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there too, and they started planning a meeting to decide what to do.
ELEVEN O'CLOCK:
Came back to apartment after eating with
Sampson, who was jubilant. I read the papers, some of Sartre's
Nausea,
told a few staff people what happened, finally relaxed enough
to fall asleep around 2:00. New fan in the room created cool air;
people in Trenton gave
it
to us.
TUESDAY:
Had to be up at 8:00, everyone else asleep, littered
around on couches and the floor. J.C., a staff guy from the neighbor–
hood, was asleep on the stairs because he came back late and the
door was locked. Walked over to Vera's on Hunterdon where Junius
sleeps, woke him up for the car keys. Got to 18th Avenue about 9:00,
arid drove downtown along with another carload. Let everyone off
at City Hall, while I parked. Wanted to get in late, personally, so
the officials wouldn't be able to deal with me as the leader. When I
got upstairs, all nine people were sitting around the desk of the
Deputy Mayor, Reilly. Newark, though it's over half Negro,
is
run
currently by the Italians (most people
think
it's the syndicate). Reilly
is the one Irish official around Mayor Addonizio, but he certainly
doesn't appear to he anti-Administration. He looks like he is all
pomade; he tries to talk, and gesture with his hand, like John Ken–
nedy, but it comes off awkwardly. All the Newark political people are
provincials. We first ran into Reilly during last summer's riot scare,
when he came down to our office to persuade us against demonstrat–
ing. People made him wait outside the door for forty-five minutes,
then spumed his pleas. We had several other encounters with him
at his office, mostly so people would get experience in carrying their
problems to City Hall. He always kept his provincial charm, except
for the time that a woman threatened to hit him with
his
own ash tray.
This morning Reilly was cordial, surrounded by a half-dozen
aides, including the chiefs of Sanitation, Traffic and Signals and the
Fourth Police Precinct. The people were telling him off in relatively
polite terms, no one acting as spokesman. One elderly lady told about
all
the accidents that happened during all the years she was a registered
Democrat; Reilly thanked her for registering and reporting the ac–
cidents. A young guy said Newark is a "powder keg"; Reilly said the
whole Administration was worried but felt that "communication" was
better in Newark than other cities with racial tension. Sampson kept
saying we would demonstrate again if a light wasn't put up; Reilly
