A. J. Freiman, for many years president of the Canadian Zionist Organization, was re-elected last night at the closing session of the twenty-fourth annual Zionist convention held at the Royal York Hotel here.
The convention adopted resolutions reaffirming its conviction of the principle of organized Jewish labor for Jewish enterprise; determined to petition the Jewish Agency for a larger allotment of chalutzim pioneer certificates; protested against the Nazi regime; voted support for the Habonim organization; voted to establish agricultural training centers for Canadian Jewish youth; expressed confidence in the Canadian Jewish Congress; went on record as opposing a legislative council in Palestine, and commended the World Zionist Executive for bringing peace between Zionist factions.
A. M. Shinbane, Mr. Levine and H. S. Rosenberg were elected vice-presidents of the Canadian Zionists, while Joseph Fineberg was elected treasurer.
In answer to a question put to him before the closing of the convention, Mr. Freiman declared that Vladimir Jabotinsky, Revisionist leader, was “not a Zionist.”
“I do not recognize Jabotinsky as a Zionist,” Mr. Freiman said, “since he broke the discipline of the World Zionist Congress.”
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