“Politically motivated” convictions and imprisonment of Soviet Russian Jews were protested and condemned today by the Executive Council of the Textile Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO. The Council is holding a five-day meeting here. The 22-member TWUA Council, called upon the Soviet government to “grant its Jewish minority religious and cultural freedom and the right to emigrate freely.” The Council urged the U.S. government to “initiate action promptly within the United Nations to assure compliance by all of its member countries with the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination.” This document has already been ratified by 46 nations, including the USSR, the TWUA Council noted. It provides for the right of anyone to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country as well. “The Soviet government’s refusal to accord this right to its Jewish minority reveals the ugliness of its anti-Semitic policies,” according to William Pollock, TWUA General President, who is presiding over the Executive Council’s meetings.
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