• Liridsay:Rejirirnan.fle'Anti-Poifer Official for Antr:Siiiiiiiiiteniaikii'FIEVY'Ai keil''' to Stop Funds to Bigoted Teachers Group NEW YORK (ETA) — Mayor aspect of ATA's activity is delib- ment of Labor's Office of Federal John V. Lindsay's office reported erate anti-Semitism," and public that the mayor had sent a letter to aid to it is "violative of the letter Contract Compliance. Graubard said the six examples David Billings, III, chairman of and spirit of the federal Constitu- the New York City Council Against tion and laws and regulations un- show that the university has set Poverty, declaring that some of der it." Since November 1967, quotas for instructional staff, stu- dent affairs personnel and admin- Billings' remarks on a radio pro- gram last week were "plainly of- Graubard wrote, the ATA has en- istrative staff. He pointed out that gaged in "anti-Jewish bigotry" on fensive to members of the Jewish numerous occasions, including the the Labor Department's OFCC guidelines "specifically warn that community of the city and indeed following: 'goals may not be rigid and set in- to many of our citizens, including ATA official Tyrone Woods said flexible quotas that must be met.' " me." on Jan. 24, 1969: "As far as I'm The same guidelines state that The Anti-Defamation League of concerned, more power to Hitler. goals are "not intended and should Bnai Brith said Billings' remarks He didn't make enough lampshades on the WNYC program were "vic- out of them. He didn't make not be used to discriminate against ious anti-Semitism" and asked enough belts out of them." Brook- any applicant or employe because of race, color, religion, sex or Lindsay to remove Billings from lyn coordinator Leslie Campbell national origin." his office. wrote in 1970 Black News: "Today ?"' The charge was made in a letter despicable Jew boys are still per- Itrumi's Curtains, Contract Division to the mayor from Milton Sey- petrating their crimes here in the mour, chairman of the ADL New U.S.A. and abroad. The American York Board. Jew today spends a great deal of By coincidence, Billings was his time financing the imperialistic sworn in March 1 by Lindsay war effort by Israel against the to a third one-year term as head Arabs, when he is not ransacking of the city's policy-making agency the pockets of black people." for poverty programs. Graubard asked Richardson to Seymour said Billings had made anti-Semitic remarks on "Action Interview," a program on the city-owned station. Bill- ings issued a statement at the swearing-in ceremony in which he insisted that any remarks he made on the WNYC program were not directed against any group. He had called foes of the bitterly-contested low-in- come housing project hi Forest Hills "an Influential group re- ligiously." Billings said later he was not referring "to the Jewish comatinif ity" and that he did !IDE 'consider ` "take prompt action" to discon- tinue aid to the ATA, which has received three -grants totaling $258,740 since 1969, and to "re- fuse any further grants which it may request." The grants were earmarked for an "educa- tion talent search program" de- signed to aid ghetto dropouts. The ADL earlier charged the State University of New York at Albany with distorting the concept of affirmative action employment in behalf of minorities "into a pro- gram of racial quotas or preferen- tial treatment." In a letter to Louis T. Benezet, president of SUNYA, Graubard gave six documented instances of ,___....: Fitt Ai . . . _ _,. . 12 Friday, March 10, 1972 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS _ . Fall and Winter Suits, Sport Coats, Tuxedos, Dinner Jackets, Storm Coats, etc. $95 to $110 $39 $145 fo $165 $69 '99 CASH 4 CARRY ONLY! 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According to the ADL, Billings commented • that "You just got one group in this so-callecl , democ- racy. This group Is being listened to the moat. Let's ask the question why. We haie to deal with them, and I have no problem because the particular group that's making noise happens to be an influential group religiously. Listen to what The book is Pan Am's World. I'm saying, religiously. They can seeing we give you, before you go, one Europe 72. And it points out some of hook up with other factors in con- 'of the most comprehensive kuidehoolcs trol economically; many of them the reasons Whyour tours offer vou available. Pan Am's New Guide to hold legislative positions of that more for your money than anybody religious origin; many of them Europe. On some of our tours we even else's tours. control the school System of that give you our Insider's Guides that tell religious origin; many of them For example. on our tours when you where to shop, what to eat and control the press and the mass you land at a strange airport you don't . how to tip. media of that religious origin..." feel like a stranger. Because there's a The ADL called Billings' pub- And we're the only airline that has Pan Am. host there to help you out. lished response to the agency's weather insurance. That way if you get charge an "empty, unresponsive answer any your questions. and take some rain, you can also get back some disdaining" which is "totally in- vou on a Pan Am bus to your hotel. adequate and unconvincing." of the money you paid for your vacation. Every hotel on every Pan Am's Pointing out that Billings had If you're thinking abotit 'a European World tour is a first class hotel. Which disclaimed any anti-Semitic intent, vacation, send for Pan Am's World. Seymour said that the Council means you get a room with a private Europe 72. It's free, so you're not losing Against Poverty chairman has bath, even on our economy class tours. And with every out on anything if you do. "not seen fit to actually retract hosted or escorted tour you also get breakfast and often any of his outrageous charges that But considering a European vacation is usually one other meal a day. the Jewish community exercises a once in a lifetime experience, you could be losing a tentacle-like control on the life To help you learn about the countries you'll be out on a lot, if you don't. of our city." "Worse still," said Seymour, "is Billings' transparent denial that he was attacking the Jewish commu- Pan Am's World. Europe 72 nity in the charges he made in the Box 2212 radio interview." The ADL also chrrged that fed- Boston, Mass. 02107 eral funds to the African-Ameri- Please send me a copy of Pan Am's World. Europe 72. can Teachers' Association were being "used to subsidize racial Name Address or religious hatred." It asked the Department of Health, Educa- City State Zip tion and Welfare to "cease the flow of government money" to Pan Am travel agent the Association, baseditere. Seymour Graubard, ADL na- /- -_.-- tional chairman, advised HEW Secretary Elliot L. Richardson in a letter that "whatever else its , L. .. !am .. . ..... • au aralic we was .. Purposes man bgL e Read this tour book as though your European vacation depended on it. ■— ■ - D $225 to $275 255-1440 BUILDERS - AlteMITECTS 1:331PI .