A resolution sponsored by the American Jewish Congress, requiring corporate disclosure of participation in the Arab boycott of Israel or in discrimination of Jews at the behest of the boycott, received 2.7 percent of the votes of shareholders yesterday at the annual meeting of the General Electric Co.
Loeb Granoff, a Kansas City attorney representing the AJCongress and the Jewish Community Relations Bureau of Greater Kansas City, voted proxies for 350 shares of stock including 20 owned by Irene Kleinberg, of Riverdale, N.Y., who originally presented the resolution. The AJCongress resolution, which is similar to one being offered at other annual meetings of major American corporations, received a higher vote than any of the other resolutions opposed by the GE management at yesterday’s meeting.
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