WPA Cuts - or Jail.

When Frank Murphy became a Supreme Court justice one awkward and embarrassing piece of unfinished business-the mass trials of WPA strikers which the Department of Justice has been carrying on in Minneapolis since last fall. Awkward, because Minneapolis trials are flagrantly incompatible with the New Deal's frequently avowed devotion to democracy and yet the relief strategy appears to demand that trials be carried through to the end. Nearly 162 citizens of Minneapolis are charged with having intimidated fellow WPA workers during last summer's WPA strike and with having conspired to do this.