Forty American and Canadian trade union leaders meeting here today adopted a resolution sharply condemning the Soviet Union for its anti-Jewish discriminations. The session was a conference of the executive committee of the Jewish Labor Committee’s Trade Union Council for Human Rights.
Pointing out that Soviet leaders have attempted to counteract world-wide condemnation of their anti-Jewish acts “by issuing propaganda denials,” the resolution stated: “The wave of arrests, and the meting out of death sentences for so-called economic crimes, and the second-class treatment accorded Soviet Jews in every facet of Soviet life, prove conclusively that the Soviets are catering to the lowest form of chauvinist and anti-Semitic sentiments among the population.”
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