Dr. Ehrenpreis Refuses Salonica Chief Rabbinate

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

Dr. Ehrenpreis Chief Rabbi of Stockholm, has declined to accept the call to the Chief Rabbinate of Greece.

The Council of the Jewish Community of Salonica has approached several other rabbis, offering them the post.

Salonica, Feb. 2.–A conference of the trade unions of Greece was held at Athens. The trade unions of Salonica were represented by two Greeks and three Jews, including the Jewish Deputy Sciaky.

The Jewish delegates submitted a motion demanding the modification of the Sunday Closing Law. The delegates representing the Greek refugees from Asia Minor objected to the motion, demanding the strict application of the Sunday Closing Law.

It was decided to take steps to enable the small shopkeepers of Salonica resident in the quarters of the refugees from Asia Minor to be permitted to keep their shops open on Sundays.

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Leaders of the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union, at a mass meeting Thursday night at Order Union, arranged as a counter demonstration to the gathering on the previous night of the International Fur Workers’ Union, challenged the American Federation of Labor and the officers of the International Fur Workers’ Union to oust them and reorganize the four unions of fur workers in New York.

Before nearly 2,500 men and women, speakers urged the necessity of a united front of all Left Wing workers to combat the A. F. of L., policy of sweeping Communists from the unions.

A resolution was adopted calling for the formation of a joint committee of representatives of the deposed Joint Board of Furriers, “for the purpose of defending our unions and maintaining decent standards of work in the shops.”

Other resolutions denounced the officers of the International Fur Workers’ Union and the American Federation of Labor for “carrying on a campaign of slander and malicious provocation” and charged that “the same bureaucratic officials have attempted to frame up the joint board and its members with charges of bribing New York police.”

Another resolution protested against the expulsion last week by the Central Trades and Labor Council of the delegates of the deposed Left Wing and Communist Joint Board of Cloakmakers and of the Joint Board of Furriers and demanded that the delegates be reinstated.

Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board of Furriers, and Louis Hyman, leader of the deposed Cloakmakers’ Joint Board, Samuel Liebowitz, Fannie Warshafsky and Isaac Shapiro were the speakers. Five thousand dollars was pledged by the union members to fight court cases pending against forty men accused of assault during the recent furriers’ strike.