CLOSE-UP WE CAN MAKE YOU A FLORAL ARRANGEMENT FOR ANY ROOM IN YOUR HOME casual living modes contemporary • furniture • lighting • wall decor • gifts • interiors Northwestern Nwy. • Franklin Shopping Center 357-2030 COMMERCIAL • RESIDENTIAL • HOME • OFFICE YOUR BODY SHOPPE INC. YOUR HAIR REPLACEMENT HEADQUARTERS "Serving the Finest Clientele for over 12 Years„ ." Contemporary accessories for over 34 years Your Body Shoppe offers you a choice of several excellent NATURAL hair replacement programs. A FREE personal consultation will help select the options best suited to meet your needs. • Private Studio • Hair Fusion • Hair Pieces • Tanning 2328 Livernois • Suite D Troy MI CALL 528-2506 Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results Place Your. Ad Today. Call 354-6060 544•1711 22961 Woodward, Ferndale, MI Southfield, West Bloomfield, Birmingham, and the New Sport Connection* nn al -75% 0 nt Sa e • - additional cost for size 13 and up. Not all itenis av‘ailable 'at all stores. SUPER SPECIALS Brass Boot Leather Espadrilles S25 Value, Now Nunn Bush Huaraches '30 Value, Now S60 Value, Now 5 100 15 5 100 Values to s105,Now $ $ 25 Rockport Super-Sport Loafer $3988 '78 Value, Now Bally Taurus Dress Cole•Haan Suede Camp Mocs. $2988 Shoes $6988 $10 Leather Summer Dress Shoes Southfield The Onginar In The New Orleans Mall 10 Mile & Greenfield Mon -Thurs & Sal 10-7 Fri. 10.9 Sun. 12-5 • 559-7818 Bostonian Decksiders $5 Value, Now '175 Value, Now Johnston & Murphy Wing Fila Original Gym Shoes $3988 Tip and Tassel $6988 Value, Now $155 Value, Now MV.,411.AAIN Southfield SPORT CONNECTION • New Orleans Mall 10 Mule & Greenfield Mon.-Thurs. & Sat. 10-7 Fri 10-9 Sun. 12-5 • 559-7150 West Bloomfield On The Boardwalk Orchard Lake Road South of Maple Mon.-Wed. & Sat. 10-7 Thurs. & Fri. 10-9 Sun. 12-5 • 626-3362 Downtown Birmingham 111 S. Woodward South of Maple Mon -Wed. 8 Sat. 10.6 Thurs & Fri. 10-9 Sun. 12.5 • 647-0550 Flint Oak Brook Square 3192 Linden Road Across from Genessee Valley Mall Mon., Fri. 6 Sat. 10.9 Tues.-Thurs. 10-7 Sun. 12-5 • 733-8730 A Solid Record Continued from preceding page then AFL president, the JLC met with representatives of the State Department to discuss the plight of the Euro- pean Jews. This resulted in the U.S. administration issu- ing a number of emergency visas to Jewish, labor and democratic leaders being persecuted in Nazi Germany. Green, in 1942, also ad- dressed the JLC in Canada in a speech later printed under the compelling title, "The Common Enemy of Mankind?' The passionately worded speech is replete with phrases that conjure the vision of a speaker veritably shaking with drama and fervor. "Ibr- ror and pain are their daily bread," Green said of Hitler's prey. "From thousands of miles away, their suffering reaches us here and cries out to us. Yes, we cannot say it's too bad that these countless men, women and children are suffering but it is none of our business. For it is definitely the business of every pro- gressive person, of every de- cent American man and woman!' Truth be told, however, it was not the plight of the persecuted Jews that really sparked the decision by the AFL and CIO to publicly fight the Nazis. The real impetus for the unions' actions was Hitler's own antagonism toward labor. His first purges were against trade unionists. "The (trade union) perspec- tive on Nazis was that the Nazis were anti-labor," Waltzer said. "The perspec- tive was not that the Nazis were waging a war against the Jews, but that the Nazis were against labor and all other minorities!' In response, the AFL ex- ecutive council began by call- ing for a boycott of all Ger- man manufactured goods as early as 1933. Labor also held "Stop Hitler Now" rallies in cities throughout the country, in- cluding a famous gathering in Madison Square Garden in April 1943. Yet the AFL, Waltzer said, "was strongly committed to maintaining the structure of the immigration laws as they existed at that time. And that structure was restrictionist!" By 1943, the AFL and CIO became more flexible in their attitude toward immigration. In a rare act of unanimity, the two groups made several moves — in addition to the ef- fort with the JLC — to help the European Jews. They sup- ported a congressional resolu- tion on refugees and gave backing to free emigration for Jew's to Palestine. lb this day, the AFL-CIO continues to speak out against Nazis. Last year, for example, the trade federa- tion's executive council adopted a resolution calling _ on the United Nations to open the Allied War Crimes Com- mission files which contain the names of thousands of suspected Nazis. In the resolution, the AFL- CIO said, "Continued opposi- tion to this important source of information acts as an im- pediment to the punishment of those guilty of crimes against humanity!' AFL-CIO President Kirkland has called for labor's financial support of the National Holocaust Memorial Council museum in Washington and the labor federation's executive council condemned, in 1985, the alleged American role in gaining freedom for Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele. "The (trade union) perspective on Nazis was that the Nazis were anti- labor. The perspective was not that the Nazis were waging a war against the Jews, but that the Nazis were against labor and all other minorities." Last year, the American Federation of Teachers helped sponsor a two-week visit of three West German teachers who came to the United States to study Holocaust education programs. The labor federation also condemns acts of anti- Semitism. In January, the Rhode Island AFL-CIO unanimously adopted a resolution condemning in- cidents in which swastikas were painted on two synagogues in Providence and two Jewish-owned pharmacies. In a letter to the JLC, Rhode Island AFL-CIO Presi- dent Edward McElroy asked that Jewish leaders be sent a copy of the resolution. "I feel," he wrote, "that it is important that they receive this statement of our support for the investigation and pro- secution of those responsible for these incidents, and our support for efforts to educate the community concerning the dangers and results of such intolerance." — Elizabeth Kaplan