Jewish Labor Convention Urges Full Integration in Southern Schools

A resolution calling for all-out implementation of the United States Supreme Court’s decision on integration of white and Negro schoolchildren in the Southern states was adopted here today at the concluding session of the week-long convention of the Workmen’s Circle. The Jewish organization, which has 90,000 members in the United States and Canada, has several large and active branches in the South.

The delegates also called for repeal of the McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act and the substitution of a measure “of more humane qualities” and of a policy of freer immigration “consonant with the best interests of the judicial process. “

In addition, the Workmen’s Circle called on Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to demand of the Arab states that they call off their boycott of American and other nations” companies which either employ Jews or Israeli nationals or have commercial contacts with Israel. A resolution said that the “continued policies of the Communist-controlled Arab federation and other Arab states constitutes a violation of the Human Rights Charter of the United Nations, for it brings an economic boycott against not only a fellow member of the UN but against the citizens of other UN members. “

The delegates sent their greetings to the State of Israel on the occasion of its tenth anniversary. However, they expressed official “dismay” that the Yiddish language had not been recognized by the State of Israel and added the hope that the Yiddish language would be given a status equal to that of Hebrew. Israel Breslaw, American labor leader, was elected the new president of the fraternal organization. He succeeds Jacob Zuckerman.