The role of the American labor movement in combatting anti-Semitism and fighting for civil rights will be discussed at a three-day national union anti-bias conference which opens here tomorrow at the Belmont Plaza Hotel. The conference has been arranged by the Jewish Labor Committee.
Reports on the activities of the JLC in the field of racial and religious discrimination will be presented at the conference, which will be addressed by Adolph Held, JLC national chairman; Louis Hollander, president of the New York State CIO; James B. Carey, chairman of the AFL-CIO committee on civil rights; Joseph Montserrat of the Department of Labor, and others. Isaiah Minkoff, executive secretary of the National Community Relations Advisory Council, will speak on “The Role of Jewish Labor in the Jewish Community” and Boris Smolar, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, will discuss “International Developments and Anti-Semitism.”
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