The provisional committee created by the 200 delegates who left the conference of the Jewish Workers’ Committee for Jewish Affairs Sunday night when it voted to adopt a clause in the constitution of the organization forbidding groups adhering to the conference from belonging to “other Jewish organizations with a general Jewish aim,” will meet tomorrow evening at the Trumpeldor House of the Jewish National Workers Alliance to decide upon calling another conference withing the next few weeks. The new conference will attempt to create ” Jewish worker unity for Jewish affairs”. It will take the form of a free federation with its groups bound by no such clause as the one which led to the split in the previous conference.
The groups adhering to the new provisional committee are the Jewish National Workers Alliance, The Poale Zion-Zeire Zion party, the Workers Committe for the World Jewish Congress, the Pioneer Women’s Orbanization, the Poale Zion youth groups and several trade unions.
At the head of the provisional committee created after the delegates left the conference and met in a spontaneous convention are Dr. Chaim Zhitlowski, noted Jewish writer. David Pinsky, I. H. Goldberg of the Cap and Millinery union, David Wertheim, national secretary of the Poale Zion, and Louis Seigel, of the Jewish National Workers Alliance.
SITUATION DEMANDS UNITY
When the conference on Sunday adopted a clause in the constitution of the organization forbidding affiliation with other Jewish groups after a bitter and acrimo-
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