The Jewish Community Council here today announced the expulsion from its ranks of the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order following a decision to this effect taken at a meeting of the Council’s Assembly. The J.P.F.O. was recently ousted by the Jewish Community Councils in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Fall River, Mass.
The charges on which the J.P.F.O. was expelled from the Community Council here were: 1. The Order fails to qualify according to the Council’s constitution as a Jewish organization “whose primary purpose and function is to further Jewish communal, spiritual, fraternal or religious life, ” since it is under the control of a non-sectarian organization, the International Workers Order, and is an integral part of that organization. 2. The J.P.F.O. was admitted to membership in the Jewish Community Council through misrepresentation of facts regarding its true relationship to the International Workers Order.
The decision to expel the J.P.F.O. was taken by the Council after several months’ careful examination by a special committee of evidence and the holding of a hearing to secure the Order’s side of the case. Only seven votes were cast at the meeting of the Council’s Assembly against the motion to drop the Order.
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