Mrs. Golda Myerson, Israel Minister of Labor and Reconstruction, arrived here today from Jerusalem to help launch the United Jewish Appeal drive for 1956. She will be the principal speaker at the national UJA conference, which will meet this Friday and Saturday evening in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Mrs. Myerson will address more than 1,200 delegates representing campaign affiliates of the UJA in all parts of the country. Others who will be heard during the two-day conference are Herman Wouk, Pulitzer prize winning novelist; William Rosenwald, general chairman of the UJA; Edward M.M. Warburg, president of the Appeal, and Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, UJA executive vice-chairman.
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