"FREEDOM OF THE PRESS"
"Freedom of the Press" was a burning issuo to 1, 100^000 persons who were denied the right to read new-spapers on the sands of Coney Island. They were told they not only couldn't read them — but they couldn't sit on them eithor. The edict was issued by New York City's Department of Sanitation in a driv© to keep Coney Island 's beaehes clearj.Recently 100 members of the department 's litter squad walked methodically through a crowd of 1,100,000 weekeud sun worshippcrs, yanking their newspapers right and left. There were [^mauy protests, but all to no avail. The .
law had decreed clcan bcaches. News-. papers litter bcches. NeAVspapers must go. They went. The people found a champion in Honry Forman^ Coney Island 's one-man sit-down strikor. "When a Department of Sanitation agent told Mr. Forman he couldn't sit on a paper sack, the latter replied he could sit on a taek if he wanted to. He sat on the sack until he was t#-* moved to jail. But Magistrate David L. Malbim freed Mr. Forman with the (statemenl his arrest had been ''the most outrageous abuse of power I ever heard of."'
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 208, 18 September 1937, Page 17
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195"FREEDOM OF THE PRESS" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 208, 18 September 1937, Page 17
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