Governor Edmund G. Brown today announced his support of efforts by the California Committee to Protest Soviet Anti-Semitism in securing signatures on a petition against Soviet anti-Semitism, which will be submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. The Committee is sponsored by the Jewish Labor Committee and the Workmen’s Circle here.
The petition will be circulated beginning August 24, which marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the infamous Hitler-Stalin pact. Support of the petition was also announced by W. J. Bassett, executive secretary of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, who said that “the Soviet Union is the only major power in the world today, where anti-Semitism is officially inspired. We cannot permit these violations of human rights to go unheeded by world public opinion. “
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