Extraordinary demands on the United Jewish Appeal for sharply increased financial assistance with which to meet spiralling Jewish needs in Israel and other parts of the world have led to the launching by the U.J.A. of an emergency nationwide mobilization of cash designed to raise a minimum of $10,000,000 during the month of May, it was announced today by Edward M.M. Warburg, U.J.A. general chairman.
Mr. Warburg announced at the same time that the emergency cash drive would culminate at an extraordinary two-day National Conference in Chicago on May 24 and 25 at which leaders of community campaigns in all parts of the country will present checks representing proceeds of their one-month mobilization of funds.
The U.J.A. general chairman, in announcing the opening of the cash mobilization, termed it “a crisis measure.” He disclosed that severe food, housing and settlement needs in Israel, a sharp increase in warm-weather Jewish migration from Moslem lands and unrelieved Jewish welfare requirements in Eastern Europe have brought calls on U.J.A. resources that must be met in the shortest possible time.
More than 300 delegates attending the first conference of the National Labor Council of the U.J.A. yesterday voted approval of a series of resolutions calling for nationwide trade union support of the U.J.A. campaign. The delegates pledged to make a special effort to help the U.J.A. one-month drive to raise $10,000,000 in cash to help Israel cope with its serious shortages of housing, food and other essentials.
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