Organization of convention machinery and presentation of Goldie Meyerson’s report by Deborah Rothbard comprised the program of today’s session of the fifth biennial convention of the Pioneer Women’s Organization of America, which opened here last night.
Miss Rothbard was here as a representative of the organization’s national executive body, in place of Miss Meyerson, who has gone to Palestine.
Mrs. M. Brooker of New York City presided. Mrs. R. Livshitz of Montreal was appointed Yiddish secretary of the convention, while Miss Bebe Halperin of New York City was named English secretary.
90 CLUBS NOW
Miss Myerson’s report shows that the organization has grown from seventy clubs in this country in 1932 to ninety at present.
The report deals at length with participation of Pioneer Women in the activities of the Jewish National Fund; their contributions toward the political fund of the Poale Zion-Zeire Zion Party; and their cultural efforts within their organization.
Miss Myerson gives particular attention to the work of new English speaking clubs and to educational activities among younger girls’ groups; also to the cooperation members have given to the Poale Zion-Zeire Zion Party and to the National Labor Committee.
OPENING SESSION
The convention was greeted by David Pinski, Jewish writer; Dora Rothbart, acting secretary; David Wertheim, national secretary of the United Jewish Labor Party; Mrs. David Bloom, New York City Women’s League for Palestine; Maurice Cohen, secretary of the Young Poale Zion Alliance, and Dr. David Rubelsky, western manager of the National Labor Committee for Palestine. A cabled greeting from Joseph Sprinzak, Palestine labor leader, was read.
Elisheva Kaplan, member of the executive of the Women’s Council of the Histadruth, Central Palestine Labor Federation, declared that women’s role in the upbuilding of Palestine is steadily becoming more important.
“At all times women had an intuition as to when the nation was in peril and through their womanly power in the home brought hope and encouragement,” she declared. “This is the last attempt of a desperate people to rebuild itself. That is the reason labor in Palestine fights so tenaciously to hold its own position there.”
The business sessions of the convention began today at the Hotel Graemere and will continue for four days.
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