U.S. Jewish Groups Urge -Lid
Fair Employment Practices
e gis
tio n
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — En-
The American Jewish Corn
that 28 states now have an anti-
actment at this session of Con- tee submitted a statement
at bias public accommodatio
aws;
gress of an enforceable fair Federal action on fair e
oy- nine states bar
in
employment practices law was ment was necessary, desp
leg- the sa
prate
urged last week by the American islation of many states,
cause houses
fair
Jewish Committee and by the "every study undertak
since emplo
laws.
National Community Relations World War II has fowl hat dis-
Ra i Joa
Prinz,
Advisory Council, in testimony crimination in empl
ent is dent of t
America
before a special House Sub- widespread."
Congress, in his t
ny, em-
- cOmmittee on Labor.
The statement was
ned by phasized th
peals against
Lewis H. Weinstein, chairman Ely M. Aaron, chairma
the bias
olerance can have
of the National Community Rela- AJC's civil rights and civil li
e ect only when they are sup-
ties
committee.
tions Advisory Council, testified
ported by law and public regu-
on behalf of the six national
Aaron's statement pointed out lation."
Jewish organizations and 60 Jew-
ish community relations councils
throughout the United States French Suit Charges Encyclopedia
affiliated with the NCRAC.
The six national organizations Libeled Late Prime Minister Blum
for whom he spoke are American
PARIS, (JTA)—A suit claim- of the encyclopedia helped per-
Jewish Congress, Jewish Labor
Committee, Jewish War Veterans, ing 10 million francs in damages petuate an old canard that Blum
Union of American Hebrew Con- for alleged libeling of the name was not a Frenchman but "a
gregations, Union of Orthodox of the late Leon Blum, twice foreign Je "
Jewish Congregations and the Prime Minister of France. was
a the
er
heard in civil court here
emi ,_' real name" had b
United Synagogue of America.
week.
The
court
announc
Leon e Kerunkelstein.
Pointing- to the "thousands of
will be re
The publishers told the court,
pages of testimony" 'submitted by judgment
Feb.
24.
in defense, that the article on
"hundreds of witnesses" who
suit had
brought by. Blum had been written "by a
have testified at Congressional the The
Blum fa
and by an or- oung a • exper grad-
hearings on fair employment ganization
e,
practice bills since 1944, Wein- tion of L c d "The Associ
dis-
Blum's Friends"
sse
stein declared: ,
•r the
against
t
publishers of he
we
"The question before this
there
ench Encyclope
ere "e essi
Committee would seem to be Larousse
defamatory
The
ages
were
soug
Jews
not why should such legisla-
genera ' in the
that the last e. ion edition
tion be enacted by the present the cla
Congress, but rather what
possible reasons can there be Ser
for not enacting it?"
-a tion
The NCRAC leader pointed out
that the Republican Party plat- for
nn's Sentence
form, as early as 1944, pledged
(Direc
Israeli court against the Nazi
to Th
"establishment by Federal legis-
COLOGNE—Dr. Robert Ser- war criminal who directed the
lation of a Fair Employment
Practice Commission," and that, vatius, defense attorney for mass killing of 6,000,000 Jews
as late as 1960, the Democratic Adolf Eichmann, said Tuesday in Europe.
Servatius disclosed that he
'Party platform contained a sim- he hoped to complete by Thurs-
ilar pledge. He charged wide- day the preparation of an appeal is suffering from yellow jaun-
spread and often subtly disguised against the death sentence dice but said he did not think
job discrimination against Jews. handed down last month by an this would interfere with com-
pletion of • the appeal.
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Irving Pokempner
Chairman of Detroit
Histadrut Executive
Asks .. .
Did
ou
now . . .
co
2.2
at a projection of the population growth during the
ext three years indicates that Israel will gain 250,000
persons?"
Kupat Holim, the HISTADRUT medical system, will
serve 1,600,000 persons in 1962, or more than two-thirds
of Israel's entire population. Kupat Holim must build
750 new clinic rooms, add 900 new hospital beds, and
increase its staff to 11,000, including doctors and nurses
in order to serve this increased population.
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