Two hundred delegates from cities of Northern Ohio accepted the task of raising Ohio’s quota of $1,000,000 in the United Jewish Campaign.
David A. Brown addressed the conference.
No definite date for the opening of the campaign was set. The quotas for the individual cities will be fixed by a special committee. A regional committee was elected, headed by John Anisfield, E. S. Halle, Vice-Chairman; S. Goldhamer, Secretary and Max Myers, Treasurer. Chairmen for the cities were named as follows: Cleveland, Irwin Lesser; Toledo, Harry Levison; Akron, L. D. Friedberg, Youngstown, Isaac Goldsmith; Canton, Darwin Luntz; Sandusky, E. Kaplan; Mansfield, L. Freundlich; East Liverpool, Dr. S. Rich; Lorain, Dr. I. Glicksman. E. M. Baker of Cleveland presided over the conference.
The Society for Ethical Culture, of which Felix Adler is the founder, announced that it would build a $1,000,000 suburban high school in the northern part of New York City.
Plans for the building were drawn by Robert D. Kohn, architect and President of the society, and Clarence S. Stein, Chairman of the State Housing Commission.
Albert Weisbord, and the United Front Committee directing the Passaic, N. J. textile strike, accepted the offer of a committee headed by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York to act as mediators between the strike leaders and the mill owners, Charles F. H. Johnson, Vice President of the Botany Worsted Mills, spokesman for the mill owners, announced that the owners would not accept the Wise committee as mediators.
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