The first session of the 29th annual convention of the Federation of Polish Jews in America, opening Saturday night at the Hotel Astor, was scheduled to be turned into a protest meeting against the persecution of Jews in Poland.
More than 1,000 delegates and guests from all parts of the United States and Canada were to hear speakers including Samuel Untermyer, Jeremiah T. Mahoney, Charles Edward Russell, author, and Benjamin Winter, president of the federation. Messages of solidarity were to be exchanged with simultaneous meetings of Polish Jews in Montreal and Toronto, Canada, in Mexico City, in four South American cities, and elsewhere throughout the world.
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