A resolution presented today to the annual convention of the Massachusetts Federation of Labor by Jewish Labor Committee national vice-president Philip Kramer, of Boston, asked the AFL group to condemn the “policy of gross and flagrant discrimination practiced by the governments of the Arab states against American citizens of the Jewish faith.”
In addition to describing the actions of the Arab nations as “in utter violation of fundamental American principles of religious liberty and equality of citizenship,” the resolution goes on to call upon the President, the Congress and the State Department “to reject any treaty or executive agreements which shall permit other governments to forbid the advantages of travel, employment, trade or service to their nation to American citizens because of their race or religious affiliation.”
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