Brooklyn and other communities in the New York metropolitan area are being flooded with scurrilous hate sheets and pamphlets, many of them coming from the National States Rights Party in Birmingham, Ala., Abraham Lindenbaum, president of the Brooklyn Jewish Community Council, reported to the Council’s board of directors today.
Mr. Lindenbaum said that the Council “will seek to have the postal laws tightened so that scurrilous material can be barred from the mails.” He also announced the appointment of a committee of attorneys to study the postal mailing laws to seek the preparation of legislation aimed at combating hate publications. The committee members are Howard J. Fisch, Harold Kalb, Solon Hanft and Moses Hoenig.
He said that the Council will coordinate its campaign against hate publications with other groups such as the Brooklyn Division of the Protestant Council. He added that postal officials admit that they are helpless to bar this type of mailing under present law.
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