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This fond consists mainly of working documents such as correspondence and financial papers, predominantly from the late 1940s to the 1970s. The documents deals with the advocacy activities of the Jewish Labour Committee such as bringing refugees over to Montreal and later raising money to aid Pakistani refugees. Highlights of the Fonds include correspondence between David Lewis, then secretary of the CCF, his father Moishe Lewis, and Kalman Kaplansky, both labour leaders in Montreal’s Workmen’s Circle and in the Jewish Labour Committee..