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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Friday, December 15, 1944
tion with the Jewish Agency for the Jews of Europe" and ap- David Sher, NCRAC He ad, Urges New York
Palestine, all necessary financial pealed for extension of the term
and technical assistance to help of the Board.
State to Bar Employment Discrimination
(Continued from Page 1)
meet the problem if transporta- Labor Committee Leaves
NEW YORK — Declaring that groups in the community shall
one fraction of a fraction." He tion, feeding, supplies and recon-
A disturbing moment at the the State has as much right to not be arbitrarily excluded.
waned the delgates against rais- struction be privided. The exe-
"And now we ask that as a
ing their hopes too high, point- cution of this program is an es- Conference developed when it bar employment discrimination on
ing out that "we are going into sential element in the fulfillment was announced that the sub- the basis of race, color or creed matter of the public policy of
committee, to which the matter
it has the right to exercise New York no enterprise in the
. " ... ..3 decade of tensions, strains and of the pledge to create a world had previously been submitted as
police
power to "prohibit child state shall arbitrarily bar from
of
justice,
security
and
freedom."
for
Jews,
perhaps
not
."--11justments
for
consideration.
had
voted
to
labor,
substandard
wages and in- its employment persons of any
The Conference regretted that
1 0L,nly in Europe, but elsewhere."
color, creed or nationality,
"so little had been done" and confirm the recommendation of ordinate hours," David Sher, race,
Resolutions
the Interim Committee to admit president of the National Com- as the state has already in exer-
The Conference adopted a reso- again appealed to the United Na- the Jewish People's Fraternal Or- munity Relations Advisory Coun- cise of police power and for pro-
lution calling for cooperation in tions "to avail themselves of the der. Upon the announcement of cil, testifying at public hearings tection of public welfare prohib-
the establishment, for the period opportunity for the rescue of the recommendation the delegates of the New York State Commis- ited child labor, substandard
of the peace settlement, of a Jews from imminent death in representing the Jewish Labor sion Against Discrimination, urg- wages and inordinate hours."
joint working body designed to ghettos, internment, concentra- Committee, which had previously ed the passage of legislation to
Mr. Sher, pointing out that
achieve, as far as possible, com- tion and labor camps by exchange submitted a memorandum object- set up a State Fair Employment "maximum
productivity is impos-
bined representation of Jewish of these Jews for Germans held ing to the admission of the Fra- Practices Commission.
sible if useful workers are pre-
bodies before international con- by the Allies." It expressed ternal Order on the ground that
Speaking for the NCRAC, cluded from their proper role
ferences, councils and agencies of thanks to the United Nations for its admission would be contrary
which
is composed of six national in the economic system by whol-
easing
the
food
blockade
which
the United Nations. This joint
to a decision reached at the first Jewish agencies and 18th Jewish 1T uneconomic criterion" said
enabled
the
sending
of
food
to
body would seek to cooperate
annual session of the Conference Community Councils throughout that in the interest of maximum
with the Jewish Agency for Pal- internees in German camps, and a year ago and on the ground the
country, Mr. Sher said: "The production so necessary to our
voiced
its
appreciation
of
the
ef-
estine with due consideration of
that the fraternal order was a
future national economy that we
the Agency's special international forts of Sweden, Spain, Portugal Communist organization, left the movement to abate job discrim- cannot "emphasize too much that
by law made its first stand
status. The resolution also auth- and the Vatican to assist the gathering for New York. The ination
the realm of public employ- the problem of economic discrim-
orized the Conference's executive Jews in Hungary and elsewhere. delegates declared that the Jew- in
ment.
The state, as an employer ination must not be viewed as
body to designate, when the need
In another resolution the con- ish Labor Committee will issue must itself be free from the prac- the exclusive concern of the min-
arises, the representatives of the ference urged that "the govern- a statement in New York.
tice of discrimination before it ority groups who are its imme-
Conference to the joint working ments of those liberated countries
can expect its citizens to obey diate victims. It is a community
body and to international confer- whose Jewish citizens are being
its edicts against discrimination. problem that calls for a com-
ences, councils, and agencies of held by the Reich as forced la-
A similar situation became ap- munity solution."
SEGAL
the United Nations.
borers in Germany and other
parent where public contracts
The Palestine resolution adopt- Axis-dominated countries, demand
were involved. There is no dis-
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A usurer makes of Moses a
ed by the Conference greeted through all appropriate channels
crimination on the ground of fool and falsifies his teachings.
President Roosevelt and hailed that these Jewish forced labor- being there has helped to fill up race, creed or color in the collec-
his assurances on the formation ers be accorded the same treat- the rooms and to raise the rates; tion of taxes; it would seem
of a Jewish Commonwealth. "The ment as their non-Jewish citizens so that his mother couldn't find unthinkable that discrimination
Just 2 drops Penetro
American Jewish Conference," it in the same category." It asked a decent place to live in when should be sanctioned in the ex-
Nose Drops In each
nostril help you
said, "urges in accordance with that these governments, as well she was there visiting him. The penditure of public funds. So,
breathe freer almost
the solemn commitment made in as the International Red Cross, kid lost a leg.
too, where a franchise is granted
instantly. Relieve the
the Balfour Declaration and in use every possible effort for the
head cold nasal misery.
Well, my friend, I'm not tell- to a utility which in the tradi-
Only 25c-21/2 times as
the Palestine Mandate, and in the repatriation of these Jewish ing you what to do about going tional phrase becomes affected
much for 60c. Caution:
face of the mounting tragedy of forced laborers, who are in con- to Miami Beach, but that's the with a public interest, the state
Use only as directed.
stant
danger
of
extermination.
Penetro Nose Drops
the Jewish people, that the White
may and has required that in
way I'd feel about it.
It
expressed
appreciation.
o
\
e
Paper be immediately abrogated
the conduct of such a privilege,
, your wife's all ready to
and that unrestricted immigra- efforts of the Red Cross a
go
and
it's
a
pity
to
be
all
tion and land settlement of Jews urged that it take steps to secure
civilian prisoner of war status dressed up and no place to go.
in Palestine be facilitated.
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"We call upon the United Na- for Jews interned in German But then, I guess, it's a pity,
too, that a wounded soldier's wife
tions in their program of recon- camps in occupied territory.
struction to make possible the
The Conference welcomed the has no place to go when she
transfer to and the rehabilitation "organized cooperation establish- comes to visit him in Miami
in Palestine of all who seek to ed between its Rescue Commis- Beach, a pity that the soldier
rebuild their lives there," the sion and some of the functional has lost his leg, a pity that he
resolution continued. "The Amer- agencies in the field of rescue," has had to lose these years of
ican Jewish Conference further and instructed the commission to his youth.
urges that through the responsi- continue its efforts to extend
It seems a matter of deciding
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Mind you, I'm not telling you
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