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Conference of Jewish Trade Unionists Calls for Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine

July 15, 1945
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More than 300 representatives of national trade Unions, including the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Millinery Workers Union, meeting yesterday at the Hotel Pennsylvinia, unanimously adopted a resolution demanding the abrogation of the White Paper and the opening of the doors of Palestine.

The conference, speaking in the name of hundreds of thousands of Jewish workers, called upon the world to pay its moral debt to the Jews by “opening the gates of Palestine and by establishing Palestine as a democratic Jewish Commonwealth with full rights for all its inhabitants.” It appealed to President Truman to Congress and to American public opinion to see to it that the Atlantic Charter “be applied also to the Jewish people and that America come to the aid of the Jewish people in its fight for freedom and full dignified status in its historic homeland, Palestine.”

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