A society of the Newark Episcopal Diocese served notice today that church members who took part in allegedly anti-Semitic and racist activities of a state Young Republicans faction may face excommunication.
The warning was given by the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity of the Newark Diocese. It was sent to Ray C. Bliss, Republican national chairman, Webster B. Todd, New Jersey state chairman, and U.S. Senator Clifford Case.
Members of the rightwing faction, who call them selves Rat Finks, have been charged with singing blatantly anti-Semitic and anti-Negro songs at a state and a national Young Republican convention last summer. National and state leaders of the senior republican Party and leaders of the state Young Republicans have announced plans for formal investigations. Public hearings on the charges will begin in Trenton on February 26.
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