United Palestine Appeal Contributors Asked to Raise $350,000 in 12 Days

Contributors to the United Palestine Appeal were called upon to raise $350.000 for Palestine in the next twelve days in a resolution adopted at a conference of the United Palestine Appeal at the Hotel Pennsylvania after an all-day session yesterday.

The money collected will be used to relieve the unemployment situation in Palestine and to speed progress in the rebuilding of the country.

Leading contributors to the appeal in New York City and surrounding states participated in the conference. Addresses were delivered by Judge William M. Lewis of Philadelphia. National Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal and Morris Rothenberg, Acting President of the Zionist Organization of America. The resolution adopted provides a quota of $350,000 to be raised by the redemption of pledges to the appeal made during the past year.

Speaking of the new responsibility which faces American Jewry in the work of the upbuilding of Palestine because of the influence they wielded in introducing many reforms for Palestine work at the recent Fifteenth Zionist Congres held at Basle, Mr. Rothenberg said:

“In view of the fact that the Americans were largely responsible for the adoption of a new program by the Zionist Organization whose main planks are economic retrenchment and administrative efficiency in Palestine, it stands to reason that American Jews will be largely responsible for the execution of the reforms which they recommended. American responbility to Palestine, both in personnel and in money, can do much toward strengthening the Jewish position in Palestine,” he said.

The resolution stated:

“Whereas, the Fifteenth Zionist Congress has emphasized the critical economic, and the necessity for immediate funds to relieve unemployment, and otherwise aid the Jewish pioneers, and has stressed the fact that workers in Palestine are in urgent need of the financial support which has been promised to them by American Jewry, and Whereas, the Jews of America have assumed a definite moral obligation to the Jewish pioneers engaged in the rebuilding of Palestine as the National Jewish Homeland by making certain pledges to relieve the economic depression in that country.

“Therefore, be it Resolved, that American Jewry be called upon to redeem its pledges to the United Palestine Appeal and to raise $350,000 in cash before the first of October in the payment of pledges made, so that the distress of the Jewish placeers in Palestine may be refered, and proper advantage taken of the new opportunities offered to acceferate the progress frebuilding the Homeland.”