A delegation representing organized labor in Canada today presented a request to the Soviet Embassy here to permit the entrance into the Soviet Union of a special Canadian labor commission with a view to study on the spot the position of the Jews there.
The delegation was received by the first secretary of the Soviet Embassy, who angrily replied that this request could never be complied with because it smacks with “colonialism.” The delegation left with the Soviet official a memorandum listing the anti-Jewish discriminations now practiced in Russia and advancing a demand for equal rights for Soviet Jews.
The delegation was composed of representatives of the Jewish Labor Committee, Canadian Labor Congress, and the New Democratic Party. It was escorted by more than 100 trade union leaders from all over Canada carrying banners demanding restoration of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union and equal treatment of Jewish religious institutions.
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