Mayor LaGuardia was one of the principal speakers at the funeral services held today for Mbrris C. Feinstone, Jewish labor leader, who died this week from a heart attack. He was buried today at the Workmen’s Circle cemetery here.
The services were attended by many civil and military officials and by leaders of labor unions. Other speakers included Newbold Morris, president of the city council; Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor; Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward; Alexander Kahn, manager of the Forward. Also officials of the Selective Service Board of which Feinstone was a member.
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