(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
Over 200 delegates were present at the Relief Conference of Lancashire Jewry convened by the Federation of Jewish Relief Organizations of Great Britain to discuss measures of relief for the suffering Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, which was opened in Manchester today by Samuel Finburgh.
The Conference adopted the following resolution:
“This Conference having heard with deep regret of the continued distress of our brethren in Eastern Europe, pledges itself to support the Federation of Jewish Relief Organizations in Great Britain in its endeavors to raise funds to enable that body to continue its beneficent work. It is resolved, therefore, that an Area Council be formed, to comprise representatives from each Jewish community in Lancashire, the objects of the Council to be: the maintenance of propaganda in the Area; the helping of any community in the Area which requires assistance in the work of collection and organization, and the forming of a direct link between the Federation and the constituent bodies in the Council.”
The Conference also decided to form a Manchester Relief Committee for the purpose of supervising the work of regular collections in the city, so that the Relief Federation may be enabled to meet its obligations regularly; a Young Section of the Federation of Jewish Relief Organizations, and a Manchester Jewish Ladies’ Relief Committee.
Chief Rabbi Dr. J. H. Hertz, the President of the Relief Federation, and Rabbi M. A. Eisenstadt, the former Chief Rabbi of Petrograd, described the present-day position of the Jews in the countries of Eastern Europe.
Six men were arrested Wednesday morning following an attack upon two “left wing” garment workers, picketing in front of No. 361 West 36th Street, New York City.
The six, said to be supporters of the “Right”, are charged with felonious assault. They described themselves as Isaac Robin, thirty, of No. 540 West 122nd Street; Harry Morris, twenty-seven, of No. 603 East 103rd Street; Samuel Schechter, thirty-five, of No. 1517 Washington Avenue, the Bronx; Harry Liss, thirty-three, of No. 152 Henry Street; Samuel Gold, twenty-eight, of No. 108 Ludlow Street, and Morris Golombeck, thirty-one, of No. 620 Howard Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. The pickets assaulted were Authony Burlo, twenty-two, of No. 312 West 112th Street, and Angelo Vacca, twenty-eight, of No. 66 Mulberry Street.
Burlo was taken to the New York Hospital. An hour later Vacca was attacked at the same spot.
The deposed Joint Board of Cloakmakers called a strike in a shop on West Thirty-sixth Street and the right wing adherents of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union escorted the employes to the shop daily, as the International did not countenance the strike.
The first outbreak of violence in the dispute between the left wing and right wing in the fur workers unions occurred Wednesday night when a man was stabbed in Twenty-eighth Street near Broadway during the rush hour. A riot call brought sixty probationary patrolmen and they spent an hour restoring order and dispersing the crowd. Three arrests were made.
Samuel Mintz of 175 Division Avenue, Brooklyn; Harry Ryder of 1349 Grand Avenue, the Bronx, and Max Fischel, of 324 Hart Street, Brooklyn, were arrested.
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