A message from the Working Women’s Council of Palestine, urging “superhuman efforts” in behalf of Zionism during this time of crisis, was read tonight to 300 delegates attending the opening session of a four-day national convention of the Pioneer Women’s Organization, group which for 13 years has been active in assisting Palestine educational institutions.
The delegates, representing 170 women’s clubs in the United States and Canada, heard a report on the organization’s progress since its founding in 1926, delivered by Miss Sara Feder, national secretary. Miss Feder reported a membership of 10,000, who were interested in the problem of women’s participation in the rebuilding of the Jewish Homeland in Palestine. She said the organization had helped to found and maintain in Palestine nine training farms and a series of workshops, cooperatives and schools where girls and women, many of them recent refugees, are assisted in adjusting themselves to practical aspects of life in the Holy Land.
Scheduled speakers tonight included Israel Mereminsky, general secretary of the Palestine Jewish Labor Federation (Histadruth), who recently arrived from Palestine for a six-month stay in the United States.
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