An appeal to the Socialist International for its aid in the fight for free Jewish immigration into Palestine was expressed in a resolution adopted here at a joint meeting held at the meeting local of the All-Brazilian Lobor Party, on January 12.
The meeting was attended by the executive board of the Labor Party, the central committee of the Peale Zion-Hitachduth and the League for Labor Palestine.The resolution adopted at the meeting expresses recognition of the fight being waged by Jewish labor for its national and social freedom as part of the struggle of the international proletariat for labor supremacy and the brotherhood of nations, and continues:
“At the present moment, when fascism strives for the destruction of all the achievements of the labor class, it is necessary that the fight against Fascism be waged energetically by the proletarian parties of all the nations.
“On the basis of these facts, the Lobor Party of Brazil expresses complete solidarity with its Jewish comrades in their fight against Fascism among Jews and for the vietory of labor in Palestine.
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“The Labor Party, as the federation of all the Socialist parties of Brazil, including the local Poale Zion-Hitachduth, transmits its appeal for support in the struggle of the Jewish laboring class for free Jewish immigration in Palestine, which is an absolute essential in the econonmic and cultural development of all the population of Palestine.”
The resolution was sent to the executive of the Socialist International, to the World Alliance of the Poale Zion-Hitachduth and to the Jewish Labor Federation of Palestine.
M. Silva-Reili, president of the Lobor Party, was chariman of the meeting. Jacob Razili, representing the Labor Federation of Palestine, reported upon the activities of that group and upon the position of world Jewry. Others at the meeting were Luiz de Paulo Lopes, representing the Iron Workers Alliance, Augusto Osevedo Santos, representing the Sailors Alliance; L. Levinson, of the Poale Zion-Hitachduth, and Aaron Bergman, Poale Zion representative in the Labor Party. executive.
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