More than 30,000 persons filled Yankee Stadium is afternoon to protest against the American Government’s policy reversal on Palestine. At a city-wide demonstration arranged by the AEL, CIO and National Committee ##r Labor Palestine offices here, which followed a protect work stoppage in hundreds factories in New York, a resolution urging the immediate implementation of the U.N. partition decision was unanimously adopted.
James B. Corey, CIO secretary-treasurer, Leon Henderson, chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, Jacob S. Potofsky, president of the Amalgamated Clothing ?rkers of America, Joseph Schlossberg, chairman of the National Committee for Labor Palestine, as well as other top leaders, denounced the U.S. shift and voiced the hope ##t the U.N. General Assembly special Palestine session, opening Friday, would reaffirm the original partition resolution setting up separate Jewish and Arab states Palestine.
Rep. Emanuel Celler denounced the present U.S. position on Palestine and debarred that the Jewish people had been betrayed by false promises. Dr. Abba Hillel ?ver, who was scheduled to speak, was unable to attend because his plane from Washington was grounded by inclement weather. A message from David Ben Gurion was read.
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