180 delegates representing 125 branches throughout the country are attending the Second Conference of the Polish Poale Agudath Israel Organisation, the Labour wing of the Agudath Israel, which was opened here to-day.
The hall is decorated with the Decalogue, a design of the hammer and anvil, and quotations from the Torah, and the proceedings commenced with the delegates singing the Poale Agudist hymn, which in translation goes as follows:
Away with grief, despair and sorrow, We are the children of the morrow. Though to-day be overcast, We know the sun will shine at last.
We trust in God and in His ways, Our mouths for ever chant His praise, And as we work with hammer and saw, We praise God’s Name and study His Law.
We laugh at all the free-thought preachers, We spurn the many new-law teachers; Our ancient Torah for evermore, Is ours to practise and adore.
Blessings fall upon that hand, That labours for people and for land; And bless’d be the bread each man and his neighbour Earns in the sweat of his brow by his labour.
We know no sorrow and we know no ill, We shall fight to the very death, until Master and slave have ceased to be, And justice and right rule land and sea.
Our aim is to strive towards the day, When Mercy and Justice all men shall sway, And our way is the way that our Teachers trod, The way of our Torah, that leads to God. The Poale Agudath Israel is now publishing a weekly organ “Der Yiddishe Arbeiter” (The Jewish Worker).
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