More than 500 delegates from all over the United States, Canada, Mexico and Israel will attend the Silver Jubilee Convention of the Jewish Labor Committee which opens here Friday morning, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Adolph Held, national chairman of the JLC, will preside.
Highlight of the convention will be the Silver Jubilee banquet on Saturday evening at Ritz Hall at which George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, will acknowledge receipt of a JLC tribute to the organized labor movement “for its steadfast devotion over the past quarter of a century in the fight against oppression, injustice and racism.”
David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, AFL-CIO, will address the convention on domestic and international issues. Several hundred former DP’s, from Nazi and Soviet slave labor camps, whom the JLC was instrumental in rescuing, will be present at the sessions.
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