Five hundred delegates representing about 200 organizations from all parts of the country were to attend a convention sponsored by the Provisional Commission for the Establishment of Jewish Farm Settlements in the United States, held in the Pennsylvania Hotel Saturday night.
The main subject under discussion was to be the project being launched by the organization to settle 200 Jewish families in an industrial agrarian colony near Princeton, N. J. The financing for the project has been assured. The settlers will be recruited from among the ranks of unemployed needle trades workers.
One of the most important points in the agenda of the conference is the creation of a permanent organization which is to take over the functions of the Provisional Commission. Its members are to be announced this week.
Speakers at the convention were to include the following: Dr. M. L. Wilson, director of Subsistence Homestead Division of Department of Interior; Dr. Frank Fritts, general counsel for the Subsistence Homestead Division; Christian P. Norgord, assistant commissioner of Department of Agriculture and Markets of New York State; Benjamin Brown, chairman of the Provisional Commission; Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky, honorary chairman of the Provisional Commission; Dr. Jacob Joffe, of the agricultural college at Rutgers University.
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