The Jewish National Workers Alliance will attempt to raise $750,000 within the next 60 days for rescue work and Jewish development in Palestine, it was announced tonight at a mass meeting of the organization in Carnegie Hall, attended by 4,000 persons. During this same period the Alliance will conduct a drive to sell $1,000,000 worth of war bonds.
Messages were sent to the meeting, which marked the 30th anniversary of the Alliance, by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Wendell Willkie, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Secretary of the Interior Ickes and the Histadruth in Palestine. Earlier in the day, leaders of the organization met to discuss extension of the Alliance’s cultural and fund-raising activities.
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