Unification of all campaigns conducted among Jewish labor organizations in America for Jewish activity in Palestine, Soviet Russia, Poland and other foreign lands, is demanded in a resolution adopted at the thirty-fourth annual convention of the Workmen’s Circle, which concluded its sessions Saturday after electing N. Chanin as president. J. Baskin was reelected general secretary and B. Levitan, national treasurer.
The convention, which represented more than 70,000 organized members of the Workmen’s Circle throughout the country, voted to contribute $61,000 to various social and labor organizations and campaigns. Four hundred delegates signed a petition demanding freedom for the Yiddish language in Palestine.
DUBIOUS ON ZIONISM
Expressing satisfaction at the fact that Palestine has in the past few years become a place where many oppressed Jews from European countries can find refuge, the convention emphasized in its resolution that it does not believe that Zionism can solve the Jewish question. “The Jewish working masses in Palestine deserve our attention, but not to any larger extent than the needy Jewish masses in other countries,” the resolution states.
Urging that the Geverkschaften campaigns for Palestine be united with the campaign conducted here by the ORT to help the Jews in Poland and Soviet Russia, the convention instructed its new Executive to call a conference of all organizations engaged in soliciting relief funds in America for needy working masses in Europe, and to insist that all these organizations unite into one large body.
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