I.l.g.w.u Contributes $250,000 to U.j.a.; Lends $500,000 to Jewish Agency

A check for $250,000 was presented to the United Jewish Appeal yesterday by David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, on behalf of his organization. The contribution exceeds the union’s 1948 gift to the U.J.A. by $100,000. Dubinsky also announced that his union had lent $500,000 to the Jewish Agency.

The $250,000 check was turned over by Dubinsky to Henry Morgenthau, Jr., general chairman of the national U.J.A. campaign, and to Monroe Goldwater, president of the U.J.A. of Greater New York, at a ceremony in the union’s hall. Accepting the contribution, Morgenthau and Goldwater emphasized that it represented the largest individual gift ever made by a union to a philanthropic organization.

Morgenthau described the efforts of the U.J.A.’s agencies to empty completely the Jewish DP camps in Europe this year and to help the DP’s build a new life in Israel and in America. He lauded the union for its aid at this time when cash is urgently needed. Goldwater spoke of the “long honorable history” of the International ladies Garment Workers’ Union and its efforts to aid people of “various faiths and nationalities.”

Emphasizing the determination of the members of his union to give help to people in need, regardless of their race or creed, Dubinsky declared: “This gift has special significance to us because it does not come as a direct contribution from our union’s treasury. It is a part of a free-will collection raised in the New York shops of our industry, money donated by our workers–regardless of racial origin or religious faith–out of the goodness of their hearts, for a great humanitarian cause. From our relief fund we have given just as freely and liberally to other philanthropic and community causes, in our country and abroad.”