A conference called by New York State Attorney General Louie J. Lefkowitz will be held here tomorrow to determine whether new state laws are needed to deal with hate literature.
In announcing that II civic and religious groups had been invited to participate, Mr. Lefkowitz indicated he was considering a state crackdown on such literature after investigations indicated that the current epidemic of anti-Semitic incidents was touched off at least partly by a stream of hate material published and distributed by neo-Nazi groups and the United Arab Republic propaganda ministry.
The New York City Council adopted a resolution yesterday calling on the police to mobilize all possible security forces to protect houses of worship in the city. The resolution, which is simply an expression of opinion and does not have any force of law, was aimed at persons committing “Nazi-like desecration and defilement.”
The proposal would direct Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy to draw on police cadets, auxiliaries or any other units volunteering to augment the 23, 000 regular police in setting up guards for the city’s 3,364 churches and synagogues. During the debate. Minority Leader Stanley Isaacs termed “hysteria” the order of City Magistrate Milton Solomon that a charge of treason be placed under state law against three Queens youths arrested on charges of swastika daubing.
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