The Nation - News from March 5, 1985
A Lutheran pastor who spent 110 days in jail for defying his bishop and a judge was released and vowed to continue to fight for the unemployed in the steel industry and to return to his padlocked steel-town church in Clairton, a Pittsburgh suburb, by Easter. “We are back. We are clearer and stronger than ever in our resolve to fight for the justice the valley is needing,” the Rev. D. Douglas Roth said after his release at dawn.
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