The greatness of America in the years to come will depend on the will and determination of its people to live together in mutual respect and harmony, Senator Dennis Chavez of New Mexico declared last night, addressing a massmeeting urranged by the American Jewish Congress, at the Hotel Commodore.
Senator Chavez, who is chirman of the Senate Education and Labor Committee, which is conducting hearings on a permanent federal Fair Employment Practices Commission, stated that economic democracy in the United States can become a fact only through the enactment of such federal legislation for the climination of racial or religious discrimination.
Other speakers included Charles H. Tuttle, who drafted the Ivos-Quinn antidiscrimination bill recently adopted by the New York State legislature; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Judge Nathan D. Perlman and Rabbi J. X. Cohen. Resolutions were adopted at the meeting paying tribute to Governor Thomas E. Dewey for his part in promoting passage of the Ives-Quinn act, and calling upon him to appoint a commission composed of “publicspirited citizens” to guarantee that the act “will become a landmark in democracy” and also memorializing Congress to enact as soon as possible the Chavez and Norton bills which are substantially identical and which would do on a national scale what the Ives-Quinn act aims to do in New York State.
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