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J. L. C. Urges Ïâ¿??big Fourãâ¿?? Discussion on Jewish Fate in S. S. P.

May 16, 1955
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A resolution asking Secretary of State John Fester Dulles to look into the feasibility of placing the face of 2,000,000 Jewish in the Soviet Union on the agenda of the Big Four conference to be held this summer in Europe was adopted here today at the closing session of the three-day na????al constriction of the Jewish Labor Committee which represent half a million organized Jewish workers.

ï¿??On the eve of the forthcoming Big Four parley we demand of the representatives of our government that they should not forget on demands by the regard to the Jews behind the Iron Curtain ï¿?? the resolution stated. ï¿??We ask for a sign of good faith by the Soviet Union in that they permit free communication between they relatives in the free nations and citizens of the USSR. That they permit free emigration that they end once and for all, the slave labor camps that they give assurance of the free development of Jewish culture. The Yiddish language and Jewish schools and ??ss they reveal that has happened to prominent Jewish writers and schools whose works vanished suddenly after World War II.ï¿??

In another resolution the delegates went on record originating the main ministration of the Refugee Act of 1953. The resolution pointed out the, although the Curtain ï¿??it has ï¿??turned into a tragic failure because of the obstacles in the few and its unsympathetic administrationï¿?? The same resolution also by the McCreran-Wa??er Immigration Act as ï¿??violating our traditional democratic ?????pts and damaging our reputation abroad by alienating friendly peoples.ï¿??

CONVENTION URGES U.S. TO CONSIDER ISRAELÏ¿??S POSITION

Another resolution on the Middle took issue with the United States foreign policy for the area. The resolution calling for tranquility and peaceful relations between Israel and the Arab states urged intensified consideration for Israelï¿??s danger in the face of aggressive attacks from her neighbors. A???? same time the JLC called upon the State of Israel to give the Yiddish language ï¿??its proper place in Israel culture.ï¿??

The delegates called upon the House and Sense to appoint a joint committee to investigate infractions of civil liberties in the United States and on the bests of its findings to recommend the means of restating these infringements on our basic rights.ï¿?? Fair investigative procedures were also advocated by the delegates. The conference also took action in face or of a Federal FEPC law working together for such legislation with the labor movement and for the ï¿??establishment of a pavement own rights corn mission in the United States Department of Justice to police isolations of evil rightsï¿?? The enactment of Federal anta lynch law was also advocated.

JEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE HELPS NON-JEWISH CA JA-EN IN FUROPE.

Over $5,500,000 was spent by the Jewish Labor Committee in the course of 10 years for child care overseas it was revealed by Nathan chairman of the administrative committee of the JLC in his report to the final session Mr. Chanin pointed out that immediately after the war there was a race between the pre-democratic and Communist forces for the minds and bodies a surviving Jewish ? ch???ren in liberated Europe.

ï¿??Luckilyï¿?? Mr. Chenin continued ï¿??the JLC got there first Since the end of World War II about 8,000 children were given refuge rent was health and courage in the sanatoriums and homes built and maintained by the JLC the Workman Circle and the Jewish labor movement in this countryï¿?? Mr. Chanin reported so that the JLC has been maintaining childrenï¿??s colonies and schools where Jewish DP chairman had been nourished physicality emotionally and culturally in the democratic ?.ï¿?? He ?????led that the JLC supports a number of non-Jewish children whose parents ? shed in the underground in Italy. Some of them were killed by the Nazis for the effuses of helping Jews tic. ï¿??The JLC has been supporting the Main ? Catholic home in Italy where children mutilated during the war are maintained. This ? is don out of gr???ude for the assistance in hiding Jewish children by the Catholic in ? who run the some during the occupation of Italy by the N???s. The being is necessary Main ? ? C????n reported. He pointed out that his organization has first fired. ? ? ? ? program which has embraced a total of some 2,500 or plan children who are ? ? ? by ???mons and shops with hundreds of worries of ( The Image is unclear. Go over the next paragraph)

DELEGATES HONOR ADOLPH HELD ON 70TH B????SY 826,000 RATEED.

A special session of the JLC connection was developed by ? Adolph Held national chairman of the organization on the occasion of the 70th ???hety. It was announced at the session that more than $25,000 have been contract????? ???? groups and individuals in honor of Mr. Held for a special funds which will ? ? Messages of greeting were received from leading ? ? its in apprises ? of the world including President Eisenhower. Among he speakers who paid ??bute to Mr. Held were Harry Royoff editor-in-chief of the Jewish Darty Forward Mr. Chenin ? a secretary of the Workmen Circle Julies Hoonman ? manages of the Dress point Board Always anger Kahn general manager of the Jewish Datty Forward and ????rs.

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