More Jewish Workers Join Strike in Lodz

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

One thousand three hundred more Jewish textile workers have joined the ranks of the strike now in progress here.

All efforts made by the government to settle the strike by arbitration have thus far brought no results.

HADASSAH SPENT $500,000 IN PALESTINE HEALTH WORK DURING 1926

American Jewish women spent $500,000 in 1926 through Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, on improving health conditions in Palestine, according to a report issued by the national headquarters of the Hadassah.

More than $450,000 of this sum was used by the Hadassah Medical Organization, which maintains four hospitals and dispensaries, an X-Ray institute, a nurses’ training school, medical circuits in rural districts, medical inspection of immigrants and school children and anti-trachoma campaigns. The rest of the money went to the support of fifteen infant welfare stations, nine prenatal and postnatal clinics, penny luncheons in schools and Ha-Ishah, a woman’s magazine. Hadassah’s service is open to Christians, Moslems and Jews.

In addition to the actual money spent on medical social work, materials, chiefly garments and linens, valued at about $50,000, were sent during the year to the Hadassah institutions and twenty other organizations in Palestine. The merchandise was contributed by 700 sewing circles.

The Junior Hadassah raised $30,000 for a rural school which it maintains in Palestine.

During the year the membership of Hadassah increased to 42,000.