Emigration is largely at a standstill owing to the many restrictions existing, it was reported to the meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Conference for the Protection of Migrants, which is now in session here, and an enquiry is to be undertaken as to the possibilities of new avenues for emigration. Mr. S. Cohen, of the London Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women, who is Vice-President of the Conference, is presiding over the meeting. M. Eduard Oungre, of the Jewish Colonisation Association (Ica), is attending the meeting.
The position of migrants returning to their country of origin without resources is also being discussed and is receiving much prominence, because of the deportation or repatriation owing to the economic crisis of many people from Canada, the United States and South America, by which many Jewish people will be affected.
The question of obtaining maintenance allowances for women and children abandoned or left in the country of origin by the husband or father was the subject of a report presented by the Conference to the Child Welfare Section of the League of Nations now in session here, to which the Conference has been invited to send a representative. This is an important question for the Jewish Communities, and statistics concerning it are being gathered from Eastern Europe and Northern and Southern America.
Important decisions with regard to the future of the Conference have been adopted at the meeting and a re-organisation of the work and of the financial position has been undertaken, and closer contact has been made with the International Labour Office and with the League of Nations. Madame Helene Hoffmann has been appointed General Secretary.
Other important questions are being studied and prepared for the next meeting of the Conference, which will be opened on September 2nd.
Mr. S. Cohen will also attend the tenth session of the Advisory Committee of the League of Nations on the Traffic in Women and Children, which opens here to-morrow, and at its close he will proceed to Strasbourg to attend the Congress of the International Abolitionist Confederation, which commences on the 30th. inst.
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