A demand that the President’s Committee on Government Contracts, which is entrusted with responsibility for weeding out discrimination in employment on Federal projects, act to end the United States Government’s "shameful acquiescence" in Arab discrimination against American Jews was voiced here today at the concluding session of a three-day meeting on civil rights held here under the auspices of the Jewish Labor Committee.
The 300 delegates from 20 national and international labor organizations charged that both the government and private American firms had discriminated against American Jewish employees in their eagerness to conform to Arab states demands. The resolution asked an end of such screening and elimination of Jews.
Other resolutions called for an end to the discriminatory features of the McCarran-Walter Immigration and Naturalization Act, urged the American Automobile Association to remove from its national directory of public accommodations, hotels, motels and restaurants which mask racial and religious discriminatory practices behind the AAA insignia, and asked the International Labor Organization meeting in Geneva to adopt a covenant holding up to public gaze discrimination in employment in countries throughout the world.
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