Lord Dudley Marley, deputy speaker of the House of Lords, sailed from London for the United States aboard the Berengaria, due here January 24th, according to a cable received by B. Charney Vladek, president of the People’s Ort Federation.
Lord Marley, who is chairman of the Parliamentary Council of the British Ort Federation, the English branch of the world wide organization carrying on the work of re-establishing Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe on a firm industrial and agricultural basis, is coming to the United States to confer and assist in a drive for funds by the American Ort.
The opening of the drive will take place at a dinner and reception to Lord Marley at the Hotel Commodore on January 29th. Serving on the committee for the dinner are Mr. Vladeck, Dr. Henry Moskowitz, chairman of the board of directors of the American Ort, Senator Robert F. Wagner, who is chairman of the Congressional Committee of the Ort; Paul Felix Warburg and Mrs. Florence R. Dolowitz, president of Women’s Association of the American Ort.
At present whip of the Labor party in the House of Lords and formerly under secretary of state for war in Ramsey MacDonald’s Labor Cabinet, Lord Marley has long been interested in labor and educational problems and in international affairs. He is considered one of the outstanding authorities on Russia in England and has but recently returned from Moscow on a trip made on behalf of Ort.
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