President Eisenhower sent greeting today to Adolph Held national chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Similar greetings were received today by the Jewish Labor Committee for Mr. Held from Adlai Stevenson, Austria Vice Chancellor Dr. Adolph Schaerf, former British Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison and many other men of national and international-national convention of the JLC, which opens here tomorrow.
The message from President Eisenhower read; “On your seventieth birthday, I join with your many friends in congratulations. It is fitting that the celebration of this event will be held in conjunction with the 20th anniversary convention of the Jewish Labor Committee to whose good work you have contributed much. You have best wishes for good health and happiness in the years ahead.”
The question of the fate of 2,000,000 Jews behind the Iron Curtain, as well as the right of Jews in the Soviet Union to freely communicate with their relatives outside in the free world and to visit them if the choose, and the end of slave labor camps, will be among the demands made by the Jewish Labor committee, representing more than 500,000 Jewish workers in the AFL and CIO, at the opening session of its conference. The demands that the Soviet Union show good faith on theses questions and that they be placed high on the agenda by the United States representatives at the projected Big Four parley will be outlined by Jacob Pat, executive secretary of the Jewish Labor Committee.
“For more than 20 years the Jewish Labor Committee has been demanding to know the fate of Jews in the Soviet Union, and has been concerned with their plight,” Mr. Pat said today. “We reiterate that demand now as a symbol of sincerity on the part of the Soviet Union that: 1. There be free communication between citizens of the U.S.S.R. and visit their families in the free world; and 3. That hey restore the right of publishing Yiddish language newspapers, books re-establishing Yiddish schools, theatres, etc., so that the Jewish people within its borders can continue to have free, unfettered Jewish cultural pursuits.”
Mr. Pat revealed that “the American Jewish community is changing radically and that as a result, the attitudes of these communities toward the Jewish labor movement has been one of recognition for the needs of labor in meeting current community problems. One hundred and fifty Jewish communities has up to date recognized that contributions of the Jewish Labor Committee-it has a place in the budgets of those communities.
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