The executive council of the AFL-CIO meeting here this week adopted a resolution that stressed the important role of the United States in guaranteeing world peace. The top echelons of American labor warned that Soviet intervention in the Middle East was against the American policy of peace and freedom and that “the AFL-CIO reaffirms its wholehearted solidarity with Israel and its labor federation, Histadrut. We urge our government to give Israel full diplomatic, political and economic support in her efforts to secure a just peace settlement.” A second resolution on the right of Jews to leave the Soviet Union demanded that Jews be allowed to exercise their rights to leave for Israel and other lands.
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