About six hundred delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada are expected to attend the Labor Front Convention for the Nineteenth Zionist Congress, which opens at the Manhattan Opera House tonight. The convention will continue through Sunday.
A feature of tonight’s opening session will be a symposium on the “Achievements of the Zionist Executive from Praha Until Now.” Among the participants will be Chaim Greenberg, Zalmon Rubashov, Boruch Zuckerman and Elisheva Kaplan. The Hebrew Art Ensemble under the direction of Professor Jacob Weinberg will provide a musical program.
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