The local City Council has urged the Federal Government to take action in the United Nations in protest of the “Communist atrocities against the Jewish people.” A unanimous resolution asked for cooperation with the U.N. to “secure a haven for those victims who can be saved from the grip of Communism. “Such heinous crimes against humanity shall strengthen our resolution to combat in any necessary manner the doctrine of Communism and secure the liberation of all oppressed people and bring freedom to the world,” the resolution said.
In Ottawa the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, attacking the new wave of Jewish persecution behind the Iron Curtain, called on affiliates for renewed action to rid themselves of Communists. Protest meetings against Soviet anti-Semitism were held in Winnipeg and Toronto. A protest rally in Montreal will take place on March 8th under the auspices of the Canadian Jewish Congress, the United Zionist Council and the Jewish Labor Committee.
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