The fifth annual conference of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, which opened here last night, this afternoon elected Paul Warburg as treasurer, Solomon Lowenstein as secretary, Herman Wineman, former secretary, as a vice-president, and re-elected all other officers.
B.C. Vladeck, chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee, declared last night that the main problem in welfare work was whether the class interests of the supporters or the national interests of the constituents would prevail. He called the Council the most powerful group in the Jewish world today, saying “the group that holds the purse strings controls the policies.” He derided the small amount given for overseas work by American Jewry.
E.J. Schanfarber, of Columbus, speaking last night, and Louis E. Kirstein, of Boston, this morning, stressed the need for councils to represent all phases of Jewish life. Dr. David Lvovitch, addressing a separate dinner of the ORT, said that workers and peasants in Poland and Rumania were friendly to the Jew.
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