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—4. DENOUNCED BY AMERICAN LABOUR CONVENTION WORLD’S “MOST MENACING INSTITUTION” (Rec. October 13. 5.5 p.m.) New York. October 12. After a heated debate the Federation of Labour Convention at Detroit to-day rejected two resolutions urging a modification of the United States immigration laws to permit of the admission of aliens seeking refuge from “political and religious persecution.” The Resolutions Committee reported that resolutions were passed advocating diplomatic recognition of Russia by’ the United States Government, expressing “full agreement with President Coolidge in holding that American . principles must not be bartered,” disapproving the proposed Labour Commission of Investigation to Russia, and extending “profound sympathy with the masses of the people of Russia in their moral, political, and spiritual enslavement.” The committee stated: “We regard the Soviet regime as the most unscrupulous, most anti-social, and ino'st menacing institution of the whole world today.”
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 16, 14 October 1926, Page 11
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