The Canadian Labor Congress disclosed today that, at the request of the 150,000 member Montreal Labor Council CIO, it would ask the Government of Canada to take up at the United Nations the situation of Russian Jewry.
The Congress said it would also ask the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions to condemn “recent demonstrations of anti-Semitic policies of the Soviet Government.” The developments were the latest in a series of Canadian public expressions of concern over developments affecting Jews in the Soviet Union.
The new French-language daily of Montreal, Le Nouveau Journal, reprinted the poem, “Babi Yar,” by the young Russian poet, Eugen Yevtushenko, which created a storm of controversy in Russia for its condemnation of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. The daily also carried a review of the development of Russian policy toward Jews which said that the trends cast a doubt over the de-Stalinization process which Premier Khrushchev was claiming to implement.
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