Jewish Labor Committee Demands Annulment of White Paper; Calls on Labor to Combat It

The Jewish Labor Committee today issued a statement protesting against the British White Paper on Palestine, and calling on all workers’ organizations in the United States and upon its affiliates throughout the country “to continue the fight for the immediate annulment of the White Paper and for the right of free Jewish immigration to Palestine.”

“The Jewish Labor Committee,” says the statement, “always regarded the White Paper as an act of discrimination against the Jewish people and a violation of the British mandate of Palestine, which guarantees the Jews the right to free immigration and settlement in Palestine. Now that the time is approaching when all Jewish immigration to Palestine will be completely stopped, as envisaged by the White Paper, the evaluation by the Jewish Labor Committee that it was a product of the tragic appeasement policy is borne out.

“The Jewish Labor Committee expresses its deep satisfaction that the A.F. of L. and C.I.O. national conventions, as well as the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain and the C.C.F. of Canada protested against the White Paper and demanded its annulment.