To Create Fund for Jewish Social Workers’ Families

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Plans for creating a fund to provide for the widows and orphans of Jewish social workers in Europe were formulated at a meeting held here under the chairmanship of Vladimir Jabotinsky.

The fund is to be known as the Tiomkin Fund in memory of the late Russian Zionist leader, Vladimir Tiomkin.

The meeting was convened by Vladimir Jobotinsky in behalf of the League of Zionist Revisionists. In presenting the plan, Mr. Jabotinsky proposed a world association of social workers irrespective of party. The fund would be established through subscriptions from members of the association, contributions from organizations where the members are active in social work and also through legacies.

FEW JEWS IN BREADLINES OF N. Y.HIAS SURVEY SHOWS

Few Jews are to be found in the breadlines of municipal or semi-private institutions which are extending aid to New York unemployed, according to a survey made by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid and Sheltering Society of America.

The organization announced that about 150 Jewish unemployed are being served daily with food and shelter as well as aided in finding employment by the Hias. About fifty per cent. of the applicants come from cities other than New York.

“This does not mean that there are not a large number of Jews seriously affected by the present unemployment emergency,” the report of the Hias states. “The probabilities are that the Jewish quota among these unfortunate ones is practically in proportion to its numbers. The difference however, results from the well known reluctance of Jews to ask for aid except in the face of the direst necessity, as well as from the age old practice of Jewish families to take in friends, relatives and neighbors who are experiencing a sudden condition of distress.”