Recognizing that poll tax legislation deprives some ten million citizens of the United States of their Constitutional right to vote, the Executive Board of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods calls upon the Senate of the United States to pass without delay at this session of the Congress, Bill S.708, which was adopted by the House of Representatives on May 25, by a vote of 265 to 110. To withhold the franchise from citizens of this country is a negation of the basic principles upon which American democracy is founded and a denial of the tenets inherent in the Atlantic charter.
We call upon our unites and members to write to their Senators urging them to vote for cloture to limit the debate on this bill, and to vote for its passage.
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