Progress on Anti-bias Legislation Reported in 32 States and Municipalities in U.S.

Listing 32 states and municipalities in the United States which have made the greatest progress in enacting anti-bias legislation, Rabbi Irving Miller, president of the American Jewish Congress, last night chided the Federal Government for its record on this issue. Rabbi Miller made his statement at the first 1950 meeting of the A.J.C. national executive committee.

Expressing the solidarity of the American Jewish Congress behind the recent action of the state of Israel in moving additional government offices in Jerusalem, Rabbi Miller praised the sympathy and understanding shown by the American press for Israel’s position. Discussing the overwhelming problems confronting Israel this year as a consequence of “this new, brave state’s determination to solve the problem of Jewish homelessness wherever it exists by maintaining the policy of unlimited immigration,” he called on chapters of the Congress throughout the U.S. to go “all-out” in support of the 1950 United Jewish Appeal campaign.