About 1,000 delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada are expected to attend the tenth anniversary convention of the National Labor Committee for Jewish Workers and Pioneers in Palestine, which opens Friday night at the Hotel Pennsylvania, it was announced yesterday.
The delegates will represent various locals of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, International Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union, United Hebrew Trades and other organizations, fraternal and labor. The convention will continue Saturday and Sunday.
The National Labor Committee for Palestine comprises 50,000 individual members and about 1,000 affiliated organizations with a combined membership of more than 250,000. Since its formation in 1923, the organization has raised more than $1,000,000 in this country to provide modern tools and machinery for Jewish agricultural and industrial workers of Palestine and to help maintain Holy Land hospitals, schools, libraries and other welfare, cultural and cooperative institutions.
The work has received endorsements from Professor Albert Einstein, Associate Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor.
Special importance attaches to this year’s convention, it was pointed out, because Palestine has become the chief haven for persecuted Jews of Germany and impoverished Jews of Eastern Europe. The delegates will be called upon to devise means to help the new settlers.
Dr. Zalman Rubashow and ###ruch Zuckerman, members of the Jewish Agency, will attend the convention and give first-hand information on the situation in Palestine.
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