Serious difficulties in administration were cited today by the Post Office Department opposing the Lynch-Dickstein bills to ban incitements to racial and religious hatred from the mails.
Post Office Solicitor Vincent M. Miles was the only witness against the legislation during the two-day hearings at which four Congressmen and 39 civic, religious, and labor leaders appeared. Subcommittee Chairman Samuel Weiss, Pa. Dem., said that he had received 15,000 pieces of mail on the measures during the past week, all of them urging passage.
Miles testified that it was his “personal opinion that there is not as much racial prejudice as some believe,” and that the legislation would cause more racial tension than already exists. Rep. Samuel Dickstein, N.Y. Dem., denounced the Post Office stand as “entirely unjustifiable.” Dr. Samuel Margoshes, columnist of the New York Jewish Newspaper, The Day, who testified today, was among those who urged passage of the bill.
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