Fifty thousand Jews are unemployed at the present time in Chicago, and the problem of many of these families will not be solved during this decade, Mr. Samuel A. Goldsmith, Executive Director of the Jewish Charities of Chicago, stated at the 32nd. annual meeting of the organisation.
On any given day in 1931, he said, approximate 20,950 Jewish persons were reached by the Jewish Charities. This represents an increase of 200 per cent. over 1929 and of 100 per cent. over 1930.
The relief programme, he said, represents a struggle on the part of the Jewish community to enable thousands of Jewish families to survive.
We cannot liquidate the situation within the next few years, he declared. So far as many families are concerned, it will not be liquidated for ten years, and for those who are children now, possibly not within a generation.
The Chicago Jewish Charities will have to raise an additional sum of half a million dollars to meet its 1932 budget, it was pointed out, and there is a deficit of 166, 128 dollars on the 1931 budget.
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