A mass meting, sponsored by the New York Conference on Soviet Jewry, a body composed of 28 local and national Jewish organizations, will be held on June 3 at Madison Square Garden here to protest the suppression of religious and cultural freedom of Soviet Jewry, it was announced today by Label Katz, chairman of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry.
Mr. Katz said that the rally, which will be the largest single protest against Soviet Jewish discrimination to be held anywhere in the world, will initiate a drive to amass 1,000,000 signatures to petitions urging President Johnson to use his influence upon Soviet leadership to extend to Soviet Jewry those rights to pursue religious and cultural expression granted other Soviet minorities.
Preceding the mass meeting will be numerous street rallies and other events scheduled by leading labor, fraternal and civic groups in all major areas of the city to dramatize the June 3 convocation and lend their public voice condemning Soviet discriminatory practices against minorities.
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