Histadrut, UJA Conclude Fund-raising Pact for Six-month Period

An agreement whereby the Israel Histadrut Campaign will avoid scheduling “public, fund-raising dinners and events in Jewish communities during the period December 15, 1970 to June 1,1971” so as not to conflict with the 1971 United Jewish Appeal Emergency Fund Campaign has been announced by Jack Weller and Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson, co-chairmen of the Committee on Control and Authorization of Campaigns of the Jewish Agency. The Committee on Control is composed of the leading officers of the United Jewish Appeal, the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds and the Jewish Agency for Israel. The agreement on the Histadrut Campaign, announced here Friday, was approved by the Board of Directors of the Histadrut Campaign (National Committee for Labor Israel), of which Leon H. Keyserline is president. The announcement stated that the agreement on the Histadrut Campaign in the U.S. is in accord with a previous understanding reached in Jerusalem on Nov. 10 between leading officers of the UJA, the Jewish Agency, the Histadrut in Israel, the National Committee for Labor Israel and the Israel government. Although calling for the continuation as heretofore “of the traditional activities of the Histadrut Campaign, including organizational and educational functions,” the Histadrut Campaign will also recommend to the Labor Zionist Movement that they join with the Labor Council for the UJA, in the organization of a “Histadrut-Labor Zionist Division for the UJA Campaign 1971.”

The Histadrut Campaign pledged that it will “place at the disposal of such a division its facilities everywhere and to make a concerted effort to mobilize maximum support of the UJA Campaign among those active in the Histadrut Movement.” It was further agreed that “all contributions received from the special effort of the Histadrut–Labor Zionist Division will be payable to the respective Welfare Fund–UJA drives” and that in the New York area “the Histadrut Campaign will cooperate in every way to determine an early date for the launching of the drive of the Histadrut-Labor Zionist Division to involve the Labor Zionist leadership in New York.” In those few instances where public Histadrut fund-raising affairs have already been scheduled, it was agreed that “the Jewish Agency and the UJA, will confer with the communities involved to obtain necessary clearance for these dates or to arrange alter native dates.” The agreement gives the Histadrut Campaign the right to hold “public fund raising dinners in honor of trade union leaders that involve primarily attendance and gifts that will not compete with the UJA.”