Twenty Governors from all parts of the country joined today in condemning anti-Semitism as a manifestation of un-American intolerance which must be eradicated from our national life.
The Governors made known their views in communications to the two-day National Conference to Combat Anti-Semitism which opens on Sunday at the Hotel Pennsylvania on the call of the American Jewish Congress. The chief executives were forthright in their demands for elimination of discrimination based upon religious or racial considerations which they characterized variously as a menace to American democracy and a threat to national unity.
The National Conference to Combat Anti-Semitism will be attended by delegates from all over the nation. Its objective will be the creation of a program of concrete and militant action to eradicate anti-Semitism and all forms of intolerance based upon race, creed or color, under the direction of a National Commission to Combat Anti-Semitism, headed by former Attorney General Carl Sherman, Among the speakers during the sessions will be Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Norman Littell, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor and James B. Carey, secretary-treasurer of the CIO.
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