U.S. Labor Zionist Convention Advocates Foundation for Day Schools

The Labor Zionist Organization of America-Poale Zion, at its convention here today, called on the Zionist movement to establish a foundation that will set up modern communal Hebrew day schools in American and Canadian cities and suburbs where such schools do not exist. This type of day school, the resolution said, provided the best answer to the threat of assimilation.

Another resolution instructed the executive committee to devote its immediate attention to the problem of Negro-Jewish relations including patterns of both lawlessness and discrimination, and to initiate discussion between responsible Jewish and Negro leadership to create greater understanding of mutual problems.

The convention also instructed the executive committee to explore the possibility of organizing an annual group of young men and women, college graduates or the equivalent, to give one year’s service in Israel. Hyman R. Faine of Scarsdale, New York, was elected president of the organization. He is a labor lawyer and national executive secretary of the American Guild of Musical Artists.

PINCUS APPEALS TO SUPPORT U. J. A. AS MEANS TO JEWISH UNITY

Louis Pincus, treasurer of the Jewish Agency, addressing the convention, urged the support of serious thinking on Jewish destiny as well as practical activity in Israel. “Without going into the legal issues raised by Mr. Talbott’s letter to the American Council for Judaism,” he said, “for the American Jewish community there is the question of its historic and cultural relationship to Israel and whether it (the American Jewish community) in practice recognizes the indivisibility of destiny of the Jewish people as a whole. The Labor Zionist task is to put this question in the forefront of Jewish thinking and not to sweep it under the carpet.”

The Jewish Agency leader pointed out that “for all Zionists, practical activity in Israel and for Israel is essential more particularly in a period when pro-Israel activity is so largely done by persons outside the Zionist movement. Therefore, the UJA is to be supported both as a means to greater Jewish unity and as an end by directly doing the constructive work of immigration and absorption.”