Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevlet, addressing the twenty-third annual convention of the Women’s League of the United Synagogues of America last night, appealed to the 300,000 Jewish women of the 450 sisterhoods of the League to enroll for training for auxiliary services in hospitals and other welfare agencies. “It may be that uniformed auxiliaries will be needed in the grim days ahead,” Mrs. Roosevelt said, speaking on “Women in Defense.”
Mrs. Samuel Spiegel of New York was re-elected president of the League which concluded its four-day session today. Over 1,000 delegates from the United States and Canada attended the convention which was addressed by a number of speakers on problems concerning Jewish education, religion, and the Jewish position in the world today.
In an interview with the J.T.A. correspondent here, Mrs. Roosevelt said that elimination of discrimination in employment is a problem of education which must be directed at employees as well as employers, since the former are as guilty as the latter in showing prejudices.
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