A $500,000 QUOTA FOR THE COMING YEAR WAS ADOPTED TODAY BY 1,500 DELEGATES AT THE CLOSING SESSION OF THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL LABOR COMMITTEE FOR PALESTINE, HELD AT THE HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA. A DECLARATION WAS ADOPTED CONDEMNING PALESTINE IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, EXPRESSING SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINE JEWS AND HAILING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NINETEEN NEW SETTLEMENTS IN PALESTINE.
ALL OFFICERS WERE RE-ELECTED, INCLUDING JOSEPH SCHLOSSBERG, CHAIRMAN, ISIDORE NAGLER, JOSEPH BRESLAW, ALEXANDER KAHN AND DAVID WERTHEIM, VICE-PRESIDENTS; ISAAC HAMLIN, SECRETARY, AND MAURICE FEINSTONE, CHAIRMAN OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE.
ABRAHAM CAHAN, EDITOR OF THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARD, HEADED THE SPEAKERS’ LIST TODAY. SPEAKERS YESTERDAY INCLUDED MRS. GOLDIE MYERSON, BERL KATZNELSON AND HESIA KUPERMINTZ, ALL OF PALESTINE, AND DAVID PINSKI AND ISIDORE NAGLER, WHO PRESIDED. A MUSICAL FESTIVAL WAS HELD AT CARNEGIE HALL LAST NIGHT. FRIDAY NIGHT MR. HAMLIN REPORTED AT THE OPENING SESSION $1,735,000 HAD BEEN RAISED SINCE 1924, INCLUDING CLOSE TO $300,000 IN THE PAST YEAR.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
