The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia today staged its eighth picketing demonstration before the Russian Embassy since March 2, in protest against Soviet anti-Semitism. Today’s demonstration, for the time being, is the last to be organized by the Jewish community of the Philadelphia area. A total of 24 bus loads of persons representing constituent organizations of the community council participated in the course of the eight demonstrations.
Leaders of today’s demonstrations, including Harry H. Rosenthal, coordinator of the picketing and an official of the Community Council, met with Soviet Embassy officials. They were given quantities of printed propaganda purporting to depict the free exercise of Judaism in the Soviet Union. The pickets later met with members of Congress and with an official of the State Department.
The pickets included 10 representatives of the Philadelphia region of the Jewish Labor Committee and the Negro Trade Union Leadership Council of Philadelphia. James H. Jones, president of the Negro Council of Philadelphia, told Anatoli G. Myshkov, first secretary of the Russian Embassy here: “We are concerned about this problem of Russian anti-Semitism as Americans. Just as there are Jewish people now down in Alabama, marching with Negroes, I have come here together with my Jewish friends.”
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