Twenty-five divisions of New York’s leading industries, each headed by a leader in that field, have been organized to form the basis for the $1,200,000 campaign for German Jewish relief that will be launched i.1 New York City on Sunday, it was announced yesterday by Michael Schapp, president of Bloomingdale’s, chairman of the Trades Council of the United Jewish Appeal.
The first of a series of functions sponsored by the Trades Council will be held today. The advertisers and publishers group, under the chairmanship of Ira Hirschmann, advertising manager of Lord & Taylor, will hold a luncheon meeting at the Hotel Astor. Bishop Francis J. McConnell and Nathan Straus Jr., State Director of the NRA, will be the principal speakers.
A luncheon will be given at the same time at the Hotel Commodore by the Real Estate Division of the Trades Council. Samuel Levy, Borough President of Manhattan, has accepted the chairmanship of the division. He and Joseph C. Hyman, honorary secretary of the United Jewish Appeal, will be the principal speakers at the function.
Congregations of New York City will be organized on behalf of the campaign tomorrow, when a luncheon will be hold at the Hotel Commodore with the participation of presidents and rabbis of all principal synagogues and temples in Manhattan. Professor Douglas Booth will be the speaker.
An executive board has been formed representing various trades, professions and industries that are represented on the Trades Council of the drive. The board consists of John Block, S. J. Bloomingdale, ###eo Del Monte, William P. Goldman, Milton J. Greenebaum, Ira A. Hirschmann, Harold Jacobl, Charles D. Jaffe, Ernest Katz, Abraham Krasne, Abraham Liebovitz, G. A. Lowenstein, Sidney Reisman, Carl Rosenberger and Isidore Scharfman.
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