8—Friday, April 5, 1968

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Writer Claims NHL President, Flyers
Trying to Silence B igotry Charges

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadel-
phia sports writer has charged that
National Hockey League president
Clarence Campbell and Philadel-
phia Flyers chairman of the board
Ed Snider have attempted to hush
up charges of anti-Semitism made
by Larry Zeidel, the league's only
Jewish player.
Ed Conrad, writing in "The
Hockey News," a Montreal weekly,
said "Excellent sources report that
Campbell did not want to hear
a word about the anti-Semitic re-

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marks at the hearing." The hear-
ing was convened when Campbell
fined Zeidel and Boston's Eddie
Shack $300 plus temporary sus-
pensions for a stick duel which
Zeidel charged was precipitated by
the slurs.
Zeidel charged three Boston
players — Don Awrey, Tom Wil-
liams and Gerry Cheevers — with
the remarks, referring to gas
ovens.
Conrad said "Clarence Campbell
must've been wearing ear muffs
and Ed Snider rose-colored glasses.
"That could be the only reason
the National Hockey League
president and the Flyers' chair-
man of the board, respectively,
have passed off lightly the anti-
Semitic remarks reportedly di-
rected at the Flyers Larry Zeidel
by certain members of the Bos-
ton Bruins.
"Campbell and Snider both an-
nounced that the incident of the
alleged racial slurs aimed at Zei-
del . . . were blown way out of
proportion in the press.
"They must've silenced Larry,
too, because if you ask him about
it now, he'll tell you he has no
comment. 'Sorry,' he'll say, 'I'd
rather not talk about it any more.' "
Following the March 7 game
in Toronto, where the Flyers were
playing awaiting completion of re-
pairs to their own stadium, Zeidel
said, "Nearly the whole Boston
team tried to intimidate me about
being the only Jewish player in the
league. They said they wouldn't
be satisfied until they put me in
a gas chamber."
Conrad said "If they were trying
to intimidate the Flyers' 39-year-old
defenseman, the Bruins were using
the right strategy. The reference
to the gas chamber is as serious
a personal affront as anyone could
stand.
"That's because Zeidel's grand-
parents were among the mil-
lions of Jews exterminated by
the Nazis during World War II
. . . via the gas chamber."
"Zeidel says he tried to re-
strain himself when the Bruins
started spitting their verbal
poison," Conrad said.
" 'When I didn't retaliate im-
mediately, they figured I wasn't
the same fellow of a few years
ago (when he led the American
Hockey League in penalties),' said
Larry. 'So they thought they could
push me around.'
" 'The first thing you learn in
hockey is that you don't let any-
one push you around,' he conclud-
ed, 'Let them do that and you
might as well pack up and leave
because they'll run you right off
the ice.' "
Snider, who is Jewish, said that
it was not anti-Semitic remarks,
but "rough, hard hitting hockey
play" that set off the fight. "It
appears that in the heat of battle
during an important game Larry
might have struck the first blow,"
said Snider. "Shack had nothing
to do with any vicious name-call-
ing and the reports of competitive
baiting were blown far out of
proportion."
Although Campbell agreed, the
Canadian Jewish Congress called
for a full investigation, and two
fans sent telegrams to Campbell
advising him that they had heard
the anti-Semitic remarks at the
game.

U.S. Youth Groups Rap Anti-Semitic Revival in Poland

NEW YORK (JTA) — Repre-
sentatives of a number of Amer-
ican youth organizations joined
Tuesday in a protest against the
Polish government's repression of
the student demand for freedom of
speech and expression in Polish
universities and in condemnation
of the regime's resort to anti-
Semitism as a means of discredit-
ing the student demonstrators.
The statement endorsed by these
groups was drawn up and circu-
lated by the Young People's So-
cialist League, the youth group
of the Socialist Party which Nor-
man Thomas headed until his re-
cent retirement, and the Jewish
Socialist Youth, the youth section
of the Jewish Labor Bund.
The statement expressed objec-
tion to the "Polish government's
decision to employ one of the most
vicious weapons of reactionary
governments—state-sponsored anti-
Semitism." It said that "through-
out history, both liberal and radi-
cal democrats have regarded of-
ficial anti-Semitism as one of the
most reactionary practices. We
see no reason to suspend that
judgment now, especially in a
country which is the graveyard of
three million Jews."
The signatories to the statement
include Campus Americans for

Democratic Action, the College
Young Democratic Clubs of Amer-
ica, the United States Youth Coun-
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