635 Attend Annual Parley of Chicago Congress

Six hundred and thirty-five delegates representing 205 organizations met Sunday in an all-day conference at Palmer House and adopted a program of activities designed to meet problems of an economic, cultural and communal nature arising out of conditions prevalent throughout the country and local to Chicago.

The occasion was the annual conference of the Chicago branch of the American Jewish Congress.

An immediate campaign is to be launched to increase the affiliation of local organizations to the Chicago branch, it was decided by the conference.

A membership campaign will be launched immediately and sermons describing the work of the American Jewish Congress and urging identification with its program will be preached in the leading synagogues of the city during the Passover holidays.

Resolutions adopted by the conference call for the establishment of a commission on civil rights; a department of law; a committee for the gathering of information regarding discrimination against Jews in industry and commerce.

Greetings on the occasion of his seventieth birthday were extended by the conference to Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky as “a leader in the movement which gave impetus to the Congress ideal.”

The session was addressed by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Mrs. Pearl Franklin, chairman of the conference committee; Rabbi S. Felix Mendelsohn; Rabbi M. B. Sacks, and Sigmund W. David, president of the local unit.

A new administration was elected by the conference and includes the following: Sigmund W. David, president; H. P. Grossman, chairman of the administrative committee; Leo H. Lowitz, Mrs. Pearl Franklin, Bernard Horwich, vice presidents; Nathan Raymer, treasurer; Rabbi S. M. Blumenfield, secretary.