The difficult situation faced by Jewish labor because of the fact that large numbers of unskilled women and youngsters are unable to find jobs was stressed today by Bernard Weil, secretary of the Jewish Trade Union Commission, addressing 120 delegates representing 3,000 organized Jewish workers in Paris.
The Commission is endeavouring to rehabilitate Jewish labor, to reduce the number on relief and also to increase their contribution to the war effort and strengthen the solidarity between Jewish and non-Jewish workers in France. The Commission has also initiated the reopening of labor cooperatives and the workshops of persons who were deported.
Marcel Brunet, secretary of the Union of Paris Trade Unions, assured the meeting that the French Federation of Labor would give the Commission its full support. M. Melamed, representative of the ORT, emphasized the cooperation between the ORT and the Jewish trade unionists.
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