The Jewish labor unions of New York were actively represented in the conference to organize a Sa?-Vanzetti sympathy strike called is today. Among the Jewish union were the United Hebrew Trade, with a membership of 200,000 in a affiliated organizations, the Joint Board of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, with 45,000 members; the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, of America, representing 50,000 workers, the Neckwer Makers Union, Upholsterers’ Unite Fur Workers’ Union, and the on Makers’ Union. The Jewish Daily Forward was also represented at the conference.
The Jewish newspapers, with few exceptions, expressed the opinion that a new trial should have been granted Sacco and Vanzetti. The Jews, the papers state, found out through the Dreyfus and the Belis trials how dangerous it is to rely on circumstantial evidence.
Prof. Felix Frankfurter, who wrote a book attempting to prove that Sacco and Vanzetti did not receive a fair trial, has approached Justice Louis D. Brandeis, it was stated, to stay the execution.
Cardinal Hayes has forwarded a gift of 10,000 in aid of the Catholic missions in Palestine. This contribution was in response to an urgent appeal from Cardinal Luigi Barlassina, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
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