Rep. Emanuel Celler today proposed an amendment to admit 7,000 Shanghai refugees, mostly Jewish, in testimony before the House Representatives Judiciary Committee in behalf of his new DP bill to amend present legislation.
The Celler Bill resembles closely other DP bills now pending. It provides for an increase in the number to be admitted from 200,000 to 400,000; moving forward the cut-off date to April 21, 1947; elimination of preference for farmers; deletion of employment and housing assurances; removal of in-camp priority; a revolving fund for loans for reception and transportation from ports of entry; no visas for anyone who advocated or participated in religious persecution; and other liberalizing measures.
Present DP legislation was today condemned by Philip Murray, president of the ?.I.O. Murray said that admission of 100,000 DP’s a year for the next four years as proposed by the Collar Bill would have no effect on the Job situation in the United State. He said that he stood behind liberalizing measures now being considered by Congress to revise the much criticized DP Act of 1948.
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