Representatives of 114 organizations are expected to participate in a mass meeting at Madison Square Garden Saturday evening to celebrate the granting of autonomy to Biro-Bidjan, the Jewish colonization territory in Eastern Asia.
Speakers at the meeting, which is sponsored by the ICOR (Association for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union), will include Louis Hyman, president of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union; Herbert Goldfrank, national secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union; and Earl Browder, secretary of the American Communist Party. S. Almazov, secretary of the ICOR, will preside.
Toscha Seidel, violinist, and the Freiheit chorus of 300 voices will give a musical program.
In a statement issued yesterday, sponsors of the affair pointed out the benefits to Jewry from the Russian government’s grant of autonomy to the district. “Ten thousand Jewish toilers are engaged in active pioneering in Biro-Bidjan,” the statement asserts, “and 10,000 more will be settled there in the course of this year.”
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