A resolution urging the immediate “alleviation of the plight of Jews of Europe,” was adopted here at the annual Massachusetts State Convention of the American Federation of Labor. The resolution, expressing “abhorrence of the Nazi concept or racialism which has resulted in the killing of two million innocent Jews in Europe, “urged that the governments of the United Nations adopt a four point program providing that:
1. The United Nations “take prompt and effective measures to rescue the Jews in occupied Europe through transportation to Palestine and other lands where immigration is possible.”
2. Immediate action be taken to restore citizenship to the Algerian Jews who, although born as Frenchmen, lost their citizenship when the Nazi-Vichy government revoked the “Cremieux Law.”
3. Steps be taken to prepare for the “repatriation of all exiles and deportees” to their native lands when “the day of victory comes.”
4. The United Nations “guarantee civil, political and religious rights of Jews and all other minority groups in all the nations of the world.”
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