“Die Folkszeitung,” organ of the “Bund,” Jewish Socialist Party of Poland, published yesterday the correspondence which took place between Heinrich Ehrlich, Bundist leader, and Friedrich Adler, secretary of the Second Socialist International, immediately after the Jewish Agency conference at Zurich last summer.
Ehrlich in the correspondence touches upon the active sympathy for Zionism shown by Emil Vandervelde, Belgian Socialist leader, and also upon the congratulations sent by Leon Blum, French Socialist, to the Jewish Agency, in which Blum expressed the sympathy of the Socialist International for the Palestine work. In his letter to Adler, Ehrlich had said:
“I believe we are entitled to be dissatisfied in the face of these acts by the representatives of the International, who, not being acquainted with Jewish life, placed barriers in the path of the Jewish workers and their Socialist struggles through their pro-Zionist activities.”
In his reply, Adler stated that the International has no official attitude towards the Palestine question and that nobody is therefore entitled to speak in the name of the International. Adler also emphasizes the unfavorable position of the Jewish proletariat caused by the fact that the Bund does not belong to the Socialist International, and suggests that the Bund join it. A conference of the Bund will soon be held to consider especially the question of joining. The “Folkszeitung” is now publishing articles for and against joining the International.
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