A decision to raise the amount of $300,000 to aid the Jewish labor institutions in Palestine was adopted at a conference of the Jewish labor groups to inaugurate the Unions’ Palestine Campaign. Five hundred delegates representing various unions, Workmen’s Circle branches, Poale Zion, Zeiri Zion and branches of the National Workers Alliance attended the conference held at the Rand School, New York City.
Twenty-one thousand dollars in cash and $75,000 in pledges were raised toward the $300,000 fund. Max Pine was elected chairman of the campaign, A. Shiplakoff, treasurer, and A. Hemlin, secretary. A committee of 100 was chosen to head the campaign.
The labor groups listened to addresses by Berl Locker, secretary of the Polae Zion, Dov Hos and Israel Mereminski, Palestine labor delegates, David Pinski, Morris Sigman, Joseph Barondess and Rachel Yanaith Benzvi and others.
The conference adopted a resolution expressing solidarity with the Jewish workers in Palestine. Another resolution condemned the anti-Jewish excesses in Roumania. A mass meeting was held Sunday night in Cooper Union Hall, presided over by Max Zaritzki, president of the International Capmakers and Millinery Union.
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