Post-war Rehabilitation to Be Discussed at General Assembly of Welfare Funds

The participation of Federal welfare agencies in the gigantic task of post-war planning and rehabilitation will be discussed by Charles P. Taft, assistant director of the Government’s Defense, Health and Welfare Services, at the tenth annual General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, it was announced today by Sidney Hollander, president of the Council.

The General Assembly, which will be held at the Hotel Statler in Cleveland, will open on Saturday evening, Jan. 16, and close on Monday evening, Jan. 18, Mr. Taft, who is also a member of the President’s War Relief Control Board. will be the principal speaker at the Sunday evening session. Mr. Taft’s address will cover the field of social welfare planning and post-war rehabilitation with particular emphasis on the part that Government agencies are planning to play in this work.

It is expected that more than 400 Jewish welfare leaders, representing the Council’s 224 member agencies in 187 cities in the United States and Canada, will attend the three-day conference, which marks the and of a decade of Council service to local Jewish communities. The Assembly has been an annual event since 1934 when representatives of the 17 agencies then affiliated with the Council met in Chicago to map the Council’s present program.

The Assembly will hear reports from the Council’s Committee on Civic Protective Organizations, which has been conducting negotiations with the four major defense agencies in this country looking towards the establishment of a centralized operating agency for all American defense programs. and from the Committee on Fund-Raising Policies, which has made a detailed study of the war chest movement and its relationship to local Jewish federations and welfare funds. Copies of these reports will be sent in advance to all delegates so that they may familiarize themselves with the contents and be able to take an active part in the floor discussions.