The formation of a Society for Jewish Colonization in Soviet Russia was decided upon at a conference held Sunday at the Manhattan Lyceum, at which a number of representatives from one hundred and ten branches of Workmen’s Circles, forty-five Landsmanschaften and other organizations participated.
Mr. Joseph Schlossberg, secretary of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, was chairman of the Conference.
The Society, according to a resolution adopted by the Conference, will be incorporated in one million dollars and will issue shares at ten dollars each. The funds collected will be used to promote Jewish colonization in Soviet Russia, not in the form of charity, but as credit which will be secured by a first mortgage on the property of the settler, excluding the land, which is nationalized in Soviet Russia.
The question of whether aid should be in the form of donations or loans caused much discussion and the latter plan was decided upon.
An Executive Board of thirty-five was elected. Joseph Schlossberg. David Pinshi, Ab. Miller, S. Epstein, A. S. Sachs. L. Kobrira, Jacob Levin, M. Katz, J. M. Budish, M. Olgin, E. Wattenburg, are among the members of the Executive. Fifteen alternates were chosen. The Executive was authorized to communicate with other organizations who might be willing to cooperate.
Although Chairman Schlossberg repeatedly emphasized the fact that the organization will be impartial, the Conference decided to cooperate only with the Communists and with no other Jewish legalized organizations.
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