A resolution assailing the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act and asking Congress to remove discriminatory clauses from the measure was adopted here today at the biennial convention of the National Council of Jewish women. Mrs. Moises Cahn of New Orleans was elected president of the organization.
The convention also called on the 245 Council sections to concentrate their efforts in the fields of civil liberties and civil rights, health and welfare services, immigration law and service to the foreign born during the next two years. In a series of resolutions on national and international issues, the delegates urged the United States Government to increase its efforts for the development of economic and social stability and political democracy throughout the world.
Another resolution urged U. S. cooperation with other nations to develop nuclear energy for peaceful use and “make possible economic and social progress for all peoples.” The delegates also urged extension of social security programs; national state and local housing programs to low and middle income families with special stress on the aged; and greatly increased educational, recreational and legal facilities for children on a non-segregated basis.
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