A week-long celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of the Workmen’s Circle, one of the oldest and largest Jewish fraternal organizations in America, was opened here today at Madison Square Garden. Seven hundred delegates from all parts of the country and 18,000 members and friends of the Circle attended the session.
In a special message to the convention, President Truman declared: “Throughout the entire half-century of its existence, the Workmen’s Circle has been an important factor in the lives of Jewish immigrants in this country. It is particularly gratifying to know that you have grown from a small organization to one of more than 70,000 members devoted to the advancement of the Jewish immigrants as workers and citizens of the American community.” The message also said that the organization “has a fine record” for its devotion to the “cause of social progress and the extension of democracy.”
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