Protests against the New Jersey Rafferty Bill, which prohibits the dissemination of news that would discriminate against religious sects and hold them up to ridicule was voiced in a broadcast over Stations WBBR and WNEW by Edwin Keller, secretary to Judge Rutherford.
Fourteen men and women were arrested Saturday while distributing leaflets heralding this broadcast in Jersey City, Plainfield and Nutley, N.J. According to the Peoples’ Pulpit Association, the fourteen distributors merely called at homes and offered the leaflet to the one answering he door.
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