LABOR: In Passaic

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Albert Weisbord, jailed on four counts, three of them headed "Hostility to Government" and the fourth "Inciting to Riot," was released on $25,000 bail by the Paterson police, rearrested on the same charges by the Garfield deputies. He could not get another $25,000; so he was taken to a cell— a thin, frail young man but recently graduated from the Harvard Law School. Bainbridge Colby, onetime Secretary of State, spoke vainly on behalf of him and U.S. justice. Later Prosecutor A.C. Hart was persuaded to reduce his bail to $5,000, which was found for him. As Weisbord left the jail, Mr. Hart was heard to say: "Instead of throwing these men into jail we ought to give them a good dousing in the river."

Arthur Garfield Hays, lawyer, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote asking Governor Harry A. Moore of New Jersey to intervene, appended a catalogue of acts committed by the police which he declared to be "mockeries of justice. . . ."

Wives and children of strikers went to Washington, marched to the White House with banners (See THE PRESIDENCY).

Children in Passaic picketed the schools to prevent their classmates from going to class. "No school today," said their banners. From their guarded offices, mill-owners announced that the mills would reopen immediately, that strikers who wanted to go back to work would be given police-protection day and night. Droves of police stood ready.

From their jails, strike-leaders begged their followers to "stand firm."