Organized American Labor Opposes Anti-israel Sanctions

President George Meany of the AFL-CIO said here that American labor stands “opposed to the imposition of sanctions against Israel by the United Nations.”

Mr. Meany said U. S. workers found it difficult to understand “how our government ever got maneuvered into the impossible position of siding with the dictatorships and against democracy in the Middle East–with Soviet Russia and Egypt which are the real threats to peace, and against Israel which seeks only an undisturbed opportunity to build a better life for its people.” He described the sanctions threat against Israel as “a travesty on justice.”