A mass meeting to welcome Emil Vandervelde on his arrival was held here yesterday.
In his address Mr. Vandervelde greeted the Jewish labor federation of Palestine on behalf of the Amsterdam International and expressed the wish that they become a bridge between the western and eastern workers, but not in the manner of the Bolsheviks who exploit the awakening nations. The Belgian socialist leader praised the Jewish workers for their policy of friendship toward the Arab workers who are thus helped in their process of emancipation.
The Jewish workers in Palestine were the first in the entire world to organize agricultural colonization on a socialist basis, he declared. There is no contradiction between Zionism and European democrary, he added.
The fourth annual convention of the Sigma Alpha Rho, Jewish fraternity, was held at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, in Philadelphia, the city where the fraternity was formed. Benjamin Horwitz was elected to head the fraternity for the coming year.
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