American Jewish Congress Gets Cio Award for Furthering Democracy by Combatting Bias

Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, Jacob S. Pobofsky, president of the Amelgemated Clothing Workers of America and Emil Rieve, president of the Textile Workers Union, tonight received on behalf of their organizations awards from the CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination.

The awards were presented for “outstanding service to the cause of economic and political democracy in the field of race relations.” In a brief address, Dr. Wise recalled that Hitler had destroyed the trade union movement as part of his seizure of power and said that a veto of the Taft-Hartley Bill by President Truman will strengthen economic democracy in the U.S. Mr. Potofsky warned that the peddlers of race hatred must be stopped now before economic unrest provides a fertile field for their propaganda.