Officials of HIAS announced today that they had made arrangements with the International Refugee Organization for Orthodox Jews–due to arrive in the United States on the Sabbath–to sign their loyalty oaths at sea. Prior to this arrangement, Jews arriving here on holidays or on the Sabbath, who refused to write their names, were faced with the threat of being held at Ellis Island until they signed the oaths.
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