Soviet Ambassador Mexim Lityinoff is being flooded with telegrams from various labor organizations in America and Canada asking his intervention with the Soviet Government to secure the release of the Polish-Jewish socialist leaders Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich, it was learned here today.
The two Jewish labor leaders were rearrested by the Soviet authorities after having been released in Soviet Russia under the Soviet-Polish pact. The organizations which have appealed to Litvinoff include the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the Canadian Commonwealth Federation, the Workmen’s Circle and numerous other labor bodies with large membership. The Jewish Writers Union cabled a direct appeal to the Soviet Government in Kuibyshev asking for the liberation of the arrested Jewish labor leaders who are also prominent journalists.
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