U.S. Labor Group Sails for Zion Survey

Sixty Jewish pioneer settlers, including a delegation of the Jewish National Workers Alliance and fifty prospective settlers, departed for Poland and Palestine yesterday on the Gdynia-America liner Pulaski.

The ten representatives of the Alliance will stop in Poland for nine days to make a study in Grochow, Lwow and other centers, of the methods of training “chalutzim” or young pioneers for settlement in Palestine. Poland has been sending the largest number of settlers to Palestine in recent years and the American organization is seeking to introduce in America the Polish training course used to prepare young men for life in Palestine.

From Poland the delegation will go to Palestine, where it will be received by Histadruth, the Workers Labor Organization of Palestine. A four-week survey will be made of all the possibilities for colonization and a report made to the American organization. The fifty Jewish passengers on the Pulaski who are accompanying the delegation will seek to purchase orange plantations for immediate settlement.

“In the past year there has been a remarkable increase in the number of American Jews leaving for Palestine,” said Sol Bernstein, head of the Alliance delegation and secretary of the New York Committee. “This may be attributed to the great strides made in Palestine industry and agriculture. Conditions in Germany, moreover, have emphasized the necessity for building up a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and American Jewish youth particularly is responding to this need.”

The worker’s delegation included the following: Meyer Soloff, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; Abram Saratt, Fall River, Mass.; Morris Plomjack, Brooklyn; Morton Jacobson, Chicago; Sam and Eva Klapp, Jersey City, N. J.; Mrs. Fleiderblum, Yonkers, N. Y., and Isidor Freilach and Morris Cohen, both of New York. The delegation will return to New York about October 15.