Biography
John Pado was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 1930 and indicted under New Jersey's sedition law — facing up to fifteen years — for demonstrating against unemployment. He was indicted and awaiting trial.
The September 10 Newark dispatch announces a September 14 joint ILD, ACLU and American Association for the Advancement of Atheism protest against exclusion of defense witnesses on religious-belief grounds. It recalls the earlier S. D. Levin and D. W. Graham trials and names Dave Rausen, John Pado, Joseph Lepshivicius, Morris Langer, Edward Childs and Albert Heder for trials planned that month. It describes the earlier proceedings as last May, while the existing Graham account records a June 10 conviction; the source wording is preserved without replacing the independently recorded conviction chronology. Neither the protest nor a scheduled trial establishes a new physical custody endpoint.
