised. and last night
two organizations affiliated with the
A. F. of L.. the Hudson County Build
ing and Construction Trades Council
and the Central Labor Union, joined
in the protest against the invasion"
Michael F. Condron of Orange, vice
president of the State Federation Of
Labor. termed Mayor Hague the best
statesman in America" and said, Let
Jerry OConnell bring 1000 Reds along
with him and they'll get good warm
reception, I hope"
Denying the application of the Hud-
son County Committee for Labor De-
tense and Civil Rights for a permit for
mass meeting with Mr. O'Connell
and Mr.. Bernard as speakers, Mr..
Casey wrote today:
There has been considerable agita-
ton by veteran and labor organiza-
tions and war mothers. and Gold Star
Mothers and other civic groups in our
city as result of their announcement
in the press that they were going to
appear here to speak.
Your request therefore will be de-
MED on the ground that said meeting
would tend to create disorder and dis
turbance.'
Veterans Protests Cited.
Veterans protests nave been given
as the grounds for denying several
public meeting permits in the past.
A week ago Norman Thomas, So
cialiSt party chairman. drove up to
Journal square to make a May Day
speech and was hustled off to a New
York-bound ferry
Opponents of Hague who declared
they would be present tonight included
Artist Rockwell Kent, chairman of
the National Committee for Peoples
Rights; Author George Seldes, head
ing a delegation of the American
League for Peace and Democracy, and
Martin Bernstein. who last week was
prevented from distributing copies of
the official Socialist r,a rtu ornan